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On Stabilizing the Dollar

Edward T. Peters

The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1919 · Volume 33 · Issue 4

DOI: 10.2307/1885276

Abstract

Inconveniences of an unstable value unit, 652. — Dr. Fisher's proposed remedy, 652. — Would his goods standard be stable? 658. — Unstable relation between goods and labor, 660. — Value dependent on human estimation, 661. — This not stable as to goods or as to labor, 665. — Can present monetary units be stabilized? 667. — Control of issues of paper money, 667. — Control of gold production, 668. — How would Fisher's plan affect the public debt? 670.

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