No full-scale study of the scope and significance of anarchistic writings and teachings in the United States has ever been undertaken by an American.1 The bulk of American references to anarchists and anarchism have been confined to three principal sources: (1) emotional polemics and frankly sensational accounts;

Foreword to the First (1953) Edition By Harry Elmer Barnes

The Genealogy of Josiah Warren

“In an unmarked grave in Lot 2078, Eglantine Path, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, are interred the remains of Josiah Warren, a 19th century philosopher, inventor, and founder of Utopian villages.” So begins a short manuscript on the ancestry of Josiah Warren by a first cousin, three times removed, Lyman O. Warren, M.D., now (1970) of St. Petersburg, Florida.

1. ANARCHIST SOURCE MATERIALS

a. Manuscript Collections

Baskette Collection, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois.

Labadie Collection, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Library of the Workingmen’s Institute, New Harmony, Indiana.

Suffolk County Historical Society, Riverhead, Long Island, New York.

b. Bibliographies and Encyclopedias

ADAMS, FREDERICK B., JR.

Abbot, Francis, 204, 206, 232

Aberdeen, Lord, 90

Adams, F. B., Jr., 280

Adams, Grace, 73, 279

Adams, Pres. John, 133

Adams, Samuel, 175

Addams, Jane, 243

Albion, R. G., 90

Alcott, Bronson, 114

Alexander, A. J., 185

Alexander II, Czar, 219, 291

Allen, Charles A., 167

Altgeld, J. P., 243, 264, 266

GOLD AND THE
GOLD STANDARD

The Story of Gold Money
Past, Present and Future

BY

EDWIN WALTER KEMMERER

Emeritus Professor of International Finance
Princeton University

FIRST EDITION

McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC.
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1944

Ludwig von Mises Institute

Mises.org

ISBN: 9781610161749

Prefatory Note

At the end of the war, this world will be confronted with the problem of rehabilitating its monetary systems and of thereby bringing order out of the monetary chaos that has been created. Many different kinds of monetary standards will have their advocates, and the debate will be a vigorous one in terms of both light and heat. Early discussions of the problem should contribute to the formation of an intelligent public opinion. It is with the thought of making such a contribution that this book is being written.