An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

7   Monetary and banking thought, III: the struggle over the currency school

7.1  The trauma of 1825

7.2  The emergence of the currency principle

7.3  Rechartering the Bank of England

7.4  The crisis of 1837 and the currency school controversy

7.5  The crisis of 1839 and the escalation of the currency school controversy

7.6  The renewed threat to the gold standard

7.7  Triumph of the currency school: Peel’s Act of 1844

7.8  Tragedy in triumph for the currency school: the aftermath

7.9  De facto victory for the banking school

7.10  Currency and banking school thought on the Continent

7.11  Notes