Literally. In Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, published in 1992, I argued that the deflationary engine that was the gold standard was a key cause of the 1930’s depression, and that abandoning it opened the door to recovery.
我曾写过关于欧洲和金本位的书。在1992年出版的《金色的羁绊：金本位和大萧条》（Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression）中，我指出，金本位这一通缩机制是20世纪30年代大萧条的主要罪魁之一，而抛弃金本位打开了复苏之门。