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“Power Relations and Monetary Ideas: The Case of the Gold-Exchange Standard in India”

Ghislain Deleplace
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For de Cecco power relations are central in the working of the pre-WWI international gold standard. He gives an illustration of that in the chapter of Money and Empire devoted to the relationship between Britain and India, where the gold-exchange standard is presented as a way for Britain to get hold of India’s trade surplus with the rest of the world in order to balance her own international accounts. On the contrary, Keynes praised the Indian gold-exchange standard as a system which not only allowed stabilising India’s relations with the outside world but also pointed the way to a better-regulated monetary system for any country, in the line of Ricardo’s Ingot Plan nearly one century older. The same notion may thus be seen alternatively as a powerful tool of domination or as a good practical idea. The paper describes how Lindsay adapted Ricardo’s scheme to India and contrasts de Cecco’s and Keynes’s interpretations of the Indian gold-exchange standard, before suggesting that monetary ideas can prevail in their own right when they are theoretically well-founded and practically feasible, independently of the power relations they may reflect. Publication: Deleplace, G. (2023 a), “Power Relations and Monetary Ideas: The Case of the Gold-Exchange Standard in India,” Review of Political Economy, 35 (2): 394-406. hal-04253424
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Ghislain Deleplace. “Power Relations and Monetary Ideas: The Case of the Gold-Exchange Standard in India”. 19ème Congrès annuel de l’Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell’Economia Politica, Viterbo, 28-30/06/2022, STOREP, Jun 2022, Viterbo, Italy. ⟨hal-04429446⟩
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