Documents concerning the indemnity of 1870-1871
By: Georges Depeyrot
Contributors: Giffen, Robert, 1837-1910
Series: Documents and studies on 19th c. monetary history. France; Moneta -- 145
Publisher: Moneta
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Wetteren
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9789491384134
Subjects: Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871; Reparations; War reparations
Other titles: Memorandum on the cost of the Franco-German war of 1870-71.
Description: The payment of the French indemnity to Germany after the 1871 defeat played an important role in the bimetallic question and in the German shift to the gold standard. this volume includes four studies on the subject of the payment and its consequences written by economists and the French Minister of Finance, R. Giffen.
Notes: The first work was originally published for private circulation in March 1872 under the title: Memorandum on the cost of the Franco-German war of 1870-71, then included in Essays in Finance (London : George Bell and Sons, 1880) and later in Economic Inquiries and Studies (London : George Bell and Sons, 1904), pages 1-74; the second work was originally published in the Journal des économistes, 3rd series, tome 36, pages 250-301 (Paris, 1874); the third work consists of pages 81-114 of The Franco-German War indemnity and its economic results (London : Harrison & Sons, 1913); the fourth work was originally published in the Review of economics and statistics, volume 1, number 4, October 1919, pages 269-281.

Includes bibliographical references.

English and French.
Table of contents: title: The cost of the Franco-German war of 1870-71 / Sir Robert Giffen; title: Rapport sur le payement de l'indemnité de guerre et sur les opérations de change qui en ont été la conséquence / Léon Say; title: The Franco-German war indemnity and its economic results / Horace Handley O'Farrell; title: The French Indemnity of 1871 and its effects / Arthur E. Monroe.