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東文研セミナー "The DAMIN program and the problem of gold and silver between USA, Europe and Asia (c.1860-1900)" が開催されました

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 7月10日(木)、フランス高等師範学校(Ecole Normale Superieure)教授で訪問研究員として東洋文化研究所に滞在中のGeorges Depeyrot氏によるセミナー”The DAMIN program and the problem of gold and silver between USA, Europe and Asia (c.1860-1900)”が開催された。
 19世紀、北アメリカにおける銀の生産量が拡大し、大量の銀が主としてロンドン市場に流れ込んだ結果、ロンドンにおける金と銀の交換比率が大きく変わった。Depeyrot氏は、この事実の検証とそれが世界各地の通貨システムに与えた影響を考察する共同研究を主宰しており、この研究の組織や方法と現在の研究の到達点について説明した。経済史やグローバルヒストリーの観点からみて、きわめて興味深く意義深い研究である。出席者の数は必ずしも多くなかったが、報告の後、親密で濃密な質疑応答がおこなわれた。


報告者:Georges Depeyrot (Visiting Fellow at IASA, Directeur de recherche, Ecole Normale Superieure, France)

報告題目:The DAMIN program and the problem of gold and silver between USA, Europe and Asia (c.1860-1900)

日時:7月10日(木)16:00-17:30

場所:東洋文化研究所3階第一会議室


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概要:
At the beginning of the 19th century, the monetary systems were composed of gold and silver coins, linked by a stable relation, based on the relative commercial value of the two metals (1 g of gold = 15.5 g of silver). If the value of one metal increased or decreased, the relation between the coins was affected. To avoid the difficulty, Great Britain adopted a monetary system based on gold in 1821. In the middle of the century, the gold rush and the arrival of large quantities of gold disturbed the monetary system and decreased the value of gold. However, several countries maintained a bi-metallic system (gold and silver). In 1865, several countries created the Latin Monetary Union in order to construct an international monetary union giving legal tender to the coins of each participant. It was the prototype of the actual euro. The exploitation of new silver mines in the 1860's produced immense quantities of silver. Several solutions were imagined by the International Monetary Conferences to stabilize the monetary system. One of these was the transfers of silver in Asia to monetize China and Japan. Systematically, all the countries adopted the monometallic system, including Japan in 1897.

The DAMIN program analyses the monetary crisis that ended the monometallic system and the first real monetary union. Details, PDFs, videos, on www.anr-damin.net

www.damin.net



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登録日時:TueJul1503:07:462014
登録者 :羽田・黒田・野久保(撮影)・藤岡
掲載期間:20140710 - 20141010
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