This book draws together some of the most important contributions from Lawrence H. Officer, a leading economic historian and expert in international finance, and includes a number of hard to find papers from a wide range of sources.

1. The Optimality of Pure Competition in the Capacity Problem  2. Monopoly and Monopolistic Competition in the International Transportation Industry  3. Discrimination in the International Transportation Industry  4. Demand Conditions under Multidimensional Pricing  5. Are International Monetary Fund Quotas Unfavorable to Less-Developed Countries?: A Normative Historical Analysis  6. An Assessment of the United Nations Scale of Assessments from a Developing-Country Standpoint  7. An Assessment of the United Nations Scale of Assessments, 1946-1994  8. Financing the United Nations and International Monetary Fund: A Country-Group Analysis  9. The Bullionist Controversy: A Time-Series Analysis  10. The U.S. Specie Standard, 1792-1932: Some Monetarist Arithmetic  11. The Quantity Theory in New England, 1703-1749: New Data to Analyze an Old Question  12. Reserve-Asset Preferences in the Crisis Zone, 1958-67  13. What Was the Price of Gold Then?: Importance, Measurement, and History  14. What Was the Price of Gold Then?: A Data Study