ABSTRACT
Jacob Viner stated in 1937 that international capital movements had not yet found their historian. Things have progressed since then, but not substantially. In particular, there do not seem to have appeared, since the publication of Arthur Bloomfield’s Princeton paper, ‘Short-term capital movements under the pre-1914 gold standard’ many contributions which try to shed more light on the subject, on the basis of research conducted in the archives of banks and central banks.
