Bordo, Michael D. <br/><br/>
Reserves and Baskets / 
Michael D. Bordo, Harold James. 
 - Cambridge, Mass.  National Bureau of Economic Research  2011. 
 - 1 online resource:  illustrations (black and white); 
 - NBER working paper series  no. w17492 .
 - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)  no. w17492. .
<br/><br/> October 2011. 
<br/><br/> We discuss three well known plans that were offered in the twentieth century to provide an artificial replacement for gold and key currencies as international reserves: Keynes' Bancor, the SDR and the Ecu( predecessor to the euro).The latter two of these reserve substitutes were institutionalized but neither replaced the dollar as the principal medium of international reserve. 
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