There must be people on here that are aware of Roy Jastram’s fascinating work “The Golden Constant”. Its a book sized piece on the gold/commodity ratio from 1580 until 1976. Its a great read if you know about Mises’ theory on the interest rate and the Gibson’s paradox observation (that empirically supports the Misesian idea).
I have updated this work to the modern day and its a very interesting data set. Too much to describe in this brief post.
Why my post. Well I am an academic but not an economist. I want to share my work with someone who perhaps work with my observations and putative explanations and make a paper or thesis out of it. Its possible that the observations might contain a quantitative estimate of the cost to society of being on a fiat standard and hance having no limit on state interference.
So if you you are looking for publishing ideas in economics and interested in this area drop me a line and I can share some data.
Gasman