Why did countries abandon the Gold Standard?

A historical look at why Britain, at the time the center of the banking world, abandoned the Gold Standard. After WWI, it became harder for Britain to deflate its economy and incomes to compete in the world export markets and this nullified a key mechanism by which the Gold Standard operated. Eventually a run on the British pound caused the Bank of England to go off the Gold Standard.

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