Kemmerer-Vissering Report on Resumption of Gold Payments¶


Kind	commission or official report
Producer	Kemmerer and Vissering
Coverage	1924-1925
Works using it	5

Debates¶

Debate	Works
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking	3
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform	1
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion	1
Historiographical approaches	1
Homelands, separate development, decentralisation and removals	1
Industrialisation, protection and industrial structure	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination	1

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Arndt (1928)	Kemmerer-Vissering Commission, Report on Resumption of Gold Payments (U.G. 13-'25) and Vissering's report on State Bank	1925	Source for the gold-parity finding, the case against a State Bank and recommendations for amending the Reserve Bank's powers.
Breckenridge (1995)	Kemmerer-Vissering Commission (1924-25) evidence and inquiry	Dec 1924-1925	Evidence by Evans's associate Warner shows how the 'metallic mystique' was presented to officials and the commission's endorsement of gold.
Houghton and Dagut (1973)	Kemmerer and Vissering, Resumption of Gold Payments, U.G. 12/1925	1925	Foreign experts' advice on tying the currency to gold or sterling in 1925.
Mazanderani (2012)	Kemmerer-Vissering Report	c. 1924-25	Cited as a probable reason why the government chose to remain on gold in 1931.
Westerfield (1929)	Report of the Kemmerer-Vissering commission of experts on resumption of gold payments	c. 1920s	Cited in the review as the source of the recommendation to found the South African Reserve Bank on the Federal Reserve model; the review does not say how Arndt uses it.