Rezension: Doz. Dr. Richard Kerschagl: Die mitteleuropäischen Währungen und Notenbanken

Helene Lieser’s 1930 review of Richard Kerschagl’s Die mitteleuropäischen Währungen und Notenbanken offers a brief assessment of the compilation’s practical and documentary value. Its opening judgment establishes usefulness at home and abroad as the criterion of appraisal:

Die Sammlung entspricht sicherlich einem Bedürfnis der Praxis im In- und Auslande.

English translation: The collection certainly meets a practical need at home and abroad.

Lieser locates its particular strength in making institutional evidence accessible:

Ihr Wert wird durch ausführlichen Abdruck von Motivenberichten, stenographischen Protokollen von Parlamentssitzungen und Ausschußberichten — alles schwer zugängliches, aber wichtiges Material — wesentlich erhöht.

English translation: Its value is substantially enhanced by the extensive reproduction of explanatory memoranda, stenographic records of parliamentary sessions, and committee reports—all material that is difficult to access but important.

The closing reference to chronological and subject indexes completes this emphasis on usability. The review’s argument concerns access to monetary-policy documentation, without developing a substantive interpretation of the currencies or issuing banks themselves.