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When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflat
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- ISBN
- 1586489941
- EAN
- 9781586489946
- Binding
- TP
- Book Title
- When Money Dies : The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Publisher
- Public Affairs
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Business & Economics, History
- Topic
- Economic History, Europe / Germany, Social History
- Item Width
- 5.6in
- Item Weight
- 9.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nation's currency depreciates beyond recovery. In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the German republic was all but reduced to a barter economy. Expensive cigars, artworks, and jewels were routinely exchanged for staples such as bread; a cinema ticket could be bought for a lump of coal; and a bottle of paraffin for a silk shirt. People watched helplessly as their life savings disappeared and their loved ones starved. Germany's finances descended into chaos, with severe social unrest in its wake. Money may no longer be physically printed and distributed in the voluminous quantities of 1923. However, "quantitative easing," that modern euphemism for surreptitious deficit financing in an electronic era, can no less become an assault on monetary discipline. Whatever the reason for a country's deficit -- necessity or profligacy, unwillingness to tax or blindness to expenditure -- it is beguiling to suppose that if the day of reckoning is postponed economic recovery will come in time to prevent higher unemployment or deeper recession. What if it does not? Germany in 1923 provides a vivid, compelling, sobering moral tale.
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Public Affairs
ISBN-10
1586489941
ISBN-13
9781586489946
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102915897
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Book Title
When Money Dies : The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Economic History, Europe / Germany, Social History
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Business & Economics, History
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
9.3 Oz
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"Daily Express" (London) "Engrossing and sobering." Allen Mattich, "Wall Street Journal," October 1, 2010 "One of the most blood chilling economics books I've ever read." "Wall Street Journal," January 30, 2011 "Every body ought to read this book. But baby boomers must." "The Guardian" "a brilliant account of how Germany's Weimar Republic was consumed by hyperinflation.", Daily Express (London) "Engrossing and sobering." Allen Mattich, Wall Street Journal , October 1, 2010 "One of the most blood chilling economics books I've ever read." Wall Street Journal , January 30, 2011 "Every body ought to read this book. But baby boomers must." The Guardian "a brilliant account of how Germany's Weimar Republic was consumed by hyperinflation."
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2010-934662
Dewey Decimal
330.943085
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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