When Money Dies: the Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany

When Money Dies: the Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar GermanyWhen Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany by Adam Fergusson
ISBN: 9781586489946
Published by PublicAffairs on 2010
Genres: Business & Economics, Economic History, Finance, General, Inflation, History, Europe, Germany
Pages: 269

Len's Summary: The post-WWI deadly hyperinflation that ruined the German middle class and brought the Weimar Republic near to collapse until rescued by the Dawes Plan of 1924.

The Downfall of Money: Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class

The Downfall of Money: Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle ClassThe Downfall of Money: Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class by Fred Taylor
ISBN: 9781620402368
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA on September 17th 2013
Genres: Business & Economics, Finance, General, Inflation, Money & Monetary Policy, History, Europe, Germany
Pages: 416

Len's Summary: Traces the hyperinflation of 1923 back to 1914 and war-time inflationary financing, and finds that what doomed the first German democracy (the Weimar Republic) was deflation, not inflation.