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When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Hyper-inflation (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for When Money DiesIn 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 Weimar Republic was all but reduced to a barter economy. Expensive possessions such as cigars, artworks and jewels were routinely exchanged for everyday necessities such as bread; a cinema ticket could be bought for a lump of coal, and a bottle of paraffin fo...
Full description- Publisher: Old Street Publishing
- Published: 06 July 2010
- Format: Paperback 288 pages
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- Categories: Economic History | European History | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000
- ISBN 13: 9781906964443 ISBN 10: 1906964440
- Sales rank: 19,316
Full description for When Money Dies
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 Weimar Republic was all but reduced to a barter economy. Expensive possessions such as cigars, artworks and jewels were routinely exchanged for everyday necessities such as bread; a cinema ticket could be bought for a lump of coal, and a bottle of paraffin for a silk shirt. In desperation, the Bavarian Prime Minister submitted a Bill to the Reichsrat proposing that gluttony be made a penal offence. Since its first publication in 1975, When Money Dies has become the classic history of these bizarre and frightening times. Combining excellent analysis with numerous eyewitness accounts by ordinary people struggling to survive, it deals ultimately with the human side of inflation: why governments resort to it, the dismal, corruptive pestilence it visits on their citizens, the agonies of recovery, and the dark, long-term legacy. And at a time of acute economic strain, it provides an urgent warning against the addictive dangers of printing money - shorthand for deficit financing - as a soft option for governments faced with growing unrest and unemployment.
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