When money dies : the nightmare of deficit spending, devaluation, and hyperinflation in Weimar Germany / Adam Fergusson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fergusson, Adam.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inflation (Finance)--Germany--History.

Inflation (Finance).

Germany--Economic conditions--1918-1945.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : PublicAffairs, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Ge

Contents:

Contents; Note to the 2010 Edition; Prologue; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

First published 1975 by William Kimber & Co. Ltd.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-260) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-78910-4

9786612789106

1-58648-995-X

OCLC:

670411887