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

Title
When money dies : the nightmare of deficit spending, devaluation, and hyperinflation in Weimar Germany / Adam Fergusson.
Author
Fergusson, Adam, 1932-
Publication
New York : PublicAffairs, 2010, c1975.

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Description
xiv, 269 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
Presents a history of the 1923 German economic crisis that made the currency worthless, reduced the country to a barter economy, and left severe social unrest in its wake.
Subject
  • Inflation (Finance) > Germany > History
  • Germany > Economic conditions
  • Germany > Economic conditions > 1918-1945
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-260) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Note to the 2010 ed. -- Prologue -- Gold for iron -- Joyless streets -- The bill presented -- Delirium of milliards -- The slide to hyperinflation -- Sunner of '22 -- The Habsburg inheritance -- Autumn paper-chase -- Ruhrkampf -- Summer of '23 -- Havenstein -- The bottom of the abyss -- Schacht -- Unemployment breaks out -- The wounds are bared -- Epilogue.
ISBN
  • 9781586489946 (pbk.)
  • 1586489941 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2010934662
OCLC
  • 651915065
  • SCSB-12412994
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library