He Liping

Hyperinflation

A World History

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on research results of contemporary economists, media reports and historical works, this book will be the most comprehensive narrative of all major events of hyperinflation worldwide from the turn of the first millennium to the mid-2010s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780367529208
• ISBN-10: 0367529203
• Artikelnr.: 59560914

Autorenporträt

Liping He is Professor at the School of Business and Economics, Beijing Normal University. His research interests include international finance and economics.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledgements Chapter I
Introduction: Basic Concepts of Hyperinflation What is Hyperinflation? What
Causes Hyperinflation? What are the Impacts of Hyperinflation? How to End
Hyperinflation? Chapter II Monetary Adventures before the 20th Century
Money and Inflation in the Ancient World Wang Mang: A Most Bizarre
Adventure in Coinage The Roman Empire: Unstoppable Debasement Sung,
Jurchen, and Mongol Rule: The World's First Paper Currency Hyperinflation
King Henry VIII: Great Debasement in Renaissance England The Ming and
Ching: Aborted Paper Currencies amidst the Menace of Hyperinflation Paper
Currency and American Revolution Assignats and Hyperinflation during the
French Revolution Contrary Experiences of Inflation during America's Civil
War Chapter III The First Wave of Hyperinflation in the 20th Century:
Germany, Russia, and CEE Countries in the 1920s Five Basic Facts of
Hyperinflation during the 1920s The Gold Standard and Rise of the Banking
Industry Alarm Bells for Hyperinflation: Lenin vs. Keynes The Treaty of
Versailles, Reparations, and Germany's Reaction Soviet Russia:
Hyperinflation under "New Economic Policy" The Political Economy of
Hyperinflation: Austria, Hungary, and Poland The League of Nations: An
Emerging Role of Multilateralism Hyperinflation and the Rise of the Nazi
Regime Chapter IV The Second World War and the Upsurge of Hyperinflation in
the 1940s Greece: Wars and Long Stabilization Italy: Rising Inflation in
the Last Stage of the War Hungary: The World Record Hyperinflation Japan:
Surge in Inflation after the War The Philippines and South Korea:
Hyperinflations Before and After Germany: Bitter Escape from Hyperinflation
Chapter V War Finance and its Aftermath: China in the 1940s War Finance and
High Inflation in the First Half of the 1940s Internal War and
Hyperinflation Waves during the late 1940s Ending Hyperinflation in China
Mainland and Taiwan Appendix Note: Friedman's View on FDR, Silver and China
Chapter VI Hyperinflations in an "Age of Inflation" The Collapse of the
Bretton-Woods System and Advent of an "Age of Inflation" Bolivia: The First
Peacetime Hyperinflation in the World Brazil and Argentina: Hyperinflation
in Parallel Israel and Turkey: Contrasting Experiences of High Inflation
Chile, Nicaragua, and Peru: Hyperinflation in Unsettled Societies Zaïre
(Congo) and Angola: Hyperinflations in Failing States Chapter VII A Wave of
Hyperinflation in Transition Economies Repressed Inflation in Planned
Economies Hyperinflations in Russia and Other USSR Successor States Twice
the Hyperinflation in Yugoslavia Inflations and Hyperinflations in Eastern
European Countries Fighting High Inflations: China and Vietnam in East Asia
Chapter VIII World Trend Outliers: Zimbabwe and Venezuela in the 21st
century The World Trend: A "Great Moderation" in the 21st Century Zimbabwe:
A Hyperinflation that Ends Its Own Currency Venezuela: Heading to
Hyperinflation and Crisis North Korea: "Unrepressed" Hyperinflation in a
Hermit Kingdom Appendix Note: Did China Help? Chapter IX Conclusion
References. Index