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The Great Disorder: Politics, Economics, and Society in the German Inflation, 1914-1924 - Softcover

Feldman, Gerald D.

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Synopsis

This book presents a comprehensive study of the most famous and spectacular instance of inflation in modern industrial society--that in Germany during and following World War I. A broad, probing narrative, this book studies inflation as a strategy of social pacification and economic reconstruction and as a mechanism for escaping domestic and international indebtedness. The Great Disorder is a study of German society under the tension of inflation and hyperinflation, and it explores the ways in which Germany's hyperinflation and stabilization were linked to the Great Depression and the rise of National Socialism. This wide-ranging study sets German inflation within the broader issues of maintaining economic stability, social peace, and democracy and thus contributes to the general history of the twentieth century and has important implications for existing and emerging market economies facing the temptation or reality of inflation.

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Gerald D. Feldman is at University of California, Berkeley.

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9780195037913: The Great Disorder: Politics, Economics, and Society in the German Inflation, 1914-1924

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ISBN 10:  019503791X ISBN 13:  9780195037913
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1993
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