Excerpt from Paper Money by "Adam Smith," (George J.W. Goodman ... of the Ruhr and of the province of Upper Silesia. The Weimar Republic was politically fragile. But the bourgeois habits were ...

Adam Fergusson wrote the definitive book on Weimar - a real instance of hyperinflation - titled When Money Dies. It used to be out of print and a bit hard to find, but now you can find it in its ...

I also have several left over from the miseries of the Weimar Republic ... Because a huge rise in the money supply is not enough to cause hyperinflation. The basic theory of monetary ...

Meanwhile, amid the economic gloom of the lower and middle classes, the rich were spending money like crazy To avoid ... suspended seven articles of the Weimar constitution, himself declared ...