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# Fiat Money Inflation in France

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Deja Vu all over again!
  

*by E***S on Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2022*

Want to read history repeating itself?  Read this book.Written in 1912.  The post French Revolution was a very interesting era that few Americans will ever hear about even though they are re-living it.  Short (less than 90 pages), concise and unfortunately very familiar.  Some very profound observations on fiat money and why they inevitably fail.  Of course, one of the few differences between now and then is today we have social media, back then they had guillotines

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great book, quick and easy read...
  

*by C***A on Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2013*

This was a great book, a very quick read because it is only 60 pages. The book shows how the fiat currency system failed in France twice in 70 years. The people of France were fooled into using the fiat currency system again 70 years later. Governments use fiat currency to rob their citizens of their time, labor, wealth and savings. While doing this the society loses its morals, infrastructure decays, politicians become more corrupt, and so on. This happened in France in the 1790s and it shows how the world TODAY is pretty much the same. Learning about currency and monetary policy is a must. This book will help you understand why people have trouble saving, and how things don't got UP in price, the currency that they are priced in goes DOWN in value.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Interesting Financial History But Understand It Is A Lecture
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2009*

As noted by other reviewers this book is about the substantive inflation in France during the 1790s. Putting it simply the French politicians inflated the currency supply by issuing paper, theoretically backed by lands seized from the Catholic church and the fleeing aristocracy, to be used in lieu of gold and silver. At first this had a positive effect on the economy but it rapidly deteriorated to requiring ever increasing amounts of printed currency to maintain momentum. As they printed more currency the value fell, people hoarded gold and the government enacted draconian measures, including the death penalty, to force people to accept the printed currency at par. Ultimately it all crashed and the printed currency was wiped out.This material is essentially a lecture originally given by the author, Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918) in 1876 and updated in 1914 prior to his death. It has had a long life inasmuch as "goldbugs" love the example of the debasement of currency while gold retains value. Today it has experienced renewed interest as the US government aggressively floods the markets with currency to offset the housing crash/recession. So this maintains historical and current interest even though there are many other examples of currency inflation (i.e. Weimar Germany).The book has limitations since it is really a lecture, rather than a "book" per se, and the age of the writing. As a lecture it would be an interesting overview and object lesson in two or three hours. However there are a large number of points which simply can not be explored in detail in a lecture and could only be developed in a full length book (i.e. France attempted to index link loans to the falling currency value). The writing, while clear, struck me as containing elements of florid lecture oratory.In all an interested historical artifact exploring an interesting historical event.

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