Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation

by Eamonn F. Butler, Robert L. Schuettinger

Overview

By special arrangement with the authors, the Mises Institute is thrilled to bring back this popular guide to ridiculous economic policy from the ancient world to modern times. This outstanding history illustrates the utter futility of fighting the market process through legislation. It always uses despotic measures to yield socially catastrophic results.It covers the ancient world, the Roman Republic and Empire, Medieval Europe, the first centuries of the U.S. and Canada, the French Revolution, the 19th century, World Wars I and II, the Nazis, the Soviets, postwar rent control, and the 1970s. It also includes a very helpful conclusion spelling out the theory of wage and price controls.This book is a treasure, and super entertaining!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610166324
Publisher:	Ludwig von Mises ,Institute
Publication date:	08/20/2014
Pages:	194
Sales rank:	301,460
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.41(d)