The Great Disorder
Politics, Economics, and Society in the German Inflation, 1914-1924
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 1993
1032 pages
978-0-19-977228-5 (ISBN)
Description
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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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The German Inflation in Collective Memory and Economic History
- The Germany of Dr. Cornelius
- BOOK ONE: THE INFLATION IN WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
- Part I: The First World War and the Origins of the German Inflation
- 1. Financing the War
- 2. War Economy and Inflation
- Part II: Managing the Crises: From the November Revolution to the Kapp Putsch
- 3. The Economics of Revolution and Revolutionary Economics
- 4. The Chaotic Path to Relative Stabilization, July 1919-March 1920
- Part III: Relative Stabilization and Inflationary Reconstruction, April 1920-May 1921
- 5. The Trials and Tribulations of Relative Stabilization
- 6. What Kind of Reconstruction? The German Business Community Faces the Future
- Part IV: Reparations and the Domestic Management of the German Inflation
- 7. The Presentation of the Bill
- 8. The Domestic Politics of Fulfillment, May 1921-January 1922
- 9. The Transition to Galloping Inflation
- 10. The Vicious Circles: From Galloping Inflation to Hyperinflation, January-July 1922
- 11. Stabilization Debates and Political Crises, August 1922-January 1923
- BOOK TWO: THE HYPERINFLATION
- Part V: Society, State, and Economy in the Hyperinflation of 1922
- 12. The Year of Dr. Mabuse: The Hyperinflation and German Society in 1922
- 13. Facing Disaster: The State and the "Productive Estates" on the Eve of the Ruhr Occupation
- Part VI: The Ruhr Crisis, End of the Mark, Currency Reform, and Stabilization
- 14. A Disordered Fortress: Passive Resistance, the Cuno Government, and the Destruction of the German Mark
- 15. The Politics of Currency Reform, August-October 1923
- 16. The Politics of Stabilization, October-November 1923
- 17. Saving the Stabilization, December 1923-April 1924
- Epilogue: A Mortgaged Democracy
- From Deflation to Deflation
- From Geldmenschen to Hitlermenschen
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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