Fiat Money Inflation in France, How It Came, What It Brought and How It Ended: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Fiat Money Inflation in France, How It Came, What It Brought and How It Ended, credited to Andrew Dickson White, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Fiat Money Inflation in France, How It Came, What It Brought and How It Ended by Andrew Dickson White. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The story of "Fiat Money Inflation in France" is one of great interest to legislators, to economic students, and to all business and thinking men. It records the most gigantic attempt ever made in the history of the world by a government to create an inconvertible paper currency, and to maintain its circulation at various levels of value. It also records what is perhaps the greatest of all governmental efforts — with the possible exception of Diocletian's — to enact and enforce a legal limit of commodity prices. Every fetter that could hinder the will or thwart the wisdom of democracy had been shattered, and in consequence every device and expedient that untrammelled power and ururepressed optimism could conceive were brought to bear. But the attempts failed. They left behind them a legacy of moral and material desolation and woe, from which one of the most intellectual and spirited races of Europe has suffered for a century and a quarter, and will continue to suffer until the end of time. There are limitations to the powers of governments and of peoples that inhere in the constitution of things, and that neither despotisms nor democracies can overcome. - Summary from Introductory Note by John Mackay

Recording facts

• Recording title: Fiat Money Inflation in France, How It Came, What It Brought and How It Ended
• Author credits: Andrew Dickson White
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 2:39:15

Catalogue topics

• economics
• money
• assignats
• paper money
• fiat currency

Track guide

1. 01 - Introductory Note by Mr Mackay — 7:29
2. 02 - Introduction — 6:44
3. 03 - Section 1 Part 1 — 18:28
4. 04 - Section 1 Part 2 — 13:45
5. 05 - Section 1 Part 3 — 14:13
6. 06 - Section 1 Part 4 — 15:40
7. 07 - Section 2 Part 1 — 15:06
8. 08 - Section 2 Part 2 — 16:16
9. 09 - Section 2 Part 3 — 16:23
10. 10 - Section 3 Part 1 — 15:20
11. 11 - Section 3 Part 2 — 11:28
12. 12 - Appendix: Effects of Cheap Coinage in Great Britain from Macaulay's History of England — 3:33
13. 13 - A Summary of the History of Paper Money in the United States During the Colonial and Revolutionary Period by Emile Levasseur — 4:50

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