Austrian Economics Wiki talk:WikiProject Economic History

Inflation in the Weimar Republic

I've added a bunch of statistics to the article and can add some more, but the article could use some more human perspective on the effects of the inflation. For now, it mostly says, "it was bad". There's got to be more to be said about a hyperinflation. Pestergaines 17:25, 23 November 2010 (CST)

Agreed. I will help you as I can. I hope in the end I will have a link that I can quickly send to others and just say: "Just read this and you'll know what I mean"! Portuguese 06:35, 24 November 2010 (CST)

Userbox

I've created a userbox for the project, try {{User WikiProject Economic History}} (e.g. on your userpage). Looks nice by itself, but I run into problems when trying to align it against existing text properly. Does anybody know how to use that thing? Pestergaines 04:09, 28 November 2010 (CST)

Example:

This user is a member of the Economic History project.

Okay, one possibility is to use the {{Clear}} template after it. Pestergaines 04:25, 28 November 2010 (CST)

Inflation in Nazi Germany

I've added a new article on the Inflation in Nazi Germany and it could use some care. I worry about the readability and it could definitively use more references (the links are a good place to start, they contain a lot of good information). Can anybody help out? Pestergaines 11:25, 28 November 2010 (CST)

Next article

Once through with the newest article, what topic can we attend to? Several possibilities come to mind:

• Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe is still in recent memory and deserves a full article.
• The greenback inflation during the American Civil War will surely be of interest for many US readers.
• But we could also go into most recent history, and map out the current economic crisis some more, with emphasis on countries, that are becoming more and more interesting in this context (say, Ireland or Spain).

Any further ideas? Pestergaines 11:25, 28 November 2010 (CST)

OR how about the monetary crisis in the EU, which seems like a hot topic too, pushing many buttons, with some history behind it and plenty of current events? Pestergaines 17:42, 2 December 2010 (CST)

I'd be interested in working on American Civil War-related topics. I can focus more on the general history though, using Hummel's work as a source. --Forgottenman (talk) 20:21, 2 December 2010 (CST)

That sounds like a good angle - don't have much sources on the war itself, but maybe we can milk whatever we find on the greenback inflation and enhance the general topic while making a foundation for the more specific one. Do you need assistance with anything? (You could e.g. enter the raw text and leave the wikification, linking, etc. on us.) Division of labor rules! Pestergaines 07:43, 3 December 2010 (CST)

• I don't know many details, as WikiLeaks (no relation to Mises Wiki, folks!) has not yet provided them, but it seems a major release of highly revealing internal goings-on at a major U.S. bank is due from WikiLeaks early in 2011. Pointing out the Austrian angle to the, um....stuff hitting the fan as we learn it could end up really hot. -- RayBirks 20:40, 2 December 2010 (CST)

There is some stuff on the crisis, so maybe we could expand that, or carve out a part and concentrate on the US banking industry during the crisis on a separate page, with regulations, bailouts and moral hazard. What do you think? Pestergaines 07:43, 3 December 2010 (CST)