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'''Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls''' is a historical guide through thousands of years of failed economical policies, especially [[price controls]]. It was written by Robert L. Schuettinger and Eamonn F. Butler.  
'''Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls''' is a historical guide through thousands of years of failed economical policies, especially [[price controls]]. It was written by Robert L. Schuettinger and Eamonn F. Butler.  
{{See also|History of Money and Banking}}


==Contents==
==Contents==
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==External links==
==External links==
* read the complete [http://mises.org/books/fortycenturies.pdf online version] (pdf) or [http://mises.org/store/Forty-Centuries-of-Wage-and-Price-Controls-P566.aspx purchase] the book
* read the complete [http://mises.org/books/fortycenturies.pdf online version] (pdf) or [http://mises.org/store/Forty-Centuries-of-Wage-and-Price-Controls-P566.aspx purchase] the book
* [http://mises.org/daily/1962 Four Thousand Years of Price Control], November 2005, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
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[[Category:Literature]]

Revision as of 11:50, 23 February 2010

Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls is a historical guide through thousands of years of failed economical policies, especially price controls. It was written by Robert L. Schuettinger and Eamonn F. Butler.

See also: History of Money and Banking

Contents

  1. The Ancient World
  2. The Roman Republic and Empire
  3. From Medieval to Early Modern Times
  4. Canada and the United States: The First Centuries
  5. The French Revolution
  6. The Nineteenth Century: One Success, One Failure
  7. The First World War
  8. Three Nations Between the Wars
  9. National Socialist Germany
  10. The Soviet Union
  11. Two Democracies in the Second World War
  12. Postwar Rent Controls
  13. A Postwar Survey of Six Continents
  14. The Price of World Currency
  15. The U.S., Britain and Canada: 1970-78
  16. On the Causes of Inflation
  17. Coping with Inflation
  18. The Cures For Inflation
  19. The Economic Effects of Wage and Price Controls

Appendices

  • The Wage and Price Control Statutes From the Code of Hammurabi
  • The Edict of Diocletian Fixing Maximum Prices and Wages
  • A Tax-Based Incomes Policy (TIP): What's It All About?
  • An Analysis of President Carter's Wage-Insurance Plan

External links

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