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Better Analysis Can Be found Elsewhere, Feb 22 2011
This review is from: When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany (Paperback)
The author has presented a somewhat disjointed analysis of the realities of the hyperinflation that plagued Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empires after WWI.
Recognizing that the volume was written over 30 years ago, the grammatical style and parochialism used make it difficult reading at times. The run on sentences has the reader wondering if the editor in fact made any effort to correct the author and how much research was done outside repeating what other others wrote firsthand.
The anecdotal ramblings at times make the writings more "bar room" banter than solid evidence of the sufferings of the masses to the ravages of hyperinflation.
With descendants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the reality of hyperinflation is life changing. Regrettably this volume has little of the credibility to the lessions and stories repeated by "Grandpa" during his fireside chats with us at Christmas.
Better annals with solid economic research, written without the colloquialisms of the "Queens English" exist and the serious student of this realm of Hapsburg misery would well consider another author for that reference library addition.
For the reader whose mind wanders at anything making reference to economic analysis, this book may begin your journey into seeking out the realities of hyperinflation and the misery it brings to all who live through it. Make sure you also have plenty of bitter ale or rum to make the story all the better.
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