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The Price Revolution, sometimes known as the Spanish Price Revolution, was a series of economic events that occurred between the second half of the 16th century and the first half of the 17th century, and most specifically linked to the high rate of inflation that occurred during this period across Western Europe. Prices rose on average roughly ...
Warhogs: A History of War Profits in America (1997) Breen, William J. "The mobilization of skilled labor in World War I: 'Voluntarism,' the US public service reserve, and the Department of Labor, 1917–1918," Labor History (1991) 32#2 pp 253–272. Clark, John Maurice. The costs of the World War to the American people (1931) online free
An Economic History of the Iberian Peninsula, 700–2000. Cambridge University Press. Flynn, Dennis O. "Fiscal Crisis and the Decline of Spain (Castile)." Journal of Economic History, 42#1 (1982), pp. 139–47. online; Hamilton, Earl J. American Treasure and the Price Revolution in Spain, 1501-1650. 1934, rpt. edn. New York 1965.
To pay for the large costs of the First World War, Germany suspended the gold standard (the convertibility of its currency to gold) when the war broke out in 1914. Unlike France, which imposed its first income tax to pay for the war, German Emperor Wilhelm II and the Reichstag decided unanimously to fund the war entirely by borrowing.
An economic history of Europe, 1760-1939 (1939) online; Cipolla, Carlo M., ed. The Fontana Economic history of Europe (10 vol 1973–80) title list; Clough, Shepard Bancroft and Charles Woolsey Cole. Economic History of Europe (1952) 920 pp online edition; Heaton, Herbert. Economic History Of Europe (1948) online; Jones, E. L.
Historical real GDP per capita development of Italy from 1 AD to 2018. This is a history of the economy of Italy.For more information on historical, cultural, demographic and sociological developments in Italy, see the chronological era articles in the template to the right.
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History is a scholarly work by historian David Hackett Fischer, published in 1996 by Oxford University Press.. Hackett Fischer identified three complete monetary waves in European history, each consisting of a price revolution, featuring high inflation, followed by a war crisis, followed by a new equilibrium.
The European interwar economy (the period between the First and Second World War, also known as the interbellum) began when the countries in Western Europe were struggling to recover from the devastation caused by the First World War, while also dealing with economic depression and the rise of fascism.