PublicAffairs will republish Adam Fergusson’s 1975 economics book, When Money Dies: Germany in the 1920s and the Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation. The paperback release is set for October 12, 2010.
The book had registered in news stories around the country as readers and journalists worried about the effects of our current recession and possibility of hyperinflation. CNN Money has more details: “A rushed paperback UK edition of Fergusson’s book has held onto the number one spot for business books on Amazon UK for more than twenty-six days and is now climbing Amazon’s US rankings.”
Here’s more from PublicAffairs about the title: “[It is] a cautionary moral tale of the runaway economy of the Weimar Republic, has never before been published in the U.S. Over the years, the book built up a cult following among investment professionals and financial conservatives, but recently, in the wake of the economic crisis, interest in the book as a warning about the unintended consequences of liberal economic policies has grown to a fever pitch.”