Shock ValuesAuthor :
Hardback
Published : Tuesday 21 May 2024
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How inflation and deflation fears shape American democracy. Many foundational moments in American economic history-the establishment of paper money, wartime price controls, the rise of the modern Federal Reserve-occurred during financial panics as prices either inflated or deflated sharply. The governments decisions in these moments, intended to control price fluctuations, have produced both lasting effects and some of the most contentious debates in the nations history. A sweeping history of the United States economy and politics, Shock Values reveals how the American state has been shaped by a massive, ever-evolving effort to insulate its economy from the real and perceived dangers of price fluctuations. Carola Binder narrates how the pains of rising and falling prices have brought lasting changes for every generation of Americans. And with each brush with price instability, the United States has been reinvented-not as a more perfect union, but as a reflection of its most recent failures. Shock Values tells the untold story of prices and price stabilization in the United States. Expansive and enlightening, Binder recounts the interest-group politics, legal battles, and economic ideas that have shaped a nation from the dawn of the republic to the present.
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