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BMG is happy to provide investors and advisors with a growing selection of thoroughly researched and examined eBooks on such topics as; economic theory, influential historical milestones and much more.

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Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire

by Joseph Peden

Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire Author: Joseph Peden The Roman Empire, once magnificent, nevertheless came to an ignominious end. Yet the wonder is not that it eventually fell, but rather that it lasted so long. Peden discusses the problem of inflation and its impact; his analysis is based on the premise that monetary policy cannot be studied or understood in isolation from the overall policies of the state.

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Fiat Money Inflation In France: How It Came, What It Brought, How It Ended

by Andrew Dickson White

The classic history of the French hyperinflation from 1790 to 1796. During that time, French politicians inflated the currency supply by issuing paper notes (Assignats), theoretically backed by lands confiscated from the Catholic Church and the fleeing aristocracy, to be used in lieu of gold and silver.

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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

by Charles Mackay

Written by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay and first published in 1841, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is an amazing chronicle of human recklessness. The book chronicles various episodes in time when otherwise intelligent individuals have jumped, en masse, into hare-brained speculative frenzies such as the Tulip Mania, the South Sea Bubble and the Mississippi Bubble. The book is divided into three parts: “National Delusions”, “Peculiar Follies” and “Philosophical Delusions”, in which Mackay debunks not only economic bubbles, but other silly episodes in human history. We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the 1980s and the dotcom bubble of the 1990s are 20th century aberrations, but Mackay's classic shows that the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits.

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Dying of Money: Lessons of the Great German and American Inflations

by Jens O. Parsson

Written by Jens O. Parsson, this book published in 1974 talks about the mechanics of the Weimar inflation. The Weimar inflation in the 1920.s was actually not the first or the only inflation in Europe that has ever happened. Nor is it the most extreme hyperinflation known throughout history. However many of the dramatic and unusual economic behaviours that are now associated with hyperinflation were systematically recorded and documented in Germany during the inflation.

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What Has Government Done to Our Money?

by Murray N. Rothbard

In a well-written, easy to understand, slim volume, Rothbard presents the basics of money and banking theory, and traces the decline of the US dollar from the 18th century to the present. He discusses central banking, New Deal monetary policy, Nixonian fiat money and fixed exchange rates along the way, and provides a blueprint for a return to the reserve gold standard.

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When Money Dies

by Adam Fergusson

What happens when money dies? When bankers flood the market with worthless currency? And when that very act creates hyperinflation? Written in 1975 by Adam Fergusson, one-time adviser to Britain’s Conservative minister Lord Howe, When Money Dies details how the German economy was ruined by hyperinflation after the Weimar government allowed public spending to run amok (the collapse of the Weimar Republic cleared the way for Hitler’s Nazis to seize power in 1933). 

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The Case for Gold: A Minority Report of the U.S. Gold Commission

by Rep. Ron Paul and Lewis Lehrman

In 1982, Representative Ron Paul served on the US Gold Commission, which was charged with evaluating the role of gold in the monetary system. The majority of the panelists were monetarists, who regarded gold as too scarce and fiat paper as a perfectly fine substitute.  Paul's team, however, issued a minority report, which was undoubtedly the greatest result of the Commission.

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