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Fiat Money Inflation in France: How It Came, What It Brought, and How It Ended
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At the beginning of the French Revolution, the state finances were a mess. There was heavy debt and a serious deficit, Andrew Dickson White explains in the first sentence of his classic monograph, Fiat Money Inflation in France. Vast reforms and political turmoil had led to a general want of confidence in business circles.
Stagnation resulted.
Out of this grew a great demand for a shortcut to prosperity: paper money. Journalists quickly caught the fever, calling the reluctant minister of finance a money-grubber.
It wasnt greed that caused the minister initially to balk. It was memory of John Laws financial bubble early in the century: John Laws notes at first restored prosperity, yes but wretchedness and ruin were the quick result.
The ministers hesitancy didnt last. A plan to back the notes with land, and to print only large notes, convinced him. Besides, he argued, paper money was dangerous only under despotism. The new constitutional republic could handle paper money rationally and without disaster.
Within five months, the French government had spent the notes and was again broke.
What begins in dreams of a panacea ends in devastation.
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PAPER-MONEY INFLATION IN FRANCE: HOW IT CAME, WHAT IT BROUGHT, AND HOW IT ENDED
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Near the end of the year 1789 the French nation found itself in deep financial embarrassment; there was a heavy debt and a serious deficit. Perhaps the same solution to this French problem could be used in the modern United States.
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History of the Warfare of Science With Theology in Christendom
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Farewell Sermons of Some of the Most Eminent of the Nonconformist Ministers: Delivered at the Period of Their Ejectment By the Act of Uniformity in ... and Biographical Preface (Classic Reprint)
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The season of religious intolerance is, we trust, passing away. The increase of knowledge has been marked by the diminution of bigotry; and the mighty convulsions which have for a seriesof sanguinary years shook thefoundation of thrones, and led every man to examine by what principles his life was governed, and how far they were capable of sustaining him in the prospect of future, perhaps of greater calamities have resulted not only in universal peace, but in general improvement. Institutions have of late sprung up which have produced the effect of making christians of different persuasions better acquainted with each other, and the stiffness of jealousy has relaxed into the interchanges of mutual friendship, and conciliation.
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2017 Reprint of 1958 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. In Fiat Money Inflation in France, Andrew Dickson White presents the still-largely-unknown story of a major factor behind the French Revolution. The definitive account of the hyperinflation that occurred in the wake of the French Revolution of 1789, Fiat Money Inflation in France is a warning on the dangers of government overspending and the oversupply of paper money. A work of brevity and clarity, it is as relevant today as ever.
Andrew Dickson White was an American educator and diplomat, helped found Cornell University and became its first president.
Background
He was born on November 7, 1832 in Homer, New York, to Clara (née Dickson) and Horace White.
Clara was the daughter of Andrew Dickson, a New York State Assemblyman in 1832 and his wife; and Horace was the son of Asa White, a farmer from Massachusetts, and his wife. Their once-successful farm was ruined by a fire when Horace was 13.
Education
At the age of 17 he entered the Episcopal-oriented Geneva (Hobart) College in western New York, but he disliked it and after a year dropped out and entered Yale.
White studied languages and history in Paris and Berlin, and during 1854-1855 he served for 6 months as an attaché to the American minister in St. Petersburg, Russia.
In 1856 White received his master of arts degree from Yale and then accepted an offer to be professor of history at the nonsectarian University of Michigan.
During his 6 years there he conceived of a new university for central New York that would be shorn of outworn traditions and would offer the broadest opportunities for study in higher education.
He graduated at Yale (A. B. ) in 1853, studied at the Sorbonne in 1854, and at the University of Berlin in 1855-1856, meanwhile serving as attache at the United States Legation at St Petersburg in 1854-1855.
Career
White foughtto concentrate the Federal aid in one institution, and Cornell agreed to give $500, 000 and land for a site to bolster that aim.
He was professor of history and English literature in 1857-1863, and lecturer on history in 1863- 1867 at the University of Michigan.
He retired from this post in 1885.
During his years at Cornell, where White taught history as well as being chief administrator, he brought to reality his earlier concept of a nonsectarian, coeducational university where not only the classics but also modern subjects including science, agriculture, mechanical arts, and even military science would be taught—a place where every student could study just what interested him or her.
White's reforms in teaching and in the curriculum gained him national attention. White took a leave of absence from Cornell to serve as United States minister to Germany (1879 - 1881).
He was also minister to the Hague Peace Conference in 1899.
At the age of 17 he entered the Episcopal-oriented Geneva (Hobart) College in western New York, but he disliked it and after a year dropped out and entered Yale.
Views
Quotations:
"During my life, which is now extending beyond the allotted span of threescore and ten, I have been engaged after the manner of my countrymen, in many sorts of work, have become interested in many conditions of men have joined in many efforts which I hope have been of use; but, most of all, I have been interested in the founding and maintaining of Cornell University, and by the part I have taken in that, more than by any other work of my life I hope to be judged. "
Membership
He was a member of the Skull and Bones Society at the Johns Hopkins University.
In 1864-1867 he was a member of the New York state Senate, and as chairman of the Committee on Education took an active part in formulating the educational features of the bill under which Cornell University (q. v. ) was incorporated (1865).
White was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1884.
Connections
He married twice. He married first, on September 27, 1857, Mary Amanda Outwater (February 10, 1836 – June 8, 1887), daughter of Peter Outwater and Lucia M. Phillips of Syracuse. Mary's maternal grandmother Amanda Danforth, daughter of Asa Danforth, Jr. and wife of Elijah Phillips, Jr. , was the first white child born in what would become Onondaga County, New York.
Her great-grandfathers included General Asa Danforth, an early pioneer of upstate New York and leader of the State Militia, as well as Elijah Philips, Sr. , who had responded to the alarm to Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1775 and later served as the High Sheriff of Onondaga County.
Andrew and Mary had three children together: Frederick Davies White, who committed suicide in his forties in 1901 after a prolonged series of illnesses; Clara (White) Newbury, who died before her father; and Ruth (White) Ferry.
After his wife died in 1887, White went on a lecture tour and traveled in Europe with his close friend, Daniel Willard Fiske, librarian at Cornell.
After two years as a widower, in 1890, White married Helen Magill, the daughter of Edward Magill, Swarthmore College's second president. She was the first woman in the United States to earn a Ph. D. Like her husband, Helen was a social scientist and educator; the two met at a conference where she was presenting a paper. Together, Helen and Andrew had one daughter, Karin White.