In this series of articles, I have set out to examine some of the more extreme inflationary surges that have occurred over the last 700 years or so, looking for...

The Sixteenth Century – England under the Tudors and Stuarts, Reformation Europe and the Conquistadores

‘Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it can be produced only by more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in outputs’ –...