A Treatise on the Alteration of Money
Juan de Mariana
- In
- this
- treatise
- we
- find
- an
- insightful
- analysis
- concerning
- how
- monetary
- debasement
- and
- inflation
- increase
- prices,
- which
- proceeds
- to
- illustrate
- how
- such
- increases
- do
- not
- affect
- everyone
- equally—in
- effect,
- causing
- a
- revolution
- in
- fortunes.
- In
- a
- parallel
- argument,
- Mariana
- explains
- how
- government,
- if
- given
- control
- of
- other
- forms
- of
- private
- property,
- would
- also
- debase
- the
- values
- of
- those
- forms
- and
- use
- them
- according
- to
- its
- own interests.
