Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls

Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls is a historical guide through thousands of years of failed economical policies, especially price controls. It was written by Robert L. Schuettinger and Eamonn F. Butler.

Contents

 * 1) The Ancient World
 * 2) The Roman Republic and Empire
 * 3) From Medieval to Early Modern Times
 * 4) Canada and the United States: The First Centuries
 * 5) The French Revolution
 * 6) The Nineteenth Century: One Success, One Failure
 * 7) The First World War
 * 8) Three Nations Between the Wars
 * 9) National Socialist Germany
 * 10) The Soviet Union
 * 11) Two Democracies in the Second World War
 * 12) Postwar Rent Controls
 * 13) A Postwar Survey of Six Continents
 * 14) The Price of World Currency
 * 15) The U.S., Britain and Canada: 1970-78
 * 16) On the Causes of Inflation
 * 17) Coping with Inflation
 * 18) The Cures For Inflation
 * 19) The Economic Effects of Wage and Price Controls

Appendices

 * The Wage and Price Control Statutes From the Code of Hammurabi
 * The Edict of Diocletian Fixing Maximum Prices and Wages
 * A Tax-Based Incomes Policy (TIP): What's It All About?
 * An Analysis of President Carter's Wage-Insurance Plan

Links

 * read the complete online version (pdf) or purchase the book
 * Four Thousand Years of Price Control, November 2005, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo