Hyperinflation : a world history

Introduction: basic concepts of hyperinflation -- Monetary adventures before the 20th century -- The first wave of hyperinflation in the 20th century: Germany, Russia, and CEE countries in the 1920s -- The Second World War and the upsurge of hyperinflation in the 1940s -- War finance and its aftermath: China in the 1940s -- Hyperinflations in an "age of inflation" -- A wave of hyperinflation in transition economies -- World trend outliers: Zimbabwe and Venezuela in the 21st century -- Conclusion