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First published 1962

An Inflation Primer

by Melchior Palyi

Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, 1962160 pagesUpdated March 5, 2010

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Author
Melchior Palyi
First published
1962
Format
PDF, EPUB, and Kindle
Pages
160
Publisher
Henry Regnery Company, Chicago
License
Believed to be in the public domain: this work was published in the 1932-1963 window when US copyright had to be renewed after 28 years, and no renewal was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. Not independently confirmed.

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160 pages, 17 chapters, and about 33,002 words in the edition this archive serves.
Is An Inflation Primer in the public domain?
Believed so. US works published between 1932 and 1963 kept copyright past 28 years only if someone filed a renewal, and no renewal for this work was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. That is a search result rather than a legal opinion: a renewal filed under a shortened title or a different claimant would not have been found. Some copies carry a rights notice, which records the original claim and does not extend a term that lapsed.
Who wrote An Inflation Primer?
Melchior Palyi (1892–1970) was a Hungarian-American economist, educator, and financial expert. He taught at universities in Kiel, Göttingen, and Berlin before moving to the United States, where he taught at the University of Chicago, the University of… This archive holds 2 of Palyi's works.

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17 chapters · 33,002 words · free to read here

  1. I. Inflation's Syndrome
  2. II. The "Modus Operandi" of Inflation
  3. III. The Fountainheads of Inflation
  4. IV. The Vicious Spirals
  5. V. Riding on the Inflation Crest
  6. VI. The Consumer (and Taxpayer_ Be Damned
  7. VII. The "Philosophy" of Inflation
  8. VIII. Creeping Inflation and Intellectual Honesty
  9. IX. Inflation's Balance Sheet: The Liabilities
  10. X. The Burden of the National Debt
  11. XI. The Curse of the Debt
  12. XII. The Dollar on the Sickbed
  13. XIII. The Sad Predicament of the Fool's Paradise
  14. Appendix
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. About this edition

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Melchior Palyi 1892–1970

Melchior Palyi (1892–1970) was a Hungarian-American economist, educator, and financial expert. He taught at universities in Kiel, Göttingen, and Berlin before moving to the United States, where he taught at the University of Chicago, the… Read more about Melchior Palyi.

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