Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Diagrams -- List of Abbreviations and Conventions -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Current State of Research -- Objectives of the Present Study -- Part One: Statistical Measures and their Problems -- Chapter 1 : Classifying Inflations -- Chapter 2: Price and Purchasing Power Movements -- 2.1. Exchange Rates and Wholesale Prices -- 2.2. The Cost of Living -- Chapter 3: Changes in the Money Supply and Liquidity -- 3.1. Some Theoretical Considerations -- 3.2. Empirical Evidence -- 3.3. Measures of Monetary Overhang -- Part Two: Explaining the Inflation -- Chapter 4: Theoretical Preliminaries -- Chapter 5: The Determinants of Monetary Expansion -- 5.1. The Fiscal Policy of the Reich -- 5.2. The Credit Policies of the Reichsbank -- Chapter 6: Other Explanatory Factors -- 6.1. The Short-run Determinants of Production -- 6.2. Factors Affecting the Demand for Money -- 6.3. Conclusion: Ranking the Reasons for the Inflation -- Part Three: The Effects of the Inflation -- Chapter 7: Employment, Fluctuations, Growth -- 7.1. The Domestic Economy -- 7.2. The World Economy -- Chapter 8: Distributional Effects within Germany -- 8.1. The Context and Contours of the Debate -- 8.2. Changes in National Income -- 8.3. Changes in Real Wages -- 8.4. The Distribution of National Income -- Chapter 9: Inflation and the International Distribution of Income -- 9.1. Preliminary Observations -- 9.2. Methods of Calculation and Findings -- 9.3. A Cost-Benefit Evaluation -- Chapter 10: Ending and Mending: Stabilization and Revaluation -- 10.1. Stabilization -- 10.2. Revaluation of Debts -- Summary and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Persons.