Talk:Price revolution

message: :Demographic factors also contributed fundamentally to upward pressure on prices, with the revival (from around the third quarter of the 15th century) of European population growth after the century of depopulation and demographic stagnation that had followed the Black Death.
I think that sentence is a bit confusing.  A priori, and certainly fundamentally, population growth does not contribute to higher prices.  In fact, since the currencies we're talking about here were silver-based (fractional-reserve banking not having been introduced) and had a slow and probably nearly constant circulation velocity, you'd expect deflation, in the absence of new silver (which is excluded from the discussion in that paragraph).
In this case, there are certainly other factors that have to be included:  settlement structures limited the available arable land;  adjusting the economy to a larger population might have resulted in extra cost.  However, I would think it's impossible to discern those comparatively minor factors after all those years, most data having been lost.
I'll remove "fundamentally" now, but I'm not sure I'm smart enough to salvage anything from the rest of the paragraph.
RandomP 23:27, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  more people = higher prices?! 

message: Shouldn't this be titled the "Price Revolution" in capitals as e.g. in Hughes' Early Modern Germany? It surely is a proper name. --Bermicourt (talk) 18:50, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalisation? 

message: An WP:AfC has been written called European Price Revolution.  I suggest merging the information from that article into this one, rather than creating a separate article? Jonpatterns (talk) 09:57, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge in information from AfC

message: I propose that European Price Revolution be merged into this article Price revolution. I think that the content in the former article is about largely the same topic.Jonpatterns (talk) 18:22, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge information from European Price Revolution and Spanish Price Revolution proposal 

message: The article doesn't really explain why the "price revolution" is interesting or important or worth having an article about. OK, so prices increased more than they had previously been increasing . . . so what?
Was it historically important in some way — for example, did it affect people in some way, or have important consequences? Or is it important primarily because of something that economists have learned from it? Or something else?
Were people aware of it at the time, or is it something recognized only in retrospect?
What makes it a "revolution"?
—RuakhTALK02:35, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I see that the article has now been expanded to address this. Thanks! —RuakhTALK 03:58, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  
So what?
 

message: ...seems to be missing two. Spain suffered defaults on sovereign debts in 1557, 1560, 1569, 1575, and 1596. — LlywelynII 09:43, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: "Three bankruptcies"...

message: This article contains quite a lot of inappropriate generalizations. The subject especially with respect to its causes is rather controversially debated, which is not really illustrated here. Danx de Mais (talk) 13:10, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Generally", "most historians"