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==
# The Ancient World
# The Roman Republic and Empire
# From Medieval to Early Modern Times
# Canada and the United States: The First Centuries
# The French Revolution
# The Nineteenth Century: One Success, One Failure
# The First World War
# Three Nations Between the Wars
# National Socialist Germany
# The Soviet Union
# Two Democracies in the Second World War
# Postwar Rent Controls
# A Postwar Survey of Six Continents
# The Price of World Currency
# The U.S., Britain and Canada: 1970-78
# On the Causes of Inflation
# Coping with Inflation
# The Cures For Inflation
# 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
==External links==
* read the complete online version (pdf) or purchase the book
* Four Thousand Years of Price Control, November 2005, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Category:Literature