Why Do Prices Rise?

17 country histories of money

We will examine historical price rises using the quantity of money, the supply of goods, and trust in the system as clues.

1. the 3rd century　The Twilight of the Empire 　Overview: the world
2. the 3rd century　The frontier of the empire 　Italy
3. 301　A market of the empire 　Italy
4. the 10th–12th centuries　The provincial granaries and Ōshū 　Japan
5. the 13th century　A market where prices rise 　China
6. AD 1287　The Runaway Jiaochao 　Overview: the world
7. 1337–about 1350　The royal mint, Paris in winter 　France
8. 1501–1600　A town of Castile 　Spain
9. 1503–1660　Seville, the archive of the official register 　Spain
10. 1544–1551　An English town 　Britain
11. 1545–1600　Potosí, in the high Andes 　France
12. the 16th century　The Price Revolution 　Overview: the world
13. the 16th century　The great exchange fair of Lyon 　France
14. the 16th century　A market in France 　France
15. the 16th century　A port into which the silver flows 　Germany
16. the 16th century　A market in Spain 　Spain
17. 1556　Salamanca, the lecture hall of the school 　Spain
18. 1566–1568　A study in the Parlement of Paris 　France
19. 1590s　A market in Istanbul 　Turkey
20. 1619–1623　A town of soaring prices 　Germany
21. about 1623　The territories moving toward a settlement 　Germany
22. 15th–17th centuries　Tax warehouse 　Korea
23. 1652　Potosí, the mint rebuilt 　Spain
24. July 1662　Moscow → Kolomenskoye 　Russia
25. 1793–1794　The market and the square, Paris 　France
26. 1810　Westminster, the Parliament 　Britain
27. 1841–1843　Edo 　Japan
28. 1866–1867　A rice shop storefront 　Korea
29. 1866–1867　The Salary Line 　Korea
30. April 1867　Hanseong 　Korea
31. 1877　Tokyo, the Paper Money Bureau 　Japan
32. 1878–1881　town and village 　Japan
33. 1890s–1904　Markets in Gyeonggi 　Korea
34. 1892–1904　Jeonhwanguk 　Korea
35. From 1894　Counting house 　Korea
36. the 1910s　A bank counter in Lisbon 　Portugal
37. 1913–1916　Various factions 　Mexico
38. 1914–1920　Kobe, Tokyo 　Japan
39. 1914–1918　Germany under controls 　Germany
40. 1914–1918　The harbour of a neutral country 　Netherlands
41. 1919　The market of Turin 　Italy
42. 1919–20　Before the factory gates 　Italy
43. 1922　Markets across Germany 　Germany
44. August 1922　A market 　Austria
45. 1923　Berlin, the banknote printing works 　Germany
46. the autumn of 1923　At the factory gate, payday 　Germany
47. 1923–1924　The office of the currency commissioner 　Germany
48. 1923–1933　A country carrying its memory 　Germany
49. 1925–1936　A town in the rain, in the depths of the slump 　Netherlands
50. 1930　Tokyo and the silk-raising villages 　Japan
51. the beginning of the 1930s　The chancellery, the desk of austerity 　Germany
52. the beginning of the 1930s　Before the labour exchange 　Germany
53. 1933–1945　A town under controls, the frozen price tags 　Germany
54. 1939　The peninsula after the war 　Spain
55. May 1941　The Bank of Greece printing works 　Greece
56. 1943–45　A market in the occupied zone 　Italy
57. 1943–1944　Black market for currency exchange 　Greece
58. October 1944　Price tag at the market 　Greece
59. 1944–1945　The Ministry of Finance 　Greece
60. 1945　A bank counter, the autumn of declarations 　Netherlands
61. August–September 1945　The site of issue 　Korea
62. January 1946　A conference room in London 　Greece
63. 1947　A bread queue 　Italy
64. 1947　The governor's office at the central bank 　Italy
65. 1950–1953　The Path of Refuge 　South Korea
66. 1954–1976　Mexico 　Mexico
67. 1954-1973　The bank's foreign exchange window 　Greece
68. 1957　The Deutsche Bundesbank 　Germany
69. the 1957s–the 1980s　A street corner in West Germany 　Germany
70. January 1961　Moscow 　Russia
71. 1969　Before the factory gates 　Italy
72. the 1970s　A street corner in America 　United States
73. the 1970s　The oilfields of the producing countries 　United States
74. the 1970s　The table of labour negotiations 　Italy
75. 1970s–90s　The Market 　Austria
76. 1970s–1990s　The Market 　South Korea
77. 1970s–1990s　Between the bank and the kye 　South Korea
78. 1971–1973　The world's foreign-exchange market 　United States
79. 1974–1981　A market in Athens 　Greece
80. from 1979　Washington, the Board of the Federal Reserve 　United States
81. the 1980s　The institution of the central bank 　United States
82. the 1980s　A corridor of the treasury ministry 　Italy
83. January 24, 1980　A conference room in the Prime Minister's Office 　Turkey
84. 1982-1988　Mexico City 　Mexico
85. 1983–1992　A corridor of the finance ministry at Bercy 　France
86. 1985　New York, the Plaza Hotel 　United States
87. 1 July 1990　A bank counter in East Germany 　Germany
88. the 1990s　Maastricht 　Germany
89. 1992　A dealing room in the City 　Britain
90. 1994–　Bank of Mexico 　Mexico
91. 1994–present　Bank of Mexico 　Mexico
92. from 1999 to the present　From Frankfurt out to Europe 　Germany
93. 31 January 2004　The pages of the Official Gazette 　Turkey
94. October 25, 2024　Central Bank 　Russia

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