Scenarios about 'inflation'
The persistent increase in general price levels of goods and services in an economy over time, resulting in the decreased purchasing power of currency. Inflation has shaped economic policies throughout history, from the currency debasement in ancient Rome to the hyperinflation crises of Weimar Germany and Zimbabwe. In alternate history scenarios, different inflation patterns can dramatically alter economic development, political stability, and social structures of divergent timelines.
What If Buenos Aires Developed Different Economic Policies?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Argentina's capital pursued economic stability rather than populist policies, potentially transforming Argentina into a Latin American economic powerhouse.
What If Monetarism Never Became Influential?
Exploring the alternate timeline where monetarist economic theory never gained prominence, potentially altering decades of economic policy, central banking practices, and the global fight against inflation.
What If The Gold Standard Was Never Abandoned?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the international gold standard persisted, fundamentally altering modern monetary policy, global economics, and geopolitical power structures.
What If The Great Inflation of The 1970s Never Happened?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the United States and global economies avoided the devastating inflation of the 1970s, potentially reshaping economic policy, politics, and social development for decades to come.
What If Rome Never Debased Its Currency?
Exploring how the Roman Empire's economic and political development might have unfolded if it had maintained sound monetary policy rather than engaging in the currency debasement that contributed to economic instability in the later Empire.