Tobias Straumann is an Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Zurich. He has widely published in the area of twentieth-century European financial and monetary history, and is the author of Fixed Ideas of Money, and coauthor of The Value of Risk.
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Germany's financial collapse in the summer of 1931 was one of the biggest economic catastrophes of modern history. It led to a global panic, brought down the international monetary system, and turned a worldwide recession into a prolonged depression. The ... SEE MORE