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Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Maxwell Reprint Company, Elmsford, NY. 1970. 215 pgs. Reprint of Yale studies in economics, Vol. 15. Bound in green cloth with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Historians of the period have generally played down the debasement of France's coinage to increase crown revenues during the Hundred Years' War or treated it as a last resort and an inept one. Based on archival data and an analytical framework drawn from the modern literature on inflation tax, this book supports challengers of that veiew, showing that debasement was an effective instrument of public fiance. E-84; 8vo 8"-9" tall.