It is typical of the whole spirit of willing self-deception with which the average educated person approaches the so-called Enlightenment, that the most famous quote about it is false. Voltaire never said: "I disagree with your views, but I will fight to the death for your right to hold them", and if he had he would have been a liar. Voltaire was
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Have you by any chance read Trollope's wonderful short story, Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices? To the best of my knowledge, it's the only piece of literature on inflation, but it also illustrates much of what you say here.
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