Zimbabwe
The canonical modern hyperinflation, and the reason to read Zimbabwe at all: property seizure, monetary financing, currency collapse and eventual dollarisation, inside a decade. Haslam and Lamberti cover the monetary story, Scoones the land-reform outcomes with real data, and Coltart supplies the insider view from inside government.
7 books
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- When Money Destroys Nations: How Hyperinflation Ruined ZimbabwePhilip Haslam, Russell Lamberti, 2014
- Mugabe: Power, Plunder and the Struggle for ZimbabweMartin Meredith, 2008
- Zimbabwe's Land Reform: Myths and RealitiesIan Scoones, 2010
Books 7
Martin Meredith · 2004 · The land seizures and the destruction of commercial agriculture, in continental context.
Martin Meredith · 2008 · The political mechanics of expropriation and monetary financing, told straight.
David Coltart · 2016 · Insider account by a cabinet minister through dollarisation and the unity government.
Ian Scoones · 2010 · Ten years of field data on what actually happened to seized farmland.
Philip Haslam, Russell Lamberti · 2014 · First-hand accounts of trading, saving and pricing through the collapse; the modern companion to Fergusson.
Douglas Rogers · 2019 · The 2017 coup reported from inside, including its business backers.
Richard Saunders, Tinashe Nyamunda · 2016 · The Marange diamond fields; how an extractive rent was captured militarily.