【BBC经济学】贪婪之梦8
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Pizarro
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http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201308/201308240827345252493.mp3The silver ore was ground up, refined with mercury and then shipped to Europe as bars and coins.
Empire, it seemed, had made the Spanish Crown rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
And yet, all the silver in the mines of Potosi couldn't halt the inexorable economic and political decline of Spain's Empire.
Why was that, when Pizarro seemed to have struck it so incredibly rich?
The answer is that the Spaniards had dug up so much silver to finance their wars of conquest, that the metal itself suffered an extraordinary decline in value.
More silver coins didn't make Spain richer, they simply made prices higher as an increased quantity of money chased the same amount of goods.
What the Spaniards didn't get was that money is only worth what other people will give in exchange for it.银矿运到地面上后经过水银提纯
做成银条和银币运往欧洲
表面上对印加的征服
给西班牙皇室带来了超乎想象的财富
但波托西矿脉中的白银
无法遏制西班牙帝国
经济上和政治上的颓势
皮萨罗掠夺了如此多财富
西班牙为什么还会落到如此田地
原因就是
为了支援他们的东征西伐
西班牙人挖了太多银子
致使银价大幅下跌
大量的银币没有使西班牙富裕起来
物价飞涨
购买同样的货品
需要更多的钱币
西班牙人没理解的是
货币的内在价值
是由其他人愿意拿什么来交换决定的
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