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The General Maximum or Law of the Maximum was a law created during the course of the French Revolution as an extension of the Law of Suspects on 29 September 1793. It succeeded the 4 May 1793 ''loi du maximum'' which had the same purpose: setting price limits, detering price gouging, and allowing for the continued flow of food supply to the people of France.〔White, E. "The French Revolution and the Politics of Government Finance, 1770–1815." ''The Journal of Economic History'' 1995, p 244〕 ==Historical conditions enabling the General Maximum== Competing theories exist as to the causes of the conditions the General Maximum was intended to ameliorate. Eugene White, in his 1995 publication "The French Revolution and the Politics of Government Finance, 1770–1815", puts forward the view that years of revolution, international conflicts, and poor climate conditions had led to an economic environment with very high inflation and food shortages throughout France.〔White, E. "The French Revolution and the Politics of Government Finance, 1770–1815." ''The Journal of Economic History'' 1995, p 236-238〕 Andrew Dickson White, Professor of History at Cornell, suggests that the ever greater and ultimately uncontrolled issuance of paper money authorised by the National Assembly was at the root of France's economic failure and most certainly the cause of its increasingly rampant inflation 〔White, A.D, "Fiat Money Inflation in France" 1912, The White Collection at the Cornell University, http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/subjects/frrev.html〕 Although it varied according to region, the maximum price for first necessity goods was about one third higher than the 1790 prices, while the legal maximum fixed to the wages was about half higher than the average level in 1790. Committee members feared new and more radical revolutionaries were being created by the crisis. This fear was intensified on 5 September 1793 when the sans-culottes invaded the National Convention demanding "Food- and to have it, force for the law."〔Palmer, RR. ''Twelve Who Ruled''. Princeton University Press, 1970, p. 47〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「General maximum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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