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In this treatise we find an insightful analysis concerning how monetary debasement and inflation increase prices, which proceeds to illustrate how such increases do not affect everyone equally-in effect, causing a revolution in fortunes. In a parallel argument, Mariana explains how government, if given control of other forms of private property, would also debase the values of those forms and use them according to its own interests.

Juan de Mariana (1536 - 1624) fue un jesuita, teologo e historiador espanol. Su De rege et regis institutione, fue quemado en 1610 como subversivo por el parlamento de Paris tras el asesinato de Enrique IV de Francia; segun sus acusadores, esta obra habia dado legitimidad al tiranicidio, ya que su doctrina fue relacionada con el anterior asesinato de Enrique III de Francia. Asimismo, "marianos" eran llamados los revolucionarios franceses de 1789, que derrocaron la monarquia, en cuanto que seguidores del pensamiento de Juan de Mariana acerca de la legitimidad del tiranicidio. En base a ello...