Ray Dalio explains this history in his books "How Countries Go Broke" and "Big Debt Crises".
His theory is that governments have a debt cycle, and printing money is just one point in that cycle.
You're just parroting the phrase "printing money". I'm asking if governments ever literally do (except in extremely defective examples).
You're just parroting the phrase "printing money". I'm asking if governments ever literally do (except in extremely defective examples).