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Author: Hartmut Berghoff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-10-07
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1107030137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contributors to this volume consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts.
Author: Richard H. Tilly
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-10-26
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 022672557X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany’s industrialization. While some hold that Germany experienced a sudden breakthrough to industrialization, the authors instead consider a long view, incorporating market demand, agricultural advances, and regional variations in industrial innovativeness, customs, and governance. They begin their assessment earlier than previous studies to show how the 18th-century emergence of international trade and the accumulation of capital by merchants fed commercial expansion and innovation. This book provides the history behind the modern German economic juggernaut.
Author: Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2017-10-10
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 146963970X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book Alfred Mierzejewski describes how the German economy collapsed under Allied bombing in the last year of World War II. He presents a broad-based, original study of German wartime industry and transportation, and of Allied air force planning and intelligence, including the first complete analysis in English of the German National Railway. The German industrial economy was extraordinarily dependent on the timely, adequate distribution of coal by railroad and inland waterway. The German National Railway in particular was the pivot of the finely balanced armaments production and distribution system created by Albert Speer. But Allied strategists did not immediately recognize this. Only in late 1944, when Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Sir Arthur Tedder built a new strategic consensus, was this vital coal/transport nexus severed. The result was the rapid paralysis of the Nazi war economy. Mierzejewski measures the economic consequences of the bombing by considering broad indices such as armaments and coal production, railway performance, and weapons deliveries to the armed forces. In addition, he shows how individual companies in each of Germany's major economic regions fared. By drawing on previously unexamined files of private German manufacturing companies, the Reich Transportation Ministry, and Allied air intelligence agencies, Mierzejewski creates a rare combination of economic analysis and military history that provides new perspectives on the German war economy and Allied air intelligence.
Author: Mark E. Spicka
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781845452230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough an examination of election campaign propaganda and various public relations campaigns, reflecting new electioneering techniques borrowed from the United States, this work explores how conservative political and economic groups sought to construct and sell a political meaning of the Social Market Economy and the Economic Miracle in West Germany during the 1950s.The political meaning of economics contributed to conservative electoral success, constructed a new belief in the free market economy within West German society, and provided legitimacy and political stability for the new Federal Republic of Germany.
Author: David B. Audretsch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0190258691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEurope and much of the developed world have been bogged down by stagnant economic growth and alarmingly high rates of unemployment. But not Germany. This book reveals seven key aspects of the German economy and society that have provided considerable buoyance in an era of global turbulence.
Author: N. F. R. Crafts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-04-18
Total Pages: 636
ISBN-13: 9780521499644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis compelling volume re-examines the topic of economic growth in Europe after the Second World War. The contributors approach the subject armed not only with new theoretical ideas, but also with the experience of the 1980s on which to draw. The analysis is based on both applied economics and on economic history. Thus, while the volume is greatly informed by insights from growth theory, emphasis is given to the presentation of chronological and institutional detail. The case study approach and the adoption of a longer-run perspective than is normal for economists allow new insights to be obtained. As well as including chapters that consider the experience of individual European countries, the book explores general European institutional arrangements and historical circumstances. The result is a genuinely comparative picture of post-war growth, with insights that do not emerge from standard cross-section regressions based on the post-1960 period.
Author: Tamás Vonyó
Publisher: Cambridge Studies in Economic History: Second Series
Published: 2018-02-22
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1107128439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis exploration of the statistical evidence on Germany's post-war reconstruction sheds new light on the foundations of German economic power.
Author: Keith Tribe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-04-19
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521619431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an overview of 200 years of German economic thought from the eighteenth century to the Social Market.
Author: Hans-Joachim Braun
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-10-22
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1136836446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1990, this book traces the logic and the peculiarities of German economic development through the Weimar Republic, Third Reich and Federal Republic. Providing a comprehensive analysis of the period. The book also assesses controversial issues, such as the origins of the Great Depression, the primacy of politics or economics in the decision to invade Poland and the future risks to the Weltmeister economy of the Federal Republic oppressed by unemployment, the huge debts of some of its trading partners, and the possibility of worldwide protectionism.
Author: Michael Albert
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2009-01-27
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1870332547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommunism has collapsed. Capitalism has rid itself of the competition on which it thrives. But though now victorious, capitalism has become a threat. The future of us all may be shaped by the outcome of the conflict between capitalism as victor and capitalism as threat. Not only in Europe, but also in the US and Japan - and no doubt shortly in the Eastern countries too - the great debate is capitalism versus capitalism. On the one hand is the "neo-American" model based on individual achievement and short-term profits. On the other is the Rhine model practices in Switzerland, Germany, Benelux, Northern Europe and, partly, in Japan. In the Rhine model collective achievement and public concensus are seen as the keys to long-term success. The first is more seductive, the second more effective. These two opposing forms of capitalism are engaged in a war which, like all internal conflicts, involves both secrecy and even hypocrisy. The outcome of this struggle could affect the quality of life on all levels of society. The author of this book aims to provide a synthesis which will force the reader to consider the political and economic issues at stake towards the end of the century.
