The Closed World of East German Economists
The Closed World of East German Economists

Author: Till Düppe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-04-30

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1009233076

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History is replete with examples of scientists and social scientists working under the yoke of oppressive regimes. In The Closed World of East German Economists, Till Düppe tells the story of a generation of economists whose entire careers coincided with the forty-one-year existence of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In a micro-historical fashion, he examines the world of East German economists through the formative episodes in the lives of five different economists from this “hope” generation. Using both the perspective of the actors as expressed in interviews and archival material unknown to the actors, the book follows East German economics from the early days of the acceptance of Marxism-Leninism through to its interaction with Western economics and its eventual dissolution following the collapse of the Berlin Wall. It is fascinating insight into the challenges faced by economists in a unique period of European history.

The East German Economy, 1945-2010
The East German Economy, 1945-2010

Author: Hartmut Berghoff

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-10-07

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1107030137

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The contributors to this volume consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts.

The Closed World of East German Economists
The Closed World of East German Economists

Author: Till Düppe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-04-30

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1009233092

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The collective biography of the only generation of economists who lived their entire professional life in GDR's socialism.

How Will Capitalism End?
How Will Capitalism End?

Author: Wolfgang Streeck

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1784784028

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The provocative political thinker asks if it will be with a bang or a whimper In How Will Capitalism End? the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth is giving way to secular stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the capitalist money economy has all but evaporated. Capitalism’s shotgun marriage with democracy since 1945 is breaking up as the regulatory institutions restraining its advance have collapsed, and after the final victory of capitalism over its enemies no political agency capable of rebuilding them is in sight. The capitalist system is stricken with at least five worsening disorders for which no cure is at hand: declining growth, oligarchy, starvation of the public sphere, corruption and international anarchy. In this arresting book Wolfgang Streeck asks whether we are witnessing a long and painful period of cumulative decay: of intensifying frictions, of fragility and uncertainty, and of a steady succession of “normal accidents.”

Pricing the Priceless
Pricing the Priceless

Author: H. Spencer Banzhaf

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-10-31

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1108853064

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Historians of social science will benefit from the detailed examination of how economics expanded into new areas like the environment. Environmental historians will benefit from an understanding of how economics claimed to be 'on the side' of the environment. Environmental economists will benefit from the contextualization of their field.

Economic Thought in Communist and Post-Communist Europe
Economic Thought in Communist and Post-Communist Europe

Author: Hans-Jurgen Wagener

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1998-02-12

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1134681844

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Written by leading east European scholars, this book provides a wide-ranging overview of fifty years of economic thinking under communist rule in Europe and during the first phase of post-communist economic transformation.

East Germany’s Economic Development since Unification
East Germany’s Economic Development since Unification

Author: Anja Hochberg

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1349147052

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The first book in the Studies in Economic Transition series applies the theory of economic development to the economy of East Germany. Eight years after the unification of Germany, the book provides a comprehensive and much needed assessment of the transition process in the East, its impact on the German economy as a whole and the important broader lessons for European integration and enlargement. The unique economic experiment of the unification of the German economies provided an excellent opportunity for different schools of economic theory to be tested and examined. The contributors to this book take full advantage of this challenge.

The Economic Consequences of the Peace
The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Author: John Maynard Keynes

Publisher: Simon Publications LLC

Published: 1920

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9781931541138

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John Maynard Keynes, then a rising young economist, participated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 as chief representative of the British Treasury and advisor to Prime Minister David Lloyd George. He resigned after desperately trying and failing to reduce the huge demands for reparations being made on Germany. The Economic Consequences of the Peace is Keynes' brilliant and prophetic analysis of the effects that the peace treaty would have both on Germany and, even more fatefully, the world.

The Economic Consequences of the War
The Economic Consequences of the War

Author: Tamás Vonyó

Publisher: Cambridge Studies in Economic History: Second Series

Published: 2018-02-22

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1107128439

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This exploration of the statistical evidence on Germany's post-war reconstruction sheds new light on the foundations of German economic power.

Germany
Germany

Author:

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1135755183

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This text offers an interpretation of recent German economic performance. The German capitalist model relies upon a cooperative relationship between organized labour and the employers. This relationship has started to break down. This book asks why.