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.


From Old Regime to Industrial State

From Old Regime to Industrial State

Author: Richard H. Tilly

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2020-10-26

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 022672557X

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In 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.


The Collapse of the German War Economy, 1944-1945

The Collapse of the German War Economy, 1944-1945

Author: Alfred C. Mierzejewski

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 146963970X

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In 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.


The Seven Secrets of Germany

The Seven Secrets of Germany

Author: David B. Audretsch

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0190258691

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Europe 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.


Selling the Economic Miracle

Selling the Economic Miracle

Author: Mark E. Spicka

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9781845452230

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Through 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.


Economic Growth in Europe Since 1945

Economic Growth in Europe Since 1945

Author: N. F. R. Crafts

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-04-18

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13: 9780521499644

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This 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.


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.


Strategies of Economic Order

Strategies of Economic Order

Author: Keith Tribe

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-04-19

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780521619431

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This book provides an overview of 200 years of German economic thought from the eighteenth century to the Social Market.


The German Economy in the Twentieth Century (Routledge Revivals)

The German Economy in the Twentieth Century (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Hans-Joachim Braun

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-10-22

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1136836446

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First 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.


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.