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Author : Hartmut Berghoff,Uta Andrea Balbier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107030138
The contributors to this volume consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts.
Author : Ian Jeffries,Manfred Melzer,Eleonore Breuning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351745604
Originally published in 1987, this book brings together leading authorities from Germany and the USA who analyze how the East German economy actually operated - planning and management, pricing, investment and innovation, the financial system, agriculture and foreign trade (including the special concessions granted by the then Federal Republic of Germany). The volume is an insightful study of one of the least studied and most successful of socialist economies.
Author : Wolfgang F. Stolper
Publisher : Cambridge, Harvard U.P
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015002286717
Author : André Steiner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782383147
The establishment of the Communist social model in one part of Germany was a result of international postwar developments, of the Cold War waged by East and West, and of the resultant partition of Germany. As the author argues, the GDR's 'new' society was deliberately conceived as a counter-model to the liberal and marketregulated system. Although the hopes connected with this alternative system turned out to be misplaced and the planned economy may be thoroughly discredited today, it is important to understand the context in which it developed and failed. This study, a bestseller in its German version, offers an in-depth exploration of the GDR economy's starting conditions and the obstacles to growth it confronted during the consolidation phase. These factors, however, were not decisive in the GDR's lack of growth compared to that of the Federal Republic. As this study convincingly shows, it was the economic model that led to failure.
Author : Gareth Dale
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3039101811
This book is an exploration of the economic history of the German Democratic Republic, with an emphasis upon its confrontation by and contribution towards economic and military competition on the world stage. Beginning with an analysis of the Soviet bloc as a state-capitalist formation, the GDR's economic history is charted, with detailed examinations of the challenges to Soviet-style autarky that were posed by the globalising world market, as well as of GDR policymakers' attempts to use Western imports and credits as a 'whip' to spur growth. The book's central section consists of an exploration of the ambivalent attitudes of East German policymakers and industrialists towards their West German counterparts in the 1980s, as the whip was transformed into an ever-tightening noose of debt. Here, a prodigious range of secondary sources as well as hitherto unpublished documents from the archives of the old regime are drawn upon to document the means by which relative economic decline and dependency upon Western institutions came to constrain the options available to the East German nomenklatura. Finally, this study analyses the political economy of the 1989 revolution and unification and of post-unification Eastern Germany.
Author : Jaap Sleifer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783050085395
Für diese Untersuchung wurde dem Autor am 13. 9. 2007 der René Kuczynski-Preis für herausragende Publikationen auf dem Gebiet der Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte verliehen. Der Autor definiert die Wirtschaftsleistung Ostdeutschlands im Vergleich zu Westdeutschland neu. Dazu zieht er in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur vorliegende Berechnungen und eigene Schätzungen heran. Zum einen bestimmt er die Wirtschaftsleistung für die Stichjahre 1936 und 1954 neu, um den Einfluss der Startbedingungen abschätzen zu können. Außerdem berechnet er die Produktion der Industrie und ihrer Branchen auf Basis physischer Angaben für den Zeitraum 1936-1991 sowie darauf aufbauend das gesamte Bruttoinlandsprodukt Ostdeutschlands neu. Die erzielten Ergebnisse sind innovativ und erweitern unser Wissen über Niveau und Entwicklung der Wirtschaft auf dem Gebiet der DDR. Es handelt sich um die derzeit beste, breiteste, fundierteste Berechnung der Wirtschaftsentwicklung der DDR, und zwar im Vergleich mit Westdeutschland.
Author : Anja Hochberg,Jens Hölscher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349147052
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.
Author : Sabine Spangenberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642488542
"It is, perhaps, worth stressing that economic problems arise always and only in consequence of change. So long as things continue as before, or at least as they were expected to, there arise no new problems requiring a decision, no need to form a plan. " (Hayek, 1945, p. 523) This book is based on my research for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy which I received from Lancaster University, England in the second half of 1997. It is an analysis of the structural transformation of the economic system in East Germany and the behavioural relations these changes imply. The approach of institutionalised transformation (not the least by the creation of the Treuhandanstalt) is examined with a theory-based framework which is derived from system-theoretical, evolutionary and constitutional-ethical considerations as well as from the newly developed adjustment model which has been constructed as a dynamic transformation approach. A relationship between norm changes, the new institutional framework of the economic system and the compatibility of the latter with changes of the remaining partial societal systems is recognised. Rigidity factors in the system's flexibility to react as well as the adjustment of economic behaviour to structural changes are analysed. The "marginal product of system change" is defined (section 2. 8. 2).
Author : Phillip J. Bryson,Manfred Melzer
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349216895
This economic history of the Honecker era investigates the causes and effects of the regime's refusal to be a part of East European economic reform. The legacies of central planning had important implications for the reform prospects of the post-Honecker economy. The authors examine the factors which ultimately caused the East German people to choose the path of economic merger with West Germany in this first single publication covering the broad scope of the economic decline of East German socialism.
Author : Chris Flockton,Eva Kolinsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136324901
The transformation of east Germany since unification has wrought vast changes in the economy and in society and left deep scars as the types of social protection offered by the centralised socialism of the previous regime gave way to uncertainties and individualised life chances. Social Transformation in Eastern Germany investigates the deep economic and social processes which east Germany has undergone, highlighting the restructuring, the social impacts and the stresses of adjustment experienced by key social groups whose workplace and social context has been recast almost out of recognition since 1990.
Author : James Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Germany (East)
ISBN : MINN:31951D03297079X
Author : Jeffrey Kopstein
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807862599
Jeffrey Kopstein offers the first comprehensive study of East German economic policy over the course of the state's forty-year history. Analyzing both the making of economic policy at the national level and the implementation of specific policies on the shop floor, he provides new and essential background to the revolution of 1989. In particular, he shows how decisions made at critical junctures in East Germany's history led to a pattern of economic decline and worker dissatisfaction that contributed to eventual political collapse. East Germany was generally considered to have the most successful economy in the Eastern Bloc, but Kopstein explores what prevented the country's leaders from responding effectively to pressing economic problems. He depicts a regime caught between the demands of a disaffected working class whose support was crucial to continued political stability, an intractable bureaucracy, an intolerant but surprisingly weak Soviet patron state, and a harsh international economic climate. Rather than pushing for genuine economic change, the East German Communist Party retreated into what Kopstein calls a 'campaign economy' in which an endless series of production campaigns was used to squeeze greater output from an inherently inefficient economic system. Originally published in 1996. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author : Gary B. Magee,Wayne Geerling
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811906640
East Germany’s economic history is typically told as a story of the unravelling of an inherently flawed system. Yet, while the system’s inefficiency is undeniable, its economic history was much richer than its comparatively poor economic performance suggests. For many who lived there, it was a system that, over its forty years, was capable of achievements and generally functioned at bearable levels. This book combines the insights of behavioural economics with archival research to peel away layers of rhetoric and assumptions about the East German economy and explore aspects of that underlying functionality. Through a series of cases studies that examine the establishment of socialist workplaces, the searches for productivity growth and efficiency, and the emergence of financial crisis, the book considers the system from the perspective of the humans who operated it and made the decisions that made it work. Unencumbered by political preconceptions, it offers a more realistic understanding of East German economic history than that derived from stagnant debates about the clash of systems. The new perspectives and approaches presented demonstrate that, extracted from its Cold War context, East Germany’s economic history can be analysed for what it was, rather than for what it symbolised.
Author : Jeffrey Kopstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Germany
ISBN : IND:30000063959575
Author : Paul J.J. Welfens
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783642973796
German unification is changing central Europe, the EC and international economic and political relations. Prosperous West Germany with its "social market economy" has absorbed the socialist GDR which is facing a complex systemic tranformation process. This volume analyzes the causes, developments, and processes that are associated with German unification. The merger of the two Germanies provides a unique laboratory like example of institutional and economic changes against which established economic theoreis and economic policy concepts can be tested. German unification raises, of course, many new questions for Grmany itself, Europe, and the whole international community. Will the enlarged Germany become a new economic giant in Europe and can the FRG maintain stability and prosperity? What macroeconomic and structural problems are faced by the new Germany and what are the effects for trade, investment, and growth in Germany`s partner countries? Will East Germany catch up with the West and can this process serve as a model forEastern Europe? What are the views of Poland and the USSR, and what implications arise for Western Europe and the United States? Finally, how isthe triangular relationship between the U.S., the EC, and Japan affected, and how does this affect the United States` ability to organize economic cooperation with Japan, Germany, and other leading economies?
