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The collective biography of the only generation of economists who lived their entire professional life in GDR's socialism.
Author : Till Düppe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,3 MB
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1009233092
The collective biography of the only generation of economists who lived their entire professional life in GDR's socialism.
Author : Till Düppe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1009233076
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.
Author : Hartmut Berghoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 31,14 MB
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107030137
The contributors to this volume consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts.
Author : Gerlinde Sinn
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,33 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262691727
The unification of Germany is a policy issue of worldwide interest and holds key lessons for the remaining post-socialist economies. This text presents a clearly argued analytical account of the reunification process and the policy alternatives.
Author : Hans-Werner Sinn
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 16,41 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Competition, Unfair
ISBN : 0262195585
This pointed, hard-hitting and incisive analysis of Germany's economic malaise is hardly calculated to win popular applause in Germany. Hans-Werner Sinn finds that Germany's dearest child, the welfare state, is the cause of its economic problems. Many Germans rely on transfer payments, so it is politically unfeasible for politicians to reduce the scope of government spending and correct the distortions it causes. However, the author argues quite convincingly that the welfare state is simply unsustainable in its current form. getAbstract recommends this book to anyone interested in the future of Germany and, for that matter, in the future of the modern welfare state.
Author : Wolfgang Streeck
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1784784028
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.”
Author : Friedrich List
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,51 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Economics
ISBN :
Author : Ronald Schettkat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 2008-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134044429
This book offers a fresh, innovative analysis of contemporary German economic policy, containing essays from non-Germanic, internationally distinguished economists from around the world, arguing for a more expansionary macroeconomic policy.
Author : Erwin Dekker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 35,6 MB
Release : 2021-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108495990
This biography presents the interaction between his socialist ideals, scientific aspirations and work as an economic expert.
Author : Albrecht O. Ritschl
Publisher :
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 1994
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ISBN :