Author : Hartmut Berghoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 32,81 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 : Wolfgang F. Stolper
Publisher : Cambridge, Harvard U.P
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Albrecht Ritschl
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,37 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Germany
ISBN :
Author : Ian Jeffries
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 39,67 MB
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351745603
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 : André Steiner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 178238314X
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 : Steiner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 33,45 MB
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845458560
"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." This study offers an in-depth exploration of the GDR economy's starting conditions and the obstacles to growth it confronted during the consolidation phase.--[book cover].
Author : Sabine Spangenberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3642488544
"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 : Hartmut Berghoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1108577768
By many measures, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) had the strongest economy in the Eastern bloc and was one of the most important industrial nations worldwide. Nonetheless, the economic history of the GDR has been primarily discussed as a failure when compared with the economic success of the Federal Republic and is often cited as one of the pre-eminent examples of central planning's deficiencies. This volume analyzes both the successes and failures of the East German economy. The contributors consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts. Rather than limit their perspective to the period of the GDR's existence, the essays additionally consider the decades before 1945 and the post-1990 era. Contributors also trace the present and future of the East German economy and suggest possible outcomes.
Author : Jaap Sleifer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 3050085398
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 : Phillip J. Bryson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,7 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349216895
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.
