Economic Crisis and Reform in East Germany
Author | : Heinz Carl Oerman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Germany |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Heinz Carl Oerman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Germany |
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Author | : Gert Leptin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James G. Styles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1978 |
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Author | : André Steiner |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : 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 | : Horst K. Betz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Decentralization in government |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark Landsman |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674039920 |
An investigation into the politics of consumerism in East Germany during the years between the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, Dictatorship and Demand shows how the issue of consumption constituted a crucial battleground in the larger Cold War struggle. Based on research in recently opened East German state and party archives, this book depicts a regime caught between competing pressures. While East Germany's leaders followed a Soviet model, which fetishized productivity in heavy industry and prioritized the production of capital goods over consumer goods, they nevertheless had to contend with the growing allure of consumer abundance in West Germany. The usual difficulties associated with satisfying consumer demand in a socialist economy acquired a uniquely heightened political urgency, as millions of East Germans fled across the open border. A new vision of the East-West conflict emerges, one fought as much with washing machines, televisions, and high fashion as with political propaganda, espionage, and nuclear weapons. Dictatorship and Demand deepens our understanding of the Cold War.
Author | : Kenneth Dyson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2014-07-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317998545 |
This new volume situates current debates about economic reform in Germany in illuminating historical and structural contexts. Showing how economic reform has become the central issue on the German political agenda, raising contentious issues of policy management and posing deeper questions about political beliefs and identities. It also examines the politics of the reform process, outlining competing views about the root causes of Germany’s economic problems, the appropriate policy responses, and the distribution of costs. It situates the reform process in the wider context of the decline of the German economic model (Modell Deutschland) and Germany’s transition from European ‘pace-setter’ to economic ‘laggard’. Particular attention is paid to the following key questions: What continuities and discontinuities can be seen in Germany's political economy? Are globalization and Europeanization associated with a progressive neo-liberal ascendancy in economic reform? How does economic reform in Germany compare with that in other states, notably Britain and France? Are there distinctive patterns in the way domestic policymakers negotiate economic reform? How do the characteristics of the German labour market and welfare state condition economic reform? How much variation exists at the Laender levels? This book was previously published as a special issue of German Politics.
Author | : Jeffrey Kopstein |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, 1945-1989
Author | : Bruno Dallago |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2016-05-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317625234 |
The global financial crisis has provided an important opportunity to revisit debates about post-socialist transition and the relative success of different reform paths. Post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) in particular show resilience in the wake of the international crisis with a diverse range of economic transformations. Transformation and Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe offers an in depth analysis of a diverse range of countries, including Poland, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic and Slovakia. This volume assesses each country’s institutional transformations, geopolitical policies, and local adaptations that have led them down divergent post-communist paths. Chapters take the reader systematically through the evolution of former communist national economic systems, before ending with lessons and conclusions for the future. Subsequent chapters demonstrate that economic performance crucially depends on achieving a sustainable balance between sound institutional design and policies on one hand, and localization on the other. This new volume from a prestigious group of academics offers a fascinating and timely study which will be of interest to all scholars and policy makers with an interest in European Economics, Russian and East European Studies, Transition Economies, Political Economy and the post-2008 world more generally.
Author | : Steven Saxonberg |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1351544667 |
With a foreword by Seymour Lipset, Hoover Institution and George Mason University, USAThe Fall examines one of the twentieth century's great historical puzzles: why did the communist-led regimes in Eastern Europe collapse so quickly and why was the process of collapse so different from country to country? This major study explains why the impetus for change in Poland and Hungary came from the regimes themselves, while in Czechoslovakia and East Germany it was mass movements which led to the downfall of the regimes.