Format:
1 online resource (262 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781107030138
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9781139343206
Series Statement:
Publications of the German Historical Institute
Content:
The contributors to this volume consider the economic history of East Germany within its broader political, cultural and social contexts
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I Introduction -- 1 From Centrally Planned Economy to Capitalist Avant-Garde? -- Beginnings, Crises, and Reforms: The Planned Economy, 1945-1971 -- Living beyond One's Means: The Long Decline, 1971-1989 -- Transformation, Subvention, and Renewal, 1989-2010 -- 2 From the Soviet Occupation Zone to the "New Eastern States" -- Starting Conditions -- Establishing the Planned Economy -- Forming Its Own National Economy? -- The Dawn of a New Foundation? -- Politics at the Expense of Economic Substance -- Collapse and Transformation -- Economic Development on a New Systematic Basis -- Part II Beginnings, Crises, and Reforms -- 3 Winner Takes All -- The Psychological Starting Position -- The Economic Structures of the Soviet Zone -- Trophies, Dismantling, and Reparations -- Money and Supply Crisis -- Cornerstones of Economic Regulation -- On the Way to the Centrally Planned Economy -- 4 National Socialist Autarky Projects and the Postwar Industrial Landscape -- The Legacy of Autarky Industries in Eastern Germany2 -- Eastern Germany's Starting Position after World War II -- Continuation of Prewar and Wartime Autarky Industries -- Synthetic Fuel, Rubber, and Fiber Production: The Chemical Industry -- Copper Mining -- "Anti-Import Production" Projects -- "Anti-Import Production" of Iron and Steel in the 1950s -- The Störfreimachung Period -- The Search for Crude Oil and Natural Gas -- The Microelectronics Industry -- Technology Imports -- What Happened to Autarky Production Sites after 1990? -- 5 Innovation and Ideology -- The High-Tech Sector in the East German Economy -- Werner Hartmann as Scientist and Businessman in East German Industry -- Hartmann's Quest for Technology -- Hartmann's Persecution -- New Dynamics at Carl Zeiss Jena -- Conclusion -- 6 East German Workers and the "Dark Side" of Eigensinn
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"Conflictual Stability" in a Divided Society -- Explaining the "Nonevent" of June 17, 1953 -- Conclusion: The "Dark Side" of Eigensinn -- Part III Living beyond One's Means -- 7 From Schadenfreude to Going-Out-of-Business Sale -- The Development of Primary Energy Usage and Petroleum-Related Foreign Trade in the German Democratic Republic in the 1970s and 1980s -- The Impact of the Energy Crises on the East German Economy -- Conclusions -- 8 Innovation in a Centrally Planned Economy -- Laying the Ground for Cooperation -- The Effects of Cooperation and Competition within Comecon -- Conclusion -- 9 Debt, Cooperation, and Collapse -- Basic Data: The Shift to the West -- Foreign Trade and the Economic Reforms of the 1960s -- The 1970s: A Change in Strategy? -- The 1980s: Driven by Debt -- Conclusion -- 10 Ulbricht's and Honecker's Volksstaat? -- Developmentalism or Militarism? -- Economy and Everyday Resistance the Two German Dictatorships -- Parallels -- Militarized Economies with and without War -- Part IV Transformation, Subvention, and Renewal, 1989-2010 -- 11 The East German Economy in the Twenty-First Century -- Convergence: A Question of Benchmarks -- Central Mechanisms of German Integration: Mobility and Structural Change -- Mobility of Capital versus Labor -- Structural Change -- Wild Cards: Agglomeration and Location -- Conclusion -- 12 The Social Policy of Unification and Its Consequences for the Transformation of the Economy in the New Eastern States -- Eastern Germany's Transformation from a Planned to a Market Economy Compared to Other Eastern European States -- The Treuhand Agency -- The Transfer of the West German Social System to Eastern Germany -- The Offer of Monetary Union -- The Eastern and Western Debates on Social Policy -- The Pension System -- Labor Market Policy -- Labor Relations
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The Eastern German Economy Twenty Years after Unification -- 13 German Economic Unification -- The Postwar Economic Experience of West Germany -- Initial Conditions -- Steady Growth -- Assessment -- The Postunification Experience -- Initial Conditions -- Steady Growth -- The Labor Market -- Financial Support and Social Insurance -- Manufacturing and Exports -- Conclusion -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Berghoff, Hartmut The East German Economy, 1945-2010 New York : Cambridge University Press,c2013 ISBN 9781107030138
Language:
English
Keywords:
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