The Closed World of East German Economists
Hopes and Defeats of a Generation
Series: Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 11 May 2023
- ISBN 9781009233095
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages340 pages
- Size 235x159x23 mm
- Weight 640 g
- Language English 469
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Short description:
The collective biography of the only generation of economists who lived their entire professional life in GDR's socialism.
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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 D&&&252;ppe 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.
'Recommended.' M. J. Frost, Choice
Table of Contents:
Introduction: East Germany's hope generation; Part I. Growing Into a Socialist Germany: 1. Socialist awakening; 2. Socialist role models; Part II. Becoming of Age During the Thaw: 3. Staging a scientific debate; 4. Negotiating socialist statistics; Part III. Reforming reforms towards bailout: 5. Ulbricht's modernist reforms; 6. Honecker's bourgeois reforms; Part IV. Letting Go: 7. Diverting West during the d&&&233;tente; 8. Saving socialism from the GDR; 9. Conclusion: Retiring with the state; References; Index.
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