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  • Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition

    Evidence from East Germany and Poland

    Edited by Jutta Günther, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Udo Ludwig, Hans-Jürgen Wagener ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book examines how different economic systems impacted the development of East Germany and Poland. Through comparing these countries while they were centrally planned socialist economies with the periods when they transitioned to capitalism, the inability of socialist economies to modernize effectively and produce sustained economic growth is highlighted. Particular attention is ... Read more

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  • Communist Planning versus Rationality

    Mathematical Economics and the Central Plan in Eastern Europe and China

    by Andrei Belykh, Maciej Bukowski, Valentin Cojanu, Kaloyan Ganev, Julius Horvath, Gergely Kohegyi, Xiuli Liu, Udo Ludwig, Wojciech Maciejewski, Joze Mencinger, Stefan Petranov0, Grigore Ioan Pirosca1, Minghui Qin2, Knut Richter3, Hans-Jurgen Wagener4, Xin Xiang5, Shan Zheng6, Roumen Avramov7, Dr. János Mátyás Kovács8 ...
    Series series Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic and Political Thought in Historical Perspective
    This volume examines concepts of central planning, a cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies. It revolves around the theory of “optimal planning” which promised a profound modernization of Stalinist-style verbal planning. Encouraged by cybernetic dreams in the 1950s and supporting the strategic goals of communist leaders in the Cold War, optimal planners offered the ruling elites ... Read more

    $138.99 CAD

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    by Philipp Ther ...
    Translated by Charlotte Hughes-Kreutzmüller ...
    An award-winning history of the transformation of Europe between 1989 and todayThe year 1989 brought the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. It was also the year that the economic theories of Reagan, Thatcher, and the Chicago School achieved global dominance. And it was these neoliberal ideas that largely determined the course of the political, economic, and ... Read more

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  • In Defense of Capitalism

    Debunking the Myths

    by Rainer Zitelmann ...
    Capitalism, its critics say, prioritizes profits over humanity, creates dominant monopolies, and undermines democracy. Zitelmann scrutinizes each of these arguments in turn and reveals the critical flaws that debunk them.Rainer Zitelmann examines the ten most common objections to capitalism: that capitalism leads to hunger and poverty, to rising inequality, to unnecessary consumption, to ... Read more

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  • Creating the Nazi Marketplace

    Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich

    by S. Jonathan Wiesen ...
    When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they promised to build a vibrant consumer society. But they faced a dilemma. They recognized that consolidating support for the regime required providing Germans with the products they desired. At the same time, the Nazis worried about the degrading cultural effects of mass consumption and its association with 'Jewish' interests. This book examines how both ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Basic and Applied Research

    The Language of Science Policy in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Désirée Schauz, David Kaldewey ...
    Series Book 4 - European Conceptual History
    The distinction between basic and applied research was central to twentieth-century science and policymaking, and if this framework has been contested in recent years, it nonetheless remains ubiquitous in both scientific and public discourse. Employing a transnational, diachronic perspective informed by historical semantics, this volume traces the conceptual history of the basic–applied ... Read more

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  • Trams or Tailfins?

    Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States

    by Jan L. Logemann ...
    In the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies. Since then, much has been made of a supposed “Americanization” of European consumer societies—in Germany and elsewhere. Arguing against these foggy notions*,* Jan L. Logemann takes a comparative look at the development of postwar mass consumption ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Selling the Economic Miracle

    Economic Reconstruction and Politics in West Germany, 1949-1957

    by Mark E. Spicka ...
    Series Book 18 - Monographs in German History
    Through an examination of election campaign propaganda and various public relations campaigns, reflecting new electioneering techniques borrowed from the United States, this work explores how conservative political and economic groups sought to construct and sell a political meaning of the Social Market Economy and the Economic Miracle in West Germany during the 1950s.The political meaning of ... Read more

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  • Germany and China

    How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security

    by Andreas Fulda ...
    As Europe finds itself once again caught between two superpowers – the USA and a rising China – little has been written about a relationship that will have a profound influence on the international order: the relationship between the People's Republic of China and Germany.In Germany and China, leading international relations expert Andreas Fulda looks critically at the increasingly interdependent ... Read more

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  • Becoming Madam Chancellor

    Angela Merkel and the Berlin Republic

    by Joyce Marie Mushaben ...
    Since 2005, Angela Merkel has transformed not only the way Germans see themselves but also the way that politicians worldwide, male and female, perceive women in power. The East German daughter of a Protestant pastor, this physicist-turned-politician has deployed her life experiences to cultivate a unique set of leadership skills. Her pragmatic, data-driven, and future-oriented approach to ... Read more

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  • The Seven Secrets of Germany

    Economic Resilience in an Era of Global Turbulence

    by David B. Audretsch, Erik E. Lehmann ...
    German economic performance has astonished the world. At the turn of the century, Germany had been written off as the sick man of Europe. No more. Even as most of its European neighbors and OECD trading partners have struggled in the face of a turbulent global economy, the German economy has thrived. How does Germany do it? What is the secret? In The Seven Secrets of Germany, authors David ... Read more

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  • Staging the New Berlin

    Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention Post-1989

    by Claire Colomb ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of ‘urban reinvention’ in Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring processes, changes in urban governance and physical transformation of the city following the Fall of the Wall, the ‘new’ Berlin was not only being built physically, but staged for visitors and Berliners and marketed ... Read more

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