Perspectives on Modern German Economic History and Policy

' … a collection of illuminating, crisply written and pugnacious essays on the economic history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany, thematically united in that they rest on the application to specific situations of long-run perspectives. They have become 'classic' articles in that they have opened up major new areas of investigation.' Harold James, Princeton University

• List of figures; List of tables; Preface to the English edition; Preface to the German editon; List of original chapter titles and first places of publication; Abbreviations; 1. Protectionism in historical perspective; 2. Was there a capital shortage in the first half of the nineteenth century in Germany; 3. Regional variations in growth in Germany in the nineteenth century with particular reference to the west-east developmental gradient; 4. Investment in education and instruction in the nineteenth century; 5. Changes in the phenomenon of the business cycle over the last hundred years; 6. Trends, cycles, structural breaks, chance: what determines twentieth-century German economic history?; 7. The Federal Republic of Germany in the secular trend of economic development; 8. Germany's experience of inflation; 9. Constraints and room for manoeuvre in the great depression of the early thirties: towards a revision of the received historical picture; 10. Economic causes of the collapse of the Weimar Republic; 11. Germany's exchange rate options during the great depression; Notes; Index.