Planning and international integration in Soviet Germany
The German Democratic Republic has developed into a powerful member of the Soviet bloc, and yet little attention has so far been paid to it. The author argues that communist propaganda pictures developments in East Germany as a triumph of socialist planning over inherited backwardness, while free-ma...
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Associazione Economia civile
2014-03-01
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| author | W.F. STOLPER |
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| description | The German Democratic Republic has developed into a powerful member of the Soviet bloc, and yet little attention has so far been paid to it. The author argues that communist propaganda pictures developments in East Germany as a triumph of socialist planning over inherited backwardness, while free-market economists consider every failure as proof of imminent collapse. Instead, East Germany is a very interesting case of its own due to the peculiarity of its resource endowment as well as the recent history of bombing and war damage.
JEL: O20, O52, P21
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| spelling | doaj.art-b6db50499da946f886fcc7d5628dd3872023-02-03T16:43:44ZengAssociazione Economia civilePSL Quarterly Review2037-36352037-36432014-03-01145710.13133/2037-3643/11897Planning and international integration in Soviet GermanyW.F. STOLPERThe German Democratic Republic has developed into a powerful member of the Soviet bloc, and yet little attention has so far been paid to it. The author argues that communist propaganda pictures developments in East Germany as a triumph of socialist planning over inherited backwardness, while free-market economists consider every failure as proof of imminent collapse. Instead, East Germany is a very interesting case of its own due to the peculiarity of its resource endowment as well as the recent history of bombing and war damage. JEL: O20, O52, P21 https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/psl_quarterly_review/article/view/11897Eastern GermanyGDRSoviet Unionsocialist planningdevelopment |
| spellingShingle | W.F. STOLPER Planning and international integration in Soviet Germany PSL Quarterly Review Eastern Germany GDR Soviet Union socialist planning development |
| title | Planning and international integration in Soviet Germany |
| title_full | Planning and international integration in Soviet Germany |
| title_fullStr | Planning and international integration in Soviet Germany |
| title_full_unstemmed | Planning and international integration in Soviet Germany |
| title_short | Planning and international integration in Soviet Germany |
| title_sort | planning and international integration in soviet germany |
| topic | Eastern Germany GDR Soviet Union socialist planning development |
| url | https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa04/psl_quarterly_review/article/view/11897 |
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