书目名称 | Socialism with a Human Face |
副标题 | Using Behavioural Ec |
编辑 | Gary B. Magee,Wayne Geerling |
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概述 | Provides a more realistic appreciation and understanding of East German economic history.Offers fresh, new perspectives on a topic that has yet to seize potential of an important strand of economic th |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Economic History |
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描述 | .East Germany’s economic history is typically told as a story of the unravelling of an inherently flawed system. Yet, while the system’s inefficiency is undeniable, its economic history was much richer than its comparatively poor economic performance suggests. For many who lived there, it was a system that, over its forty years, was capable of achievements and generally functioned at bearable levels. This book combines the insights of behavioural economics with archival research to peel away layers of rhetoric and assumptions about the East German economy and explore aspects of that underlying functionality. .Through a series of cases studies that examine the establishment of socialist workplaces, the searches for productivity growth and efficiency, and the emergence of financial crisis, the book considers the system from the perspective of the humans who operated it and made the decisions that made it work. Unencumbered by political preconceptions, it offers a more realistic understanding of East German economic history than that derived from stagnant debates about the clash of systems. The new perspectives and approaches presented demonstrate that, extracted from its Cold War con |
出版日期 | Book 2022 |
关键词 | Economic History; East Germany; Command economies; Economic behaviour; Communist systems |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0664-0 |
isbn_softcover | 978-981-19-0666-4 |
isbn_ebook | 978-981-19-0664-0Series ISSN 2662-6497 Series E-ISSN 2662-6500 |
issn_series | 2662-6497 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapor |