Playing Catch Up
Wolfgang Streeck: The German Exception, 4 May 2017
German Economic and Business History in the 19th and 20th Centuries
by Werner Plumpe.
Palgrave, 367 pp., £86, August 2016,978 1 137 51859 0 Show More
by Werner Plumpe.
Palgrave, 367 pp., £86, August 2016,
The Seven Secrets of Germany: Economic Resilience in an Era of Global Turbulence
by David Audretsch and Erik Lehmann.
Oxford, 229 pp., £22.99, February 2016,978 0 19 025869 6 Show More
by David Audretsch and Erik Lehmann.
Oxford, 229 pp., £22.99, February 2016,
Germany’s Role in the Euro Crisis: Berlin’s Quest for a More Perfect Monetary Union
by Franz-Josef Meiers.
Springer, 146 pp., £90, November 2016,978 3 319 37052 1 Show More
by Franz-Josef Meiers.
Springer, 146 pp., £90, November 2016,
“... 1945 unconditional surrender forced Germany, or what was left of its western part, into what Perry Anderson has called a ‘second round of capitalist transformation’ of the sort no other European country has ever had to undergo. Germany’s bout was a violent – sharp and short – push forward into social and economic ‘modernity’, driving it for ever ... ”