Currency of Socialism: Money and Political Culture in East Germany Book

Part I. Production:

1. Making and unmaking money: monetary theory and economic planning in East Germany;
2. Accounting and accountability: financing the planned economy under Honecker, 1971-1980;
3. Parsimony and the prince: crisis and stability, 1980-1985;
4. The currency of decline: the disintegration of the East German economy;

Part II. Consumption:
5. The vehicle of desire: the Trabant, the Wartburg, and the discipline of demand;
6. Consuming ideology: the intershops, Genex, and retail trade under Honecker;
7. Appealing to authority: the citizens' petition and the rhetoric of decline.