Perspectives on Modern German Economic History and Policy Book

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.