Currently there is much discussion as to whether the chapter of West Germany’s post-war history popularly known as the "Economic Miracle" can be repeated in the region of the former GDR. Professor Lang presents a series of factors which encouraged the West German economic miracle at that time,...

Is there a stable quantitative relationship between the exports of developing countries and prosperity in developed countries? The controversy between Lewis and Riedel on this question is taken up anew in this paper and examined in the light of ten years of added data and by estimating...