There is perhaps nothing so commonplace and yet so mystifying as money. But to European communists, money was clearly an instrument of economic exploitation and spiritual alienation. In this groundbreaking study, Jonathan R. Zatlin explores the East German attempt to create a perfect society by...

Rudolf Richter stellt die zeitgenössische wissenschaftliche Diskussion zur (west-)deutschen Geldpolitik der vergangenen 50 Jahre dar. Dabei richtet er seinen Blick auf die internationale Debatte, die die deutsche Diskussion entscheidend beeinflußte. Die Darstellung erfolgt in vier...

The 2008 financial crisis led to more and more frequent political attacks on central banks. The recent spotlight on central bank independence is reminiscent of the fiery debates amongst Germany's political elites in 1949 on the same issue; debates that were sparked by the establishment of West...

"This book asks how Germany – a country long thought to be irrevocably European and committed to a more social market economy – could have emerged at the center of neoliberal restructuring in Europe."