Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary and abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Official statistics and the crisis of the Wilhelmine state -- 2 The Republic's new numbers, 1918-1923 -- 3 Weimar's macroeconomic statistics, 1924-1929 -- 4 The crisis of Weimar's...

"This book is a short, accessible guide to six topics: jobs, house prices, inequality, prices for goods and services, poverty, and deprivation. Each relates to concepts we use on a personal level to form an understanding of the society in which we live: We need a job, a place to live, and food...