"By many measures, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) had the strongest economy in the Eastern bloc and was one of the most important industrial nations worldwide. Nonetheless, the economic history of the GDR has been primarily discussed as a failure when compared with the economic success of...

Die Menschen in den ostdeutschen Bundesländern fühlen sich hin- und hergerissen zwischen den Normierungen der DDR-Vergangenheit und den Herausforderungen von Gegenwart und Zukunft. In der Zeit einer ökonomischen Krise und des Scheiterns von politisch geweckten Hoffnungen erweist sich das als...

After an initial take-off during the first eight years following unification, the Eastern German economy started to stall and regress to its old growth path of the 1950s and 1960s. The initial quick convergence only compensated for the dismal stagnation that the expropriation and concentration...