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...

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