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“Poliklinik” in the German Democratic Republic after 1945: The Unification of Outpatient and Inpatient Care in Hospitals
In this chapter the history of the outpatient departments, their fields of activity, financing, the actors involved and the health policy objectives...
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Trust and German-Russian Energy Cooperation
This chapter examines the formation of trust in levels of trade and joint venture partnerships between German companies and their Russian...
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Cliometrics and the Study of German History
In this chapter we trace cliometric research on German history. Our narrative is based on a newly constructed database of every publication which (1)...
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Being a long distance out-commuter or home employee in a rather peripheral region evidence of a German federal state
Many firms in Germany are short of qualified workers, whereby East German regions are particularly affected because of the out-migration to West...
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Bismarck and the German Model of Consensus
To describe the German industrial economy as a unique consensus-driven industrial civilization buttressed by deep research and extensive social...
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Taking Part, Apart: Inclusion of Researchers from the German Democratic Republic in Their International Scientific Communities
In this chapter, we present a discussion of ways in which researchers in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) became recognised members of their...
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The Impact of Systemic Transition on the European Community
The first, spectacular effect of the 1989 revolutions was the coming down of the Berlin Wall and the fast re-unification of Germany, first de facto...
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Johann Friedrich Pfeiffer on Adam Smith: An Early Reception of Adam Smith in the German States
Different from the usual portrayal that it was not until the turn of the nineteenth century that Adam Smith’s work became influential, the extensive...
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Public Employment Agency Reform, Matching Efficiency, and German Unemployment
Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the restructuring of the Federal Employment...
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From Schmoller’s Socialpolitik to Müller-Armack’s Social Market Economy: A Reconstruction of the German Conservative Discourse on the Social Regulation of Capitalist Market Systems
The concept of the social market economy, formulated by German economist Alfred Müller-Armack in the 1940s, reiterates a much older German discourse...
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The Petition to the Federal Assembly—A German “Place of Remembrance”
In the 1980s and 1990s, the French historian and publicist Pierre Nora published a seven-volume work entitled “Les lieux de mémoire”, in which he...
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The Re-allocation of Entrepreneurial Talent During Transition from Socialism to Market Economy: Some Conceptual Thoughts
One of the stylized facts in the literature is that the level and quality of entrepreneurship is determined by institutional framework conditions—the...
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Historical Legacies of Regional Innovation Activity: The Case of East and West Germany
We investigate how 40 years of a communist regime in East Germany and the subsequent German unification affected innovation activities. The empirical...
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Europe, the Euro and German Demographic Renewal
Access to the domestic market is nowadays the trump card of trade diplomacy. The larger the domestic market, the more effective it is. The euroEuro...
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The Rocky Road to European Monetary Union: A German Perspective
To understand the German attitude toward European integration, two aspects are essential. One is the collapse of the German economy and the...
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State formation, social unrest and cultural distance
What determines violent reaction during state formation processes? To address this question, we exploit the uprisings that occurred when southern...
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Inflation and Macroeconomic Management in Selected Countries from the Late-1960s to the Mid-1980s
In this chapter we discuss, in detail, developments in the Federal Republic of Germany, until the unification in 1990 also known as West Germany, the...
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Private Hustlers and Public Traitors
This chapter explores in detail how the procedural, pragmatic and most importantly, moral, legitimacy of the unification of London’s transport system...
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Introduction
The History of London’s transport is primarily charted through its physical expansion, with unification seen as a logical and inevitable end point....
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Introduction
2023 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith, reason enough to dedicate a special conference to...