Pianificazione ed integrazione internazionale nella Germania Orientale. (Planning and international integration in Soviet Germany)

• Main Author: W.F. STOLPER
• Format: Article
• Language: Italian
• Published: Associazione Economia civile 2014-07-01
• Series: Moneta e Credito
• Subjects: Eastern Germany, GDR, Soviet Union, socialist planning, development
• Online Access: http://ojs.uniroma1.it/index.php/monetaecredito/article/view/12378

<p dir="ltr">The German Democratic Republic has developed into a powerful member of the Soviet bloc, and yet little attention has so far been payed to it. The author argues that communist propaganda pictures developments in East Germany as a triumph of socialist planning over inherited backwardness, while free-market economists consider every failure as proof of imminent collapse. Instead, East Germany is a very interesting case of its own due to the peculiarity of its resource endowment as well as the recent history of bombing and war damage.</p><span><span><br /></span></span><p dir="ltr">JEL: O20, O52, P21</p><div><span><br /></span></div>