The German Slump: Politics and Economics 1924-1936 - Softcover

Harold James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198229852 ISBN 13: 9780198229858

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1987

Synopsis

The collapse of the German economy in the interwar years provides the most dramatic case-study of a democracy faced with the major economic problems--world recession, instability in international finance, management and labor problems, and unemployment--which resulted in the advent of Nazism. This is the first survey of the German "slump" in English and the first in any language since important archives became available. Arguing that long-term weaknesses caused by structural rigidity, increasingly conservative investment choices, poor labor relations, high taxation, and an inefficient agrarian sector led to economic and political instability, James here shows the connections between long-term weaknesses and particular policy responses in a crucial period of 20th-century European history.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198229852
• ISBN 13: 9780198229858
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 490