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Author James, Harold, 1956-

Title The German slump : politics and economics, 1924-1936 / Harold James
Published Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1986

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Description xvi, 469 pages ; 23 cm
Contents The political development of Weimar Germany -- Public finance -- The Reich -- The Lander -- The Communes -- The structure of industry: stagnation and retardation -- Rick avoidance through the organised economy? -- The chronology of growth and change -- Conclusion: The mania about the rationalisation mania -- The politics of business in Weimar Germany -- Business attitudes -- Industrial corporatism and the course of political and economic development -- Labour problems: consequences or causes of the stagnant economy? -- Wages and the national economy -- Wages and technology -- The structure of wages -- The origins of state intervention in the labour market -- The development of wages after the stabilisation Bruning's wage revolution -- Agriculture -- The legacy of the Kaiserreich, war, and inflation stabilisation problems -- Agrarian radicalism: the response to the farmers' crisis -- The government's response: tariff increases or debt reduction -- The banking crisis -- The banking crisis and business -- The story of the crisis -- Coping with the bank collapse -- The implications of the banking crisis -- Economists and the depression -- A Nazi recovery? -- Hitler's economic programme -- Agriculture -- The Mittelstand -- Labour in the Third Reich -- The state budget -- Nazi trade policy -- Germany's debts -- Innovation and conservatism in recovery
Analysis Germany Economic conditions, 1924-1936. Political aspects
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [421]-455
SUBJECT Germany -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054497
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054639
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054640
LC no. 85021529
ISBN 0198219725