Socialism with a Human Face Using Behavioural Economics to Understand East German Economic History
East Germany’s economic history is typically told as a story of the unravelling of an inherently flawed system. Yet, while the system’s inefficiency is undeniable, its economic history was much richer than its comparatively poor economic performance suggests. For many who lived there, it was a syste...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Palgrave Macmillan
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Perceptions
- Chapter 2: Making Decisions: Lessons from Behavioural Economics
- Chapter 3: Establishing the Socialist Workplace: Labour, Norms and the Introduction of Piecework
- Chapter 4: Learning from the Soviet Union Means Learning to Win: Group Technology and the Mitrofanov method
- Chapter 5: Searching for Socialist Efficiency: The Case of the Schwedt Initiative
- Chapter 6: Choosing Bankruptcy: The Onset of Debt and Financial Crisis
- Chapter 7: Conclusion