Perspectives on modern German economic history and policy / Knut Borchardt ; translated by Peter Lambert.

Translation of: Wachstum, Krisen, Handlungsspielräume der Wirtschaftspolitik.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-269) and index.

Protectionism in historical perspective -- Was there a capital shortage in the first half of the nineteenth century in Germany? -- Regional variations in growth in Germany in the nineteenth century with particular reference to the west-east developmental gradient -- Investment in education and instruction in the nineteenth century -- Changes in the phenomenon of the business cycle over the last hundred years -- Trends, cycles, structural breaks, chance: what determines twentieth-century German economic history? -- The Federal Republic of Germany in the secular trend of economic development -- Germany's experience of inflation -- Constraints and room for manoeuvre in the great depression of the early thirties: towards a revision of the received historical picture -- Economic causes of the collapse of the Weimar Republic -- Germany's exchange rate options during the great depression.