Plans That Failed
Plans That Failed The establishment of the Communist social model in one part of Germany was a result of international postwar developments, of the Cold War waged by East and West, and of the…
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Plans That Failed
The establishment of the Communist social model in one part of Germany was a result of international postwar developments, of the Cold War waged by East and West, and of the resultant partition of Germany. Although the hopes connected with this alternative system turned out to be misplaced and the planned economy may be thoroughly discredited today, it is important to understand the context in which it developed and failed. As the author argues, the GDR's 'new' society was deliberately conceived as a counter-model to the liberal and market regulated system.
These factors, however, were not decisive in the GDR's lack of growth compared to that of the Federal Republic. This study, a bestseller in its German version, offers an in-depth exploration of the GDR economy's starting conditions and the obstacles to growth it confronted during the consolidation phase. As this study convincingly shows, it was the economic model that led to failure.