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Socialism with a human faceusing behavioural economics to understand East German economic history /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Socialism with a human faceby Gary B. Magee, Wayne Geerling.
Reminder of title:	using behavioural economics to understand East German economic history /
Author:	Magee, Gary B.
other author:	Geerling, Wayne.
Published:	Singapore :Springer Singapore :2022.
Description:	xx, 356 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	EconomicsPsychological aspects.
Subject:	Germany (East)Politics and government.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0664-0
ISBN:	9789811906640$q(electronic bk.)

Socialism with a human faceusing behavioural economics to understand East German economic history /
Magee, Gary B.

Socialism with a human faceusing behavioural economics to understand East German economic history /[electronic resource] :by Gary B. Magee, Wayne Geerling. - Singapore :Springer Singapore :2022. - xx, 356 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in economic history,2662-6500. - Palgrave studies in economic history..

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.

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 system that, over its forty years, was capable of achievements and generally functioned at bearable levels. This book combines the insights of behavioural economics with archival research to peel away layers of rhetoric and assumptions about the East German economy and explore aspects of that underlying functionality. Through a series of cases studies that examine the establishment of socialist workplaces, the searches for productivity growth and efficiency, and the emergence of financial crisis, the book considers the system from the perspective of the humans who operated it and made the decisions that made it work. Unencumbered by political preconceptions, it offers a more realistic understanding of East German economic history than that derived from stagnant debates about the clash of systems. The new perspectives and approaches presented demonstrate that, extracted from its Cold War context, East Germany's economic history can be analysed for what it was, rather than for what it symbolised. Gary B. Magee is a Professor of Economics at Monash University, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has published widely in the fields of economic history, history and historical political economics. Wayne Geerling is an Associate Professor at Monash University. His expertise lies in European economic history. He has published widely in leading peer-reviewed journals in the fields of economics, economic history and history. He is the author (with Gary B. Magee) of Quantifying Resistance: Political Crime and the People's Court in Nazi Germany (2018)

ISBN: 9789811906640$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-19-0664-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

190596
Economics
--Psychological aspects.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

392282
Germany (East)
--Politics and government.

LC Class. No.: HB74.P8 / M34 2022

Dewey Class. No.: 330.9431087

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