Table of Contents

Introduction: East Germany's hope generation; Part I. Growing Into a Socialist Germany: 1. Socialist awakening; 2. Socialist role models; Part II. Becoming of Age During the Thaw: 3. Staging a scientific debate; 4. Negotiating socialist statistics; Part III. Reforming reforms towards bailout: 5. Ulbricht's modernist reforms; 6. Honecker's bourgeois reforms; Part IV. Letting Go: 7. Diverting West during the détente; 8. Saving socialism from the GDR; 9. Conclusion: Retiring with the state; References; Index.

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The collective biography of the only generation of economists who lived their entire professional life in GDR's socialism.

About the Author

Till Düppe is professor at the département des sciences économiques, and member of the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST), both at the Université du Québec à Montréal. For periods of this research, he was visiting researcher at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), and at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam.