Title: THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF GERMANY
Headings: THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF GERMANY
The Industrial Revolution of Germany
The Weimar Republic of Germany
National Socialist Germany
Post World War II Collapse and Recovery
The Occupation
The Currency Reform of June 1948
1948-1960 Spontaneous Growth: The Miracle Economy
Towards Managed Growth
Demand Management to Control Inflation and Establish External Balance
The Harrod-Domar  Growth Model.
I = ΔK = pΔY
and I = S = sY
Therefore ΔY/Y = s/p
1973-1989 Facing the Slowdown
Unification

Content: THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF GERMANY
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THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF GERMANY
The Industrial Revolution of Germany
The Industrial Revolution began about a century later in Germany than it did in England. Germany did not exist as a political unit until  the latter part of the nineteenth century. First came the Zollverein (Toll  Union) in 1833 that, by abolishing tolls between the various German  principalities,  made Germany into a common market. For a period of decades, until about 1860's, there were attempts at imitating in Germany the industrialization  that had taken place elsewhere in Europe. This imitation was only moderately  successful. In 1870 the modern German nation was created and thereafter major industries were founded that led to the full fledged industrialization of Germany. The southern side of the Rhine Valley of Germany was incorporated into France by Napoleon. At that time France was, despite its economic shortcomings with respect to England and Belgium, quite a bit more advanced than Germany. This period of forced integration with France stimulated economic change in the Rhine Valley. In 1815 this area became independent of France but retained some of the economic and institutional reforms of the Napoleonic period.