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- Title
Weimar's statistical economics: Ernst Wagemann, the Reich's Statistical Office, and the Institute for Business-Cycle Research, 1925-1933.
- Authors
Tooze, J. Adam
- Abstract
This article examines the relationship between the government and economics in Weimar republic in Germany from 1925-1933. The sparse literature presents contradictory and unreconciled images of the relationship between economics and policy making in the Weimar republic and the Third Reich. Few would disagree that the intellectual unity of the historical school had collapsed by the outbreak of the First World War. The power of academics from the German establishment to shape public debate and to influence policy was on the wane from the turn of the century and declined dramatically during the war and its aftermath. This picture of doctrinal confusion is important because it underpins a particular interpretation of the making of economic policy in the Weimar republic. Despite their many differences, they all agree in attributing to economists and economic doctrine a role in the making of economic policy. In the inter war period the German nation-state attempted for the first time to govern the national economy in a managerial fashion and this experiment did not develop in a vacuum of theory but, rather, in continuous and intensive dialogue with contemporary economic research.
- Subjects
WEIMAR (Thuringia, Germany); WEIMAR (Germany : Landkreis); GERMANY; WORLD War I; ECONOMIC policy; DEVELOPED countries; GERMAN economy
- Publication
Economic History Review, 1999, Vol 52, Issue 3, p523
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-0289.00135