Zur Politischen Ökonomie des doppelten Deutschland

Abstract

The strategy of catching-up shows some non-intended effects which produced a vicious circle in the sense of Myrdal. First, the economic measures for building up a high-wage/high-tech economy in Eastem Germany induced a severe process of de-industrialization. Second, the market-oriented policy of the liberal-conservatuce govemment runs into a strong interventionist attitude towards stabilizing the eastem