Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. FIGURES vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS viii
5. Introduction. Narrating Economics as Crisis 1
6. PART I Shaping Economic Knowledge from Historical Perspectives
7. CHAPTER 1 German Finanzkapitalismus: A Narrative of Deutsche Bank and Its Role in the German Financial System 21
8. CHAPTER 2 Narrative Confrontations with Socioeconomic Crisis: Ideas for Building Community in the Mid‑Nineteenth-Century German Social Novel 48
9. CHAPTER 3 Economic Knowledge and the Failure to Alleviate the Great Depression in Weimar Germany 66
10. CHAPTER 4 The Moral Equation Works Out Differently: The Great Depression, the Crisis of Knowledge, and Value Order in Erich Kästner’s Fabian: The Story of a Moralist 87
11. PART II German Narratives of Work and Unemployment
12. CHAPTER 5 Unemployment as Crisis: Past and Present German-Language Sociological Narratives on the Loss of Work 107
13. CHAPTER 6 Cruel Optimism as Plot Driver in German and Austrian Economic Crisis Novels with Adult and Child Protagonists Thrust into Poverty 128
14. CHAPTER 7 John von Düffel’s Ego (2001) as a Seismographic Recorder of the Neoliberal Crisis of the Self 147
15. PART III German “Exceptionalism” in Contemporary European Crisis Situations
16. CHAPTER 8 Germany’s Compromises: The Impact of Crisis Narratives on the European Central Bank and Euro Governance 167
17. CHAPTER 9 Housing Crises and the Crisis of Housing: German Experiences with Neoliberal Reforms 194
18. PART IV The Tricky Question of Cause and Effect
19. CHAPTER 10 Literature against the “Profit‑Friendly Ideological Defense System” Entertainment and Sociopolitical Enlightenment in Uwe Timm’s Headhunter 223
20. CHAPTER 11 An Imaginary of Blame: The Representation of Crisis, the Crisis of Representation, and Jonas Lüscher’s Barbarian Spring 240
21. INDEX 261