Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. List of tables in text 7
4. List of graphs in text 9
5. Acknowledgements 11
6. Chapter 1: Introduction 13
7. Chapter 2: The political economy of the GDR statistics 29
8. Chapter 3: East German GDP 49
9. Chapter 4: The industrial sector, 1936–1954 69
10. Chapter 5: The industrial sector, 1950–1989 93
11. Chapter 6: The non–industrial sectors 119
12. Chapter 7: Unification and transformation 135
13. Chapter 8: Concluding chapter 157
14. Annex Α.: Time series on the industrial sector 163
15. Annex В.: Time series on the total economy 193
16. Annex С.: Benchmark comparison 198
17. Annex D.: Miscelleneous 222
18. References 231