Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. CHAPTER 1. Production and Consumption: Establishing Priorities 16
7. CHAPTER 2. The Contest Begins: The Currency Reform, the Berlin Blockade, and the Introduction of the HO 38
8. CHAPTER 3. The Planned and the Unplanned: Consumer Supply and Provisioning Crisis 74
9. CHAPTER 4. The Rise, Decline, and Afterlife of the New Course 115
10. CHAPTER 5. Demand Research and the Relations between Trade and Industry 149
11. CHAPTER 6. Crisis Revisited: The Main Economic Task and the Building of the Berlin Wall 173
12. Epilogue 208
13. Notes 223
14. Index 289