An Economic History of the First German Unification: State Formation and Economic Development in a European Perspective

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Title Page
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Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Part I: Nation Formation and the Evolution of Economic Policy
	2 National Identity, Economic Integration, and the Rise of Prussia
	3 Intergovernmental Economic Cooperation and Institutional Integration Before the Founding of the German Empire
	4 Politics, Administration, and Market Governance in a Federalist Environment: The German Empire in the 1870s and 1880s
Part II: The Formation of the Nation-State as a Structural and Institutional Turning Point
	5 Germany’s Transition from a Post-Malthusian to a Modern Growth Regime, 1860s to 1880s
	6 Fiscal Regime, Nation-Building, and State Capacity: Interactions Among Public Finances, National Unification, and Economic Development
	7 Nation-State Formation and Market Integration: Postal Service, Telegraph System, and Railways
	8 The Changing Capacity for Self-Description: The Creation of a National Statistical Service
	9 The Gold Standard and the Reichsbank: The Transformation of the Monetary Regime
	10 Patent Law and Technical Progress
Part III: Economic Development and Economic Institutions in Early Imperial Germany
	11 Stock Exchanges, Banks, and the Panic of 1873
	12 How Organised was Capitalism in the Empire? Lobby Associations, Cartels, and Interlocking Directorates
	13 Social Insurance and its Consequences for Workers’ Living Conditions
	14 Inequality and its Drivers in Germany, 1840–1914
	15 Education Systems and Human Capital Accumulation
	16 Globalization and Foreign Trade
Part IV: State and Economic Development in a European Perspective
	17 Political Change and the Origins Of Protectionism: A French–German Comparison (1860s to 1890s)
	18 The Economics of the Italian Unification
	19 After Exit: The Habsburg Economy Since 1870
	20 British Relative Economic Decline in the Aftermath of German Unification
Index