The German Economic Miracle, Then and Now
https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/german-postwar-economic-miracle-revisited-by-barry-eichengreen-2025-10
Why did Germany, defeated in both World War I and WWII, recover so strongly after the latter, but not after the former? Two new books suggest that conventional accounts of the Wirtschaftswunder – West Germany’s miraculous economic ascent after WWII – get it wrong.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/german-postwar-economic-miracle-revisited-by-barry-eichengreen-2025-10
Why did Germany, defeated in both World War I and WWII, recover so strongly after the latter, but not after the former? Two new books suggest that conventional accounts of the Wirtschaftswunder – West Germany’s miraculous economic ascent after WWII – get it wrong.
Making Germany Grow Again
https://www.imf.org/-/media/Files/Publications/Fandd/Article/2025/06/Malmendier.ashx
https://www.imf.org/-/media/Files/Publications/Fandd/Article/2025/06/Malmendier.ashx
Germany’s much-ballyhooed “autumn of reforms” is a damp squib
https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/10/23/germanys-much-ballyhooed-autumn-of-reforms-is-a-damp-squib
Friedrich Merz’s government is drifting as the economy stagnates.
https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/10/23/germanys-much-ballyhooed-autumn-of-reforms-is-a-damp-squib
Friedrich Merz’s government is drifting as the economy stagnates.