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An export-and-manufacturing economy built on cheap energy, a fixed exchange rate it does not control and a Mittelstand ownership model, all three of which are now under strain.

7 books

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  1. KaputWolfgang Munchau, 2024
  2. Dark TowersDavid Enrich, 2020
  3. The Wages of DestructionAdam Tooze, 2006

Books 7

The Wages of Destruction
T1 The Wages of Destruction
Adam Tooze · 2006 · The Nazi economy as an exercise in resource and financial constraint.
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The Euro and the Battle of Ideas
T2 The Euro and the Battle of Ideas
Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James, Jean-Pierre Landau · 2016 · Why German and French economic doctrines produce different euro policies.
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Dark Towers
T2 Dark Towers
David Enrich · 2020 · Deutsche Bank's decades of risk-taking and control failure.
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Kaput
T2 Kaput
Wolfgang Munchau · 2024 · The case that the German industrial model has run out of road.
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The German Economy
T3 The German Economy
Horst Siebert · 2005 · A structural account of the social market model and its rigidities.
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Faster, Higher, Farther
T3 Faster, Higher, Farther
Jack Ewing · 2017 · Volkswagen's diesel fraud and what it says about German governance.
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Germany's Hidden Crisis
T3 Germany's Hidden Crisis
Oliver Nachtwey · 2018 · Labour-market dualism and downward mobility behind the export success.
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