Source for Analysis of the East German Economy (Berghoff & Balbier, 2013)
The analysis of the East German economy, covering its establishment as a centrally planned system, its eventual collapse, and subsequent transformation, is supported by a 2013 publication from Hartmut Berghoff and Uta Andrea Balbier. Their work, titled ‘From Centrally planned economy to capitalist avant-garde? The creation, collapse, and transformation of a socialist economy’, appeared in the book 'The East German Economy, 1945–2010: Falling behind or catching up?'.
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