Berlin's Black market
Subtitle: 939-1950
By: Malte Zierenberg
Series: Worlds of consumption
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781137017741
Subjects: HISTORY / Social History; Black market; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; HISTORY / Europe / Germany; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History; History
Work titles: Stadt der Schieber
Description: "This is a social history of Berlin's black market during World War II and the post-war period, looking at both its participants and their practices, the macroeconomic context in which the market operated and the everyday strategies that were deployed by individuals to navigate the market. Malte Zierenberg reveals the black market to be a complex structure, which is on the one hand a geographical space but on the other hand represents a conceptual category within an economy"--

"This book puts the illegal economy of the German capital during and after World War II into context and provides a new interpretation of Germany's postwar history. The black market, it argues, served as a reference point for the beginnings of the two new German states"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologues; title: The wartime networks : the Martha Rebbien case; title: Destruction, disorientation and new patterns of order : changes in the black market landscape during the transition from war to postwar; title: Black markets from the end of the war to the currency reform; title: Stories of a new beginning : the economy of the streets between the currency reform and the "Economic Miracle"; title: Conclusion : black market trading as a radical experience of a free market.