{"product_id":"invested-narratives-german-responses-to-economic-crisis-9781800736931","title":"Invested Narratives: German Responses to Economic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tGerman economic crises from the past two hundred years have provoked diverse responses from journalists, politicians, scholars, and fiction writers. Among their responses, storylines have developed as proposals for reducing unemployment, improving workplace conditions, and increasing profitability when stock markets tumble, accompanied by inflation, deflation, and overwhelming debt. The contributors to \u003cem\u003eInvested Narratives\u003c\/em\u003e assess German-language economic crisis narratives from the interdisciplinary perspectives of finance, economics, political science, sociology, history, literature, and cultural studies. They interpret the ways German society has tried to comprehend, recover from, and avoid economic crises and in doing so widen our understanding of German economic debates and their influence on German society and the European Union.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Narrating Economics as Crisis\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJill E. Twark\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Shaping Economic Knowledge from Historical Perspectives\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e German \u003cem\u003eFinanzkapitalismus\u003c\/em\u003e: A Narrative of Deutsche Bank and its Role in the German Financial System\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eReinhard H Schmidt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Narrative Confrontations with Socioeconomic Crisis: Ideas for Building Community in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century German Social Novel\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJohannes Brambora\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Economic Knowledge and the Failure to Alleviate the Great Depression in Weimar Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRoman Köster\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Moral Equation Works Out Differently: The Great Depression, the Crisis of Knowledge, and Value Order in Erich Kästner’s \u003cem\u003eFabian: The Story of a Moralist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \tSimela Delianidou\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: German Narratives of Work and Unemployment\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Unemployment as Crisis: Past and Present German-Language Sociological Narratives on the Loss of Work\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnnemarie Matthies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Cruel Optimism as Plot Driver in German and Austrian Economic Crisis Novels with Adult and Child Protagonists Thrust into Poverty\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJill E. Twark\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e John von Düffel’s \u003cem\u003eEgo\u003c\/em\u003e (2001) as a Seismographic Recorder of the Neoliberal Crisis of the Self\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJohanna Tönsing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: German ‘Exceptionalism’ in Contemporary European Crisis Situations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Germany’s Compromises: The Impact of Crisis Narratives on the European Central Bank and Euro Governance\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSara Konoe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Housing Crises and the Crisis of Housing: German Experiences with Neoliberal Reforms\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePaulette Kurzer and Alice H. Cooper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart IV: The Tricky Question of Cause and Effect\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Literature against the ‘Profit-Friendly Ideological Defense System’:Entertainment and Sociopolitical Enlightenment in Uwe Timm’s \u003cem\u003eHeadhunter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMonika Albrecht\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e An Imaginary of Blame: The Representation of Crisis, the Crisis of Representation and Jonas Lüscher’s \u003cem\u003eBarbarian Spring\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJoel Kaipainen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042750005591,"sku":"9781800736931","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800736931.jpg?v=1750955463","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/invested-narratives-german-responses-to-economic-crisis-9781800736931","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}