Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The GDR in Historical and International Perspective -- 2. Command Planning and the Production Unit -- 3. The New Economic System of Planning and Management 1963-70 and Recentralisation in the 1970s -- 4. The Economic Strategy of the 1980s and the Limits to Possible Reforms -- 5. The Kombinat in GDR Economic Organisation -- 6. The 1981-85 Order of Planning (Planungsordnung) -- 7. The Perfecting of the Planning and Steering Mechanisms -- 8. Product and Process Renewal in GDR Economic Strategy: Goals, Problems and Prospects -- 9. The Pricing System of the GDR: Principles and Problems -- 10. The GDR Financial System -- 11. Agriculture -- 12. The Foreign Trade and Payments of the GDR -- 13. The Role of the GDR in Comecon: Some Economic Aspects -- 14. Economic Reform in the GDR: Causes and Effects -- List of Contributors -- Glossary -- References -- Index