Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-365) and index.
Making and unmaking money : monetary theory and economic planning in East Germany -- Accounting and accountability : financing the planned economy under Honecker, 1971-1980 -- Parsimony and the prince : crisis and stability, 1980-1985 -- The currency of decline : the dis-integration of the East German economy, 1986-1989 -- The vehicle of desire : the Trabant, the Wartburg, and the discipline of demand -- Consuming ideology : the Intershops, Genex, and retail trade under Honecker -- Appealing to authority : the citizens' petitions and the rhetoric of decline -- Epilogue : revisiting reunification