German 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
Invested Narratives 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.