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Dear list members, As announced previously, H-German is hosting a "slow-motion forum" this summer on economic issues in German history. We recognize that travel schedules vary during the summer months and we have refrained from pushing a hurried publication schedule. However, now that the July 4 holiday is past in the United States, we would like to encourage list members to return to the two divergent posts published thus far. The forum introduction and the Rubin and Tooze contributions can be found here: http://www.h-net.org/~german/discuss/econ/econ_index.htm. With two such starkly defined and contrasting positions on the table, we feel that there is a solid (and controversial) basis for further discussion. Should we drop Said for Schumpeter, as Eli Rubin suggests? Or should we leave aside "great books" and focus on quantitative methods, as Adam Tooze cautions us? More generally, is it essential that historians of Germany understand and engage with economic issues? The editors would like to invite list members to take the time to submit brief responses to the forum contributions. These are issues that have not been aired in quite some time in German history circles, and we are persuaded that the breadth of H-German's readership makes this an optimal venue for considering the problems and opportunities inherent in studying economic matters -- ranging from hyperinflation to consumer culture to the vicious "Hunger Plan" directed against occupied Eastern Europe in the 1940s. Given the high quality and wide range of recent publications touching in some way upon material or economic survival, we are persuaded that H-German readers have much to learn from one another. Susan Boettcher Eve Duffy Chris Fischer Will Gray David Imhoof Margaret Menninger Jon Berndt Olsen Paul Steege
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