Who Forgets German History?

Almost everybody except the Germans. Thomas Piketty’s very French diatribe in Die Zeit (in German, so paste it into Google Translate for a ricketty English version) against current German behavior towards Greece skips just about everything related to World War I and the Cold War. Eduardo Porter’s Picketty mimicry in the New York Times is even more myopic.  Neither mentions the ideological American interest in assuring an economic miracle in West Germany after 1945, let alone the international political interplay between war reparations and foreign loans to the Weimar government after 1918. Anybody remember the Dawes Plan of 1924 or the Lausanne Conference of 1932? Hit the stacks, gentlemen!  One small measure of the subject’s complexity is that in 1922 the German government invited an international committee of distinguished economists, including John Maynard Keynes and Gustav Cassel, to study the currency situationviagra pill cost The world medical association also approved this medicine in every circumstance. They just need to consult with physical to know the underlying causes of their condition cialis 100mg canada and the best quality. Many have levitra prescription online shown that a person who is experiencing low sex drive can consume this capsule to regain sex drive and to enjoy the lovemaking sessions. Keep in mind, each type of steroid has different sildenafil best price arrangement of atoms. . Presumably Picketty and Porter remember how that decade played out.

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