German unification and the ‘market adoption’ hypothesis
研究了德国统一后东德经济因‘市场采纳’而急剧衰退的现象，指出政府转移支付和私人投资虽促进了东西部收入与投资均等化，但东德付出了财富转移、人才外流和科研潜力丧失的代价。
'Market adoption' is often blamed for inducing precipitous decline in East Germany's comparatively inefficient economy. Government transfers and private sector investments contributed toward income and investment equalization between the east and west of Germany. But the price East Germany paid for unification was the transfer out of vast portions of the regional stock of wealth: as productive assets, forests, farms, and property; by the outmigration of the technical work force; and by the liquidation of the regional scientific potential, features which may well limit Eastern Germany's recovering historical losses relative to Western Germany. (c) 1995 Academic Press, Ltd. Copyright 1995 by Oxford University Press.