Zwischen Parteilichkeit und Wissenschaft / Between Party and Science: Zur Statistikausbildung von Wirtschaftswissenschaftlern in der DDR / Teaching Statistics to GDR Students of Economics

Strohe Hans Gerhard
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Strohe Hans Gerhard: Lehrstuhl für Statistik, Universität Potsdam, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Postfach 90 03 27, D-14439 Potsdam

Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 1997, vol. 216, issue 3, 257-294

Abstract: This paper examines the education policy of the GDR state party SED in the field of statistics particularly for students of economics. Statistics was expected to be an instrument of party propaganda. What they called socialist statistics was created on the base of the ideas of Marx, Lenin and Stalin. The personnel policy of the Ministry of Higher Education had to serve these purposes, i.e. only active party members had a chance of getting a professor’s job. However, a remarkable proportion of the academic staff did a good teaching and research work ignoring the official party programmes.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-1997-0302

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