[Book Review] Playing Catch Up

Review of: German Economic and Business History in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Werner Plumpe Palgrave, 367 pp, £86.00, August 2016, ISBN 978 1 137 51859 0 / The Seven Secrets of Germany: Economic Resilience in an Era of Global Turbulence by David Audretsch and Erik Lehmann Oxford, 229 pp, £22.99, February 2016, ISBN 978 0 19 025869 6 / Germany’s Role in the Euro Crisis: Berlin’s Quest for a More Perfect Monetary Union by Franz-Josef Meiers Springer, 146 pp, £90.00, November 2016, ISBN 978 3 319 37052