The article says that the main over all reason is the Soviets but the decoupling started the process before they even started to fuck it up

At leasst that's waht the Conclusion says

If you dn;t agree, learn to read

June this is getting sad

the article repudiates the idea that soviet reparations are the primary cause in favor of the idea it was the disruption of supply chains caused by the division of germany

I have shown evidence that the east german economy

was ahead of west

using a primary determinant

soviet productive output

no you didn't

show other wise

Its in the journal

you showed that it started out as more efficient

that isn't the same thing as being more productive

LEARN TO READ

the third paragraph says

the divergence STARTED before the soviets had any impact

The other is a divergence between West German and East German TFP levels. The latter turned East German industry from having a non-trivial productivity lead over its western counterpart in 1946 to trailing West German productivity by the late 1940s, and rapidly losing ground.

and no doom

its talking about institutional implementations

by productivity here they are referring to total factor productivity which is a measure of efficiency

but the 2nd paragraph states that that decoupling is not a sufficient explanation for what happened

A primary determinant in GDP

basically shit started with the decoupling

which the journal acknowledges

and then soviets made it even worse

and was their primary point for mentioning it

jesus man

this is sad

The article says: decoupling bad, soviet rule also bad

lol

the point in mentioning it was to say that it was the primary cause of the slowdown in growth in the 40's as opposed to the change in capital stock caused by soviet reparations

Before we get into broader issues

acknowledge they started out with advantage

you keep moving goalpost and denying until your face turns red

i'm not moving goalposts lmao

i never said that east germany didn't start out with an advantage in total factor productivity

tfp is not a good proxy for gdp per capita

The journal mentioned it is . Ican show you a host of other sources discussing TFP as being primary determinant

show me otherwise

fvcking syria and mexico have some of the highest tfp measures in the world