Academics
Jeremy Leaman BA, PhD
Senior Lecturer in German Email j.leaman@lboro.ac.uk |
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Biography
I am Senior Lecturer in German and European Studies. My first degree was in German Studies at the University of Liverpool, where I also completed a doctorate on the 19th century German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche. My main teaching areas have included modern German history, German political economy and German foreign relations, as well as German language. My current teaching responsibilities include a First-Year module on Economy and Society in Contemporary Europe, a Final Year module entitled Germany in Europe and a postgraduate module on The EU and the Global Political Economy; I also contribute to the Second Year undergraduate module entitled Developments in European Government and Politics and the postgraduate core module The State and the Global Economy in Europe.
Most recently, I have been in receipt of an EU FP6 grant associated with a 3-year comparative study of intergenerational poverty in East and West Europe and have produced a number of publications on poverty among young people with Christina Kokoroskou, UK research assistant on the project. In this context, I co-organised an interdisciplinary conference on Youth Culture in Europe in 2007 and am planning to hold a further conference on the Political Economy of Poverty and Wealth in the autumn of 2008. I am also working on a comparative study of political attitudes towards tax competition and tax havens in Britain and Germany.
I am managing editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies and also a member of the editorial board of Debatte – Review of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe.
My research interests are in: Political Economy of Germany; Central Banking in Europe; The Politics and Economics of Poverty and Wealth in Contemporary Europe; Taxation, Tax Competition and Tax Havens in the Political Economy of Europe; The Local State in Europe; German Foreign Economic Policy
Detailed searchable list of publications.
JL Publications 1973-2007
Books
The Political Economy of West Germany 1945-1985 (sole author), Macmillan, London/New York 1988, 287pp
The Bundesbank Myth. Towards a Critique of Central Bank Independence, Palgrave, 2001, pp 280 +xi, ISBN 0-333-73862-4
Books (author edited)
Austria - A Study in Achievement (co-editor), Gower, London 1988, 330pp
Racism, Ethnicity and Politics in Contemporary Europe (co-editor with Alec Hargreaves), London 1995
Towards Sustainability: Challenges to the Social Sciences and Local Democracy (co-editor with D. Eißel & E. Rokicka, Lodz (Absolwent)
1996, ISBN: 83-86840-16-1
Books (translated)
European Political Co-operation (ed.D.Allen et.al.) (co-translator with M. Wörsching), Butterworth, London 1982
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Chapters in Books
Jeremy Leaman, 'Handlungsspielräume der Gemeinden in der Zwischenkriegszeit', in: Stadterneuerung in der Weimarer Republik und im Nationalsozialismus, ed. Christian Kopetzki et al., Kassel 1987 (pp.132-162)
Jeremy Leaman ,'The Gemeinden as agents of Fiscal and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century: Local government and State Form Crises in Germany ', in State and Society in Germany 1870-1960, eds Eve Rosenhaft & Robert Lee, Berg Publishers, Leamington/New York 1988 (reprinted 1997) 254-280
Jeremy Leaman ,'The Paradox of West Germany's Political Economy in a Period of Critical Readjustment', in: European Insights, eds Brassloff A.M. & Brassloff W., Elsevier, Amsterdam 1991, 25-41
Jeremy Leaman ,'Regulatory Change and Privatisation in Germany' in: Moran, Michael & Tony Prosser (eds) Privatisation and Regulatory Change in Europe, London, Open University Press, 1994
Jeremy Leaman , (with David Lauder) 'Regionalpolitik in Großbritannien - eine vergleichende Analyse mit besonderem Hinblick auf die Bundesrepublik Deutschland', in: Bullmann, U (ed.). Die Politik der dritten Ebene. Regionen im Europa der Union, Baden-Baden (Nomos) 1994
Jeremy Leaman (with Alec Hargreaves) ‘Racism in Contemporary Western Europe: An Overview’, in Hargreaves/Leaman (eds), Racism, Ethnicity and Politics in Contemporary Europe London (Elgar) 1995
Jeremy Leaman ‘Environmental Politics and Interdisciplinarity’,
Chapter in: Eißel, Leaman & Rokicka (eds), Towards Sustainability, Lodz 1996, pp 37-52
Jeremy Leaman, 'Industrial and Commercial Cultures in Britain and Germany: Rivalry or Reconcilability?', in: Larres, K. (ed.), Uneasy Allies. British-German Relations and European Integration Since 1945, Oxford (OUP), 2000
Jeremy Leaman, ‘The Post-War German Economy’, in: Allinson, M, Leaman, J, Parkes, S, Tolkiehn, B, Contemporary Germany, London/New York (Longman) 2000, ISBN 0-582-35714-4, 143-99
Jeremy Leaman, ‘Social Partnership in Germany in the 1990s’, in: Social Partnership and Policy Concertation at National Level Vol 1, ed. Stefan Berger and Hugh Compston, first volume of Social Partnership in the European Union, report prepared for the European Commission by Hugh Compston, May 2000
Jeremy Leaman, ‘Germany in the 1990s: The Impact of Reunification’, in: Stefan Berger & Hugh Compston (eds), Policy Concertation and Social Partnership in Western Europe. Lessons for the 21st Century, New York/ Oxford, Berghahn Books,
Jeremy Leaman ' Germany, EMU and the Bundesbank', in: Koch, K & King, I (eds) Germany and Europe. Germany's Relationship to Europe at the end of the1990's, London (South Bank University Press) 2003, pp.146-168
Jeremy Leaman (with David Berry and Carl Emmerson), ‘Taxation’, in: Hugh Compston (ed.), Handbook of Public Policy in Europe, London (Palgrave) 2004, 89-98
Jeremy Leaman (with Anne Daguerre), ‘Employment’, in: Hugh Compston (ed.), Handbook of Public Policy in Europe, London (Palgrave) 2004, pp. 110-120
Jeremy Leaman (with Graeme Hayes and William Maloney), ‘Water’, in: Hugh Compston (ed.), Handbook of Public Policy in Europe, London (Palgrave) 2004, pp. 241-251
Jeremy Leaman ‚ Soziale Gerechtigkeit in Großbritannien – ein Modell für Deutschland und Europa?’ in: Grasse, Alexander, Carmen Ludwig & Berthold Dietz (eds), Soziale Gerechtigkeit. Reformpolitik am Scheideweg, Wiesbaden (VS-Verlag) 2006 ISBN: 3-531-15021-9
Jeremy Leaman, ‘Coping with Disparity: Continuity and Discontinuity in Economic Policy since Unification’, in: Taberner, Stuart and Paul Cooke (eds) German Culture, Politics, and Literature into the Twenty-First Century Beyond Normalization, London (Camden House) 2006
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Academic journal articles
'Nietzsche and the Dialectics of Nihilism', in: New German Studies 1981, Vol XI, Nr 2, pp 73-100
'Ferdinand Lassalle's "Workers' Programme"', in: Economy and Society, Vol.14, 1985 Nr.3, 331ff
'Jürgen Habermas and the "Historikerstreit' in West Germany', in Economy and Society, Vol 17, 1988 Nr.3 , 518-529
'Continuity and Change: German Society in Transition to the New German States 1945-1955', Conference Report in German History, Vol.6, 1988
'Local Government Finances in West Germany: Centralisation of Control, Decentralisation of Responsibility', in: Local Government Fiscal Policy in Britain, France and Germany, Studies in European History and Political Economy, ed.European Research Centre, Loughborough University, Loughborough 1991
'Wege und Irrwege der marxistischen Faschismusforschung', in: German History, 1992 Vol.10, Nr.2
Editorial Article, 'Critical Perspectives of 1992' Journal of Area Studies 1, 1992
'The Bundesbank - Unelected Government of Germany and Europe', Debatte - Review of Contemporary German Affairs, 1/1993
'The Rhetoric and Logic of Wende- Politics', German Politics 1/1993
'Die Diktatur der Bundesbank?', Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, 7/1993
'Maastricht-Karlsruhe und zurück', Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, 11/1993
'Political economy and interdisciplinarity: Theoretical Scope and practical limitations for Area Studies', The Journal of Area Studies, 4 (1994)
'The Hegemony-Debate: United Germany and the Future of Europe', Debatte Review of Contemporary German Affairs, 3/1994
'The Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the USSR, August 1939 - Old Myths, New Myths and Reinterpretations' German History 1994
‘Taxation and Taxation Policy in Germany since the Wende,
Debatte - Review of Contemporary German Affairs, 1/1995
‘Central Banking and the Crisis of Social Democracy: A Comparison of British and German Views’, German Politics 3/1995
‘German Economic Unification - Five Years On’, Debatte 2/1995
‘1945-95 and the mediation of memory’, Editorial Journal of Area Studies Issue 7/1995
‘Renewed Growth Weaknesses of the German Economy’
in: Debatte, Vol. 4 Number 1 1996, pp124-144
‘Sick Pay Reform and Other Marginal Wage Costs: The New Challenge to Social Provision in Germany’,in: Debatte, Vol 4 Number 2 1996, pp 116-129
Jeremy Leaman ‘Eingefleischter Wahnsinn’
in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, 8/1996, pp 903-907
Jeremy Leaman ‘State Form Crises in the Weimar Republic’, in Journal of Scottish History Association, History Teaching Yearbook, June 1997, Vol 11, 33-38
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'Germany's Economy in the context of "globalization"', in: Debatte Vol.5. No.1, May 1997 91-104
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'Mergers and the unsocial market economy', in: Debatte Vol. 5. No.2, November 1997, 235-248
Jeremy Leaman & Ingolfur Blühdorn, Introduction to Special Issue of Debatte, No. 2. 1998, 109-114
Jeremy Leaman, Introduction to Debatte, Volume 8 Issue 1/2000, 5-8
Jeremy Leaman, Editorial to Journal of European Area Studies, Volume 8, Issue 2/2000
Jeremy Leaman, ‘Economic Notes’, in Debatte, Volume 9, Issue 1/ 2001, 88-95
Jeremy Leaman, ‘Should Class be Supplanted by Distribution as Core Category of Analysis and Policy?’, Journal of European Area Studies, Vol.9. No.2/2001, 217-231
Jeremy Leaman, Introduction to Debatte, Volume 10, Issue 1/2002
Jeremy Leaman, Introduction to Debatte, Volume 10, Issue 2/2002
Jeremy Leaman, ‘Blairs Nemesis’, in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, July 2003
Jeremy Leaman, Editorial to Journal of Contemporary European Studies, August 2004
Jeremy Leaman, ‘When Policies Collide’, in: Debatte. Review of Contemporary German Affairs, Volume 12, No.2, November 2004, 154-166
Jeremy Leaman & Christina Kokoroskou ‘UK Literature Review on intergenerational inheritance of inequalities’ in: European Studies on Inequalities and Social Cohesion, Łódź University Press Vol. 4, 2005, 5-30, ISSN 1734-6878
Jeremy Leaman, ‘Warum Thatcherismus auf Deutsch nicht geht. Zur Besonderheit der bundesdeutschen Situation’, in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, October 2005, pp. 1195-1207
Jeremy Leaman & Christina Kokoroskou ‘United Kingdom’, in: Special Issue of European Studies on Inequalities and Social Cohesion, Łódź University Press, Vol. 5, No 1/2 2006, 206-17, ISSN 1734-6878
Jeremy Leaman & Christina Kokoroskou ‘On policy responses overcoming the transmission of inequalities in Loughborough’, European Studies on Inequalities and Social Cohesion, Łódź University Press, Vol. 5, No. 3/4, 189-215, ISSN 1734-6878
Edited works
Studies in European History and Political Economy (European Research Centre, Loughborough University)
Paper 1 Rosenhaft, E German Communism and the Popular Front, Loughborough 1991
Paper 2 Balme, Richard & Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot, Bramley, Glen & Leaman, Jeremy Local Government Fiscal Policy in Britain, France and West Germany, Three Studies, Loughborough 1991
Paper 3. Eissel, D. The Theory and Practice of Environmental Politics with particular Reference to Germany, Loughborough 1992
The Journal of Area Studies, Special Issue on 1992, 1/1992 (Co-ordinating Editor)
'Problems of Bundesbank Policy. Interview with Wilhelm Nölling, President of the Land Central Bank of Hamburg', Debatte Review of Contemporary German Affairs,-No.1/1993
'German History and German Nationalism after Unification', (edited interviews with seven international historians), Debatte Review of Contemporary German Affairs, No.2/1993
Translated articles
Louis Althusser, 'A Note on the Ideological State Apparatuses' (from the published German version), in Economy and Society, Vol 13 No. 1 1984
Ferdinand Lassalle, 'The Workers’ Programme', in Economy and Society, Vol. 14 No. 3, 1985
Jürgen Habermas, 'A Kind of Settlement of Damages', in both Economy and Society, Vol 17 No. 3 1988 & New German Critique, Winter 1988
Jürgen Habermas, 'The Public Use of History', in : New German Critique, Winter 1988
Dieter Eißel , 'Disparity or Convergence? Prospects for the Regions in the European Community', Journal of Area Studies, 1/1992
Leopoldo Marmora & Roger Peltzer 'Europe 1992 and the South: Neocolonial Continuity or the Chance of a New Beginning', Journal of Area Studies 1, 1992
Reinhard Kühnl 'January 30th 1933 - Sixty Years On', Journal of Area Studies 2, 1993
Claus Leggewie 'Non-Voters - Risk Factor for Democracy?', Debatte Review of Contemporary German Affairs,No.2/1993
Reinhard Kühnl & Gudrun Hentges 'Foreign Workers in Germany', Debatte Review of Contemporary German Affairs,No. 2/1993
‘Solidarity with “Standort-Deutschland”’, Debatte Review of Contemporary German Affairs,Vol 2. No 2
Jörg Huffschmid ‘Victory in the World Market or Full Employment and Ecological Restructuring. A Commentary on the Recent “Standort”-debate in Germany’, Debatte Review of Contemporary German Affairs, vol 2 No 2
Ernst-Ulrich Huster ‘Wealth in Germany: Concerning the Difficulty of Talking about a Tabu’, in: Debatte - Review of Contemporary German Affairs, 2/1995
Berthold Dietz ‘The Instrumentalisation of Poverty. The Tradition and the Contemporary Relevance of the Marginalisation of Misery, Debatte - Review of Contemporary German Affairs, 2/1995
Elmar Altvater ‘A Contest without Victors: Political Action in the Age of the Geo-Economy’, Journal of Area Studies 2/1995
Arne Heise, ‘Promised and Kept? An Assessment of the Modernisation Concepts of the Red-Green Coalition in relation to Economic and Employment Policy’, Debatte, 2/2002, 157-78
Arne Heise, ‘Off with the Austerity Straitjacket’, Debatte 1/2002, 93-97
Dieter Eissel, ‘Is Market Dogmatism Driving the Red-Green Government’s Budgetary Policy?’, Debatte 2/2002, 141-56
Recent reviews
Leaman, J., (1992) The West German Economy 1945-1955 by Alan Kramer, New York and Oxford, Berg (1991), in: German Politics, Vol.1/3
Leaman, J. (1993) The Political Executive: Politicians and Management in European Local Government, edited by Richard Batley and Adrian Campbell, London (Frank Cass) 1992, in: German Politics, Vol.2/2
Leaman, J. (1993) Wirtschaftspolitische Konsequenzen der deutschen Vereinigung, edited by Andreas Westphal, Hansjörg Herr, Michael Heine & Ulrich Busch, Frankfurt (Campus), 1991, in: Debatte 1/1993
Leaman J. (1993) Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1950-1989, by Glastetter, W. et.al. Frankfurt am Main (Campus), 1991, in: Debatte, 1/1993
Leaman J. (1993) Der Preis der Einheit. Bilanz und Perspektiven der deutschen Vereinigung by Jan Priewe & Rudolf Hickel, Frankfurt am Main (Fischer) 1991, in: Journal of Area Studies, Issue 2
Leaman J. (1994) Perspectives on Modern German Economic History and Policy by Knut Borchardt, Cambridge (CUP), in: German Politics 1/1994
Leaman, J. (1994) Forever in the Shadow of Hitler? The Dispute about the Germans’ Understanding of History, Original Documents of the Historikerstreit, the Controversy Concerning the Singularity of the Holocaust, ed. J. Knowlton and T. Cates, New Jersey (Humanities Press) 1993. In: German Politics 2/1994
Leaman, J. (1995) Freedom with Responsibility. The Social Market Economy in Germany 1918-1963 by A.J. Nicholls, Oxford (OUP), 1994. In: German Politics 1/1995
Leaman, J. The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews: The expropriation of Jewish-owned property. By Harold James. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, in: Harvard Business History Review, Vol. 75, No. 4 Winter 2001, 910-912
Leaman, J., German History and Global Enterprise. BASF: the History of a Company. By Werner Abelshauser, Wolfgang von Hippel, Jeffrey Allan Johnson & Raymond G. Stokes, Cambridge/ New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004, in: Harvard Business History Review, Vol. 79, No. 2, Summer 2005, 449-51
- others in: Modern Language Review, West European Politics, German History, German Politics, Political Studies, Quinquereme, DAAD-Materialien zur Landeskunde
Forthcoming publications
Single authored book: The Political Economy of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1982, Berghahn 2007/2008