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[email protected] A Tale of Two States: A Comparative Study of Higher Education Reform and its Effects on Economic Growth in East and West Germany 1945 – 1989 Catriona Macrae Haston BAHons; MPhil Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Economic and Social History Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences University of Glasgow Submitted September 2009 2 Abstract The hypothesis at the heart of this thesis is that long-term economic growth depends on the discovery and development of new ideas and technologies which enable innovation resulting in increased productivity. As technological innovation generally results from research processes instigated and performed by those with higher levels of education, it becomes important to analyse higher education as an economic actor as well as a symbolic institution of cultural and elite reproduction.