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This is a fascinating graphic. In healthcare, we often say that geography is destiny. I can reliably predict your health status and outcomes based upon where you live. However, geography is really just a covariate. The real drivers include socioeconomic and cultural factors, which we generally call social determinants of health (SDoH). How long ago did Germany reunite? Yet, after all those years, obvious disparities persist in a developed nation with one of the largest economies in the world. One takeaway: SDoH factors can have significant inertia - meaning that these factors are hard to change in a population, and that change, if it happens at all, can take a long time.
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More than 30 years after German re-unification, the differences between East and West are still clearly discernible in the maps shown below. This, however, is not merely a legacy of the cold war, but a combination of: high reparation payments and factories being dismantled and sent to the Soviet Union immediately after the war (only from the East), 40 years of desastrous Communist economic policies, and last but not least the botched economic transformation after re-unification (in particular the ill-conceived currency reform and the hastened privatizations). Have a look at the map about "young people". This is because hundreds of thousands of well-educated young people moved to Western Germany to find a job. From my high-school class of 15 students, only two are still in the region, but twelve live and work in Western Germany - and one in Dubai :-) Contrary to general assumptions large parts of Eastern Germany - particularly the southern half - were highly industialized before WWII and even before WWI. Saxony (e.g. Chemnitz aka "the German Manchester") was one of the regions to kick-start early industrialisation with textile industries and machinery/ engineering. The original Horch/ Audi cars came from Zwickau/Saxony, and BMWs from Eisenach/Thuringia. Leipzig used to be a major trade center (insurance, publishing, trade fairs) on par with Frankfurt/ Main. The Halle-Dessau region excelled in advanced chemical industries (the world's first colour photographic film) and aviation (Junker). I could go on. This is really not a case of "the east has always been underdeveloped compared with Rhine/ Ruhr or Bavaria". The maps show clearly what persistent legacies such radical shifts in politics and economics create and how difficult it is to turn the fortunes of an entire large region around.
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A great discussion on the realities of political economy, military industrial complex, systems management and innovation processes; and wartime and post-war rebuilding programs in the societal social/military realms. Listen to what he is saying with this lens/context in mind and ask how the concepts are applied and similar to real world/real life settings......aka non-animated/non-Star Wars. 😉 #politicaleconomy #geopolitics #militaryindustrialcomplex ##systemsmanagement #businessinnovation #publicsector #economy #economicdevelopment #warplanning #peacebuilding #newstrategicreality #geopolticalrisk #humancapital #humancapitalmanagement #humancapitaldevelopment
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Annually, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 7472 commemorates 265 deceased Veterans by placing wreaths on their graves at Good Sheperd Cemetery in Ellicott City, MD. Please consider procuring a wreath for VFW Post 7472 to ensure that all deceased Veterans receive a modest gesture of gratitude for their service and ultimate sacrifice. Please refer to the QR code and instructions below in order to ensure that the wreaths are delivered to the appropriate cemetery. We appreciate your time and attention toward our Veterans. 1. Use QR Code using phone camera or download QR code - press and hold or go to https://lnkd.in/eP7HcvKs 2. Select "Sponsor a Specific Cemetery" 3. Click on how many Wreaths you wish to Sponsor 4. Select Location "Good Shepherd Cemetery, Ellicott City, MD 21043, United States (MDGSCE) |172744|" 5. "Review My Sponsorship" 6. Verify quantify of Wreaths and Location as above then Start Checkout
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These truly are amazing maps, except...they don’t tell the true story. Take a look at the map in the comment to this post. It seems to confirm the hypothesis that #communism in East #Germany had profoundly changed that part of the country, throwing it on an entirely different #socioeconomic path compared with West Germany. Well...not quite. The below map shows data on the share of #bluecollar workers per region from...1925 . The post-war division of Germany into two countries, one #communist and one #capitalist, is not as great of a #naturalexperiment as it may seem. This in turn shows how difficult socio-economic #research, and thus #evidencebased #policymaking, can sometimes be. So, why the two German states are not a perfect natural experiment? 1. East and West Germany were very different even BEFORE #WW2. And not only regarding the labor force. Before WW2, Eastern Germany showed higher support for the communist party, was almost entirely protestant (90%), while the West was roughly 50% Protestant and 50% Catholic. The level of religiousness was lower, women were more likely to work outside the home, etc., etc. Many traits typically associated with communist influence were already more pronounced in the East before the communists came to power. 2. Emigration. Until 1961 when the Berlin wall was erected, around 20% of Germans from the East fled to the West. And this group was not random: these were relatively younger, and better educated people. 3. The German Democratic Republic (East) and the Federal Republic of Germany (West) had different economic starting points as Russia (how surprising) pretty much looted whatever it could from its zone of control (East). The cost of #reparations per capita in the East are estimated to have been 73% higher than in the West. Source, which I recommend to those interested in the subject and which I based this post on is a fascinating 2020 paper: The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism, by Sascha O. Becker, Lukas Mergele, and Ludger Woessmann. This paper is also the source of the map I shared in the comment.
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Visuals can be so meaningful.
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We talk about failed integration or people with different backgrounds than the majority. Look at the integration of the 2 former German nations, DDR and Federal Republic of Germany!
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Despite being a designer, I never actually studied design in school. I studied International Relations. When I tell people how I think those two domains are intimately connected, I am still commonly met with raised eyebrows and confused expressions. But when I look back on my own career path and the things that have made me a more effective designer, I can confidently say that no other form of education could have better prepared me for the world of human-centered design than a degree in the humanities. Whether the focus is on products or policies, our design choices have an echo into the future that our typically short-term objectives rarely succeed in accounting for. With that in mind, I cannot help but look at maps like these and think about how the things that we design (whether it's a smartphone, an app, or an entire political/economic system) have a habit of returning the favor by redesigning pieces of our own internal realities.
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