Thirty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, socialism is back in fashion. The anniversary is a good occasion to reflect on some of the lessons that we have collectively un-learned, or perhaps never learned properly in the first place from the fall of Communism.
The division of Germany into a broadly capitalist West, and a broadly socialist East, represented a natural experiment, and did so in two ways.
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