Frontmatter -- Inhalt / Contents -- Guest Editorial -- Abhandlungen/Original Papers -- On the Shoulders of Giants: Tracing Back the Intellectual Sources of the Current Debate on “GDP and Beyond” to the 19th Century -- Sustainability of Public Debt in Germany - Historical Considerations and Time Series Evidence -- Recurrent Price Index Problems and Some Early German Papers on Index Numbers -- From the Zollverein to the Economics of Regionalism -- The Relevance of Census Results for a Modern Society -- Celebrating 150 Years of Analyzing Fertility Trends in Germany -- Monetary Theory and Monetary Policy: Reflections on the Development over the last 150 Years -- Buchbesprechung / Book Review