Helene Lieser · 1935
Helene Lieser’s brief book review evaluates Buschke’s account of German foreign-exchange regulations as an introduction for practitioners. She first distinguishes its independent exposition from a reproduction of statutory texts, noting that much of it originally appeared as a weekly supplement to the Berliner Börsen-Berichten. Her judgment turns on its usefulness to readers without regular experience of the regulatory system:
Das Problem, dem Praktiker, der nicht regelmäßig mit der deutschen Devisenbewirtschaftung zu tun hat, ein Bild davon zu geben, ist geschickt gelöst.
English translation: The problem of giving the practitioner who does not regularly deal with German foreign-exchange controls a picture of them is skillfully solved.
The review then defines the limits of that achievement. Accessibility does not mean dispensing with legal study:
Der Verfasser hat nicht den Ehrgeiz, das Studium der Gesetze überflüssig zu machen. Er will nur dem, der sich neu mit dem Gegenstande befaßt, den richtigen Weg weisen.
English translation: The author does not aspire to make studying the laws superfluous. He wishes only to point those newly approaching the subject in the right direction.
Lieser’s central distinction is between orientation and substitution: the book succeeds by guiding newcomers toward the law, not by replacing it. Her endorsement concerns practical exposition, rather than the economic merits of foreign-exchange controls.
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