Business in the Age of Extremes : Essays in Modern German and Austrian Economic History
ISBN: 9781107016958 | 1107016959
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 2/28/2013
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This collection of essays explores the impact that nationalism, capitalism, and socialism had on economics during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on Central Europe, contributors examine the role that businesspeople and enterprises played in Germany's and Austria's paths to the catastrophe of Nazism. Based on new archival research, the essays gathered here ask how the business community became involved in the political process and describes the consequences arising from that involvement.
| From the Late Wilhelmine Empire to the Great Depression | |
| The Kaiser and his ship-owner: Albert Ballin, the HAPAG Shipping Company, and the relationship between industry and politics in imperial Germany and the Early Weimar Republic | |
| Carl Duisberg, the end of World War I, and the birth of social partnership from the spirit of defeat | |
| Austrian reconstruction, 1920-1921: a matter for private business or the League of Nations? | |
| Rudolf ... MORE | |
| Populism and political entrepreneurship: the universalization of German savings banks and the decline of American savings banks, 1908-1934 | |
| The 1931 Central European Banking Crisis revisited | |
| Science and science policy during the Nazi era: the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft and the Deutsche | |
| 'A regulated market economy': new perspectives on the nature of the economic order of the Third Reich, 1933-1939 | |
| The personal factor in business under National Socialism: the case of Paul Reusch and Friedrich | |
| Business as usual? Aryanization in practice, 1933-1938 | |
| The dispossession of the Jews and the Europeanization of the Holocaust | |
| Managing the assets of the enemy in occupied France: the electrical industry | |
| Appendix:the historian | |
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