Business in the age of extremes essays in modern German and Austrian economic history
"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 p...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2013.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Publications of the German Historical Institute. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38453745*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pt. 1. 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 / Gerhard A. Ritter; Carl Duisberg, the end of World War I, and the birth of social partnership from the spirit of defeat / Werner Plumpe; Austrian reconstruction, 1920-1921: a matter for private business or the League of Nations? / Philip L. Cottrell; Rudolf Sieghart and the Austrian land credit institution: a case study of the Austrian banking crisis of the 1920s and 1930s / Peter Eigner; Populism and political entrepreneurship: the universalization of German savings banks and the decline of American savings banks, 1908-1934 / Jeffrey Fear and R. Daniel Wadhwani; The 1931 Central European Banking Crisis revisited / Harold James
- pt. 2. National Socialism, war, and the Holocaust. Science and science policy during the Nazi era: the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft and the Deutsche Forzschungsgemeinschaft / Reinhard Rürup; 'A regulated market economy': new perspectives on the nature of the economic order of the Third Reich, 1933-1939 / Dieter Ziegler; The personal factor in business under National Socialism: the case of Paul Reusch and Friedrich Flick / Johannes Bähr; Business as usual? Aryanization in practice, 1933-1938 / Ingo Köhler; The dispossession of the Jews and the Europeanization of the Holocaust / Constantin Goschler; Managing the assets of the enemy in occupied France: the electrical industry / Heidrun Homburg.
