Marco Bertilorenzi

The International Aluminium Cartel

The Business and Politics of a Cooperative Industrial Institution (1886-1978)

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Produktbeschreibung

Aluminium was one of most cartelised industries in the international economic panorama of the 20th century. Born following the discovery of electrolytic smelting process in 1886, this industry, even in its infancy, established a cartel which characterised its history until nearly 1980. Managers of the aluminium industry from various historical eras and countries shared the same vision about the development of their industry: to keep prices as stable as possible in order to encourage expansions and to provide return on investments. Price instability, which characterised the trade of other commodities, was unknown to the aluminium industry. This book neither argues that cartels are fundamentally evil, nor attempts to demonstrate that cartels are optimal business organisations. It instead provides an in-depth and frank analysis of the internal working of industrial organisations and of the interplay between cartels and political powers and institutions. The International Aluminium Cartel offers explanations for the construction and collapse of cartels, descriptions of their operations, and an historical interpretation of their experiences. Incorporating information gleaned from a unique collection of private and public archives from several countries, this unique study will appeal to a wide variety of readers, including academics interested in industrial and business history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 761g
• ISBN-13: 9780415742542
• ISBN-10: 0415742544
• Artikelnr.: 42091669

Autorenporträt

Marco Bertilorenzi is Researcher at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: From Patents Sharing to Cartels: The rise of the Aluminium Association (1886
1914) 1. Scale, Scope, and Agreements: The birth of the modern aluminium industry, 1886
1900 2. The Aluminium
Association: The dawn of the international cartelisation, 1901
1908 3. Changes at the Top: The new Aluminium
Association, 1909
1914 Part II: Competition and Cooperation from the First World War to the Great Depression (1915
1930) 4. The Great Aluminium War, 1914
1921 5. The Return of Cartelisation: The European Aluminium Association, 1922
1928 6. European Cartel versus American Trust: Cooperation and rivalry in a difficult economic environment, 1928
1930 Part III: Business, Finance and Politics: The rise and fall of the Alliance (1931
1945) 7. The New World Cartel: The inception of Alliance Aluminium Compagnie, 1931
1933 8. The "Great Transformation" of Alliance: An international cartel in an autarkic world, 1934
1938 9. A Cartel in the Turmoil of the War: The causes of Alliance's termination, 1939
1945 Part IV: Resumption, Collapse and Criminalisation of the Aluminium Governance (1945
1978) 10. The Post
War Governance for Aluminium Industry: The sunset of Alliance and the rise of the "Club," 1945
1953 11. Institutional Innovations: Toward a new balanced equilibrium in the aluminium industry, 1953
1969 12. The "Swan
Song" of the Aluminium Cartel: The end and the criminalisation of the aluminium governance, 1970
1978 (1984)