Business in the Age of Extremes (eBook, ePUB)

Essays in Modern German and Austrian Economic History
Redaktion: Berghoff, Hartmut

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. Particular attention is given to the responses of individual businesspeople to changing political circumstances and their efforts to balance the demands of their consciences with the pursuit for profit.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108635158
• Artikelnr.: 50463666

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Introduction: business in the age of extremes in
Central Europe Hartmut Berghoff, Jürgen Kocka and Dieter Ziegler; Part
I. From the Late Wilhelmine Empire to the Great Depression: 1. 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; 2. Carl Duisberg, the end of World
War I, and the birth of social partnership from the spirit of defeat Werner
Plumpe; 3. Austrian reconstruction, 1920-1: a matter for private business
or the League of Nations? Philip L. Cottrell; 4. Rudolf Sieghart and the
Austrian land credit institution: a case study of the Austrian banking
crisis of the 1920s and 1930s Peter Eigner; 5. Populism and political
entrepreneurship: the universalization of German savings banks and the
decline of American savings banks, 1908-34 Jeffrey Fear and R. Daniel
Wadhwani; 6. The 1931 Central European Banking Crisis revisited Harold
James; Part II. National Socialism, War, and the Holocaust: 7. Science and
science policy during the Nazi era: the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft and the
Deutsche Forzschungsgemeinschaft Reinhard Rürup; 8. 'A regulated market
economy': new perspectives on the nature of the economic order of the Third
Reich, 1933-9 Dieter Ziegler; 9. The personal factor in business under
National Socialism: the case of Paul Reusch and Friedrich Flick Johannes
Bähr; 10. Business as usual? Aryanization in practice, 1933-8 Ingo Köhler;
11. The dispossession of the Jews and the Europeanization of the Holocaust
Constantin Goschler; 12. Managing the assets of the enemy in occupied
France: the electrical industry Heidrun Homburg; Appendix: the historian
Gerald D. Feldman, 1937-2007: a tribute Jürgen Kocka; Bibliography: the
publications of Gerald D. Feldman; Index.