Author: David B. Audretsch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190258691
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Europe and much of the developed world have been bogged down by stagnant economic growth and alarmingly high rates of unemployment. But not Germany. This book reveals seven key aspects of the German economy and society that have provided considerable buoyance in an era of global turbulence.
The Seven Secrets of Germany
Author: David B. Audretsch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190258691
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Europe and much of the developed world have been bogged down by stagnant economic growth and alarmingly high rates of unemployment. But not Germany. This book reveals seven key aspects of the German economy and society that have provided considerable buoyance in an era of global turbulence.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190258691
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Europe and much of the developed world have been bogged down by stagnant economic growth and alarmingly high rates of unemployment. But not Germany. This book reveals seven key aspects of the German economy and society that have provided considerable buoyance in an era of global turbulence.
From Old Regime to Industrial State
Author: Richard H. Tilly
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022672557X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
In From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany’s industrialization. While some hold that Germany experienced a sudden breakthrough to industrialization, the authors instead consider a long view, incorporating market demand, agricultural advances, and regional variations in industrial innovativeness, customs, and governance. They begin their assessment earlier than previous studies to show how the 18th-century emergence of international trade and the accumulation of capital by merchants fed commercial expansion and innovation. This book provides the history behind the modern German economic juggernaut.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022672557X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
In From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany’s industrialization. While some hold that Germany experienced a sudden breakthrough to industrialization, the authors instead consider a long view, incorporating market demand, agricultural advances, and regional variations in industrial innovativeness, customs, and governance. They begin their assessment earlier than previous studies to show how the 18th-century emergence of international trade and the accumulation of capital by merchants fed commercial expansion and innovation. This book provides the history behind the modern German economic juggernaut.
Selling the Economic Miracle
Author: Mark E. Spicka
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845452230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Through an examination of election campaign propaganda and various public relations campaigns, reflecting new electioneering techniques borrowed from the United States, this work explores how conservative political and economic groups sought to construct and sell a political meaning of the Social Market Economy and the Economic Miracle in West Germany during the 1950s.The political meaning of economics contributed to conservative electoral success, constructed a new belief in the free market economy within West German society, and provided legitimacy and political stability for the new Federal Republic of Germany.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845452230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Through an examination of election campaign propaganda and various public relations campaigns, reflecting new electioneering techniques borrowed from the United States, this work explores how conservative political and economic groups sought to construct and sell a political meaning of the Social Market Economy and the Economic Miracle in West Germany during the 1950s.The political meaning of economics contributed to conservative electoral success, constructed a new belief in the free market economy within West German society, and provided legitimacy and political stability for the new Federal Republic of Germany.
The Economic Consequences of the War
Author: Tamás Vonyó
Publisher: Cambridge Studies in Economic History: Second Series
ISBN: 1107128439
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
This exploration of the statistical evidence on Germany's post-war reconstruction sheds new light on the foundations of German economic power.
Publisher: Cambridge Studies in Economic History: Second Series
ISBN: 1107128439
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
This exploration of the statistical evidence on Germany's post-war reconstruction sheds new light on the foundations of German economic power.
Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
Author: Volker Rolf Berghahn
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845450113
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
A comprehensive history of German society in this period, providing a broad survey of its development. The volume is thematically organized and designed to give easy access to the major topics and issues of the Bismarkian and Wilhelmine eras. The statistical appendix contains a wide range of social, economic and political data. Written with the English-speaking student in mind, this book is likely to become a widely used text for this period, incorporating as it does twenty years of further research on the German Empire since the appearance of Hans-Ulrich Wehler's classic work.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845450113
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
A comprehensive history of German society in this period, providing a broad survey of its development. The volume is thematically organized and designed to give easy access to the major topics and issues of the Bismarkian and Wilhelmine eras. The statistical appendix contains a wide range of social, economic and political data. Written with the English-speaking student in mind, this book is likely to become a widely used text for this period, incorporating as it does twenty years of further research on the German Empire since the appearance of Hans-Ulrich Wehler's classic work.
Optimizing the German Workforce
Author: David Meskill
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845456313
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
During the twentieth century, German government and industry created a highly skilled workforce as part of an ambitious program to control and develop the country’s human resources. Yet, these long-standing efforts to match as many workers as possible to skilled vocations and to establish a system of job training have received little scholarly attention, until now. The author’s account of the broad support for this program challenges the standard historical accounts that focus on disagreements over the German political-economic order and points instead to an important area of consensus. These advances are explained in terms of political policies of corporatist compromise and national security as well as industry’s evolving production strategies. By tracing the development of these policies over the course of a century, the author also suggests important continuities in Germany’s domestic politics, even across such different regimes as Imperial, Weimar, Nazi, and post-1945 West Germany.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845456313
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
During the twentieth century, German government and industry created a highly skilled workforce as part of an ambitious program to control and develop the country’s human resources. Yet, these long-standing efforts to match as many workers as possible to skilled vocations and to establish a system of job training have received little scholarly attention, until now. The author’s account of the broad support for this program challenges the standard historical accounts that focus on disagreements over the German political-economic order and points instead to an important area of consensus. These advances are explained in terms of political policies of corporatist compromise and national security as well as industry’s evolving production strategies. By tracing the development of these policies over the course of a century, the author also suggests important continuities in Germany’s domestic politics, even across such different regimes as Imperial, Weimar, Nazi, and post-1945 West Germany.
Germany
Author: Sheilagh C. Ogilvie
Publisher: Hodder Education
ISBN: 9780340652169
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Part of a three volume series that explores social and economic change in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present day, this third volume examines Germany's late but explosive economic transformation after 1800, the cycles of war, defeat and dictatorship, and the German economic miracle after 1950.
Publisher: Hodder Education
ISBN: 9780340652169
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Part of a three volume series that explores social and economic change in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present day, this third volume examines Germany's late but explosive economic transformation after 1800, the cycles of war, defeat and dictatorship, and the German economic miracle after 1950.
German Economic and Business History in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Author: Werner Plumpe
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113751860X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
German economic history in the industrial age has classically formed an important basis for the study of economic growth and industrialisation more generally. This book aims to introduce English-language readers to modern German economic history based on a selection of work by one of Germany's leading economic and business historians, Werner Plumpe, who places particular emphasis on the institutional structure of the economy. Plumpe's work demonstrates that the country's economic evolution can only be understood by paying close attention to institutional peculiarities, such as the shape of industrial relations and the dynamics of corporate decision-making. It also emphasises the importance of the interconnectedness of capital and labour in the German coordinated market economy and draws attention to individual events and decisions that may have driven long-term economic development, but are rarely considered in approaches that deal primarily with macroeconomic growth. German Economic and Business History in the 19th and 20th Century shows that Germany's economic history still warrants the application of an institutional view of economic transformation that is slightly different from the more formal perspectives dominant in the UK and the US. The book serves as a practical demonstration of a historicist approach to economic history introduced by the German Historical School a century ago, which still inspires large parts of German economic historiography./div
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113751860X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
German economic history in the industrial age has classically formed an important basis for the study of economic growth and industrialisation more generally. This book aims to introduce English-language readers to modern German economic history based on a selection of work by one of Germany's leading economic and business historians, Werner Plumpe, who places particular emphasis on the institutional structure of the economy. Plumpe's work demonstrates that the country's economic evolution can only be understood by paying close attention to institutional peculiarities, such as the shape of industrial relations and the dynamics of corporate decision-making. It also emphasises the importance of the interconnectedness of capital and labour in the German coordinated market economy and draws attention to individual events and decisions that may have driven long-term economic development, but are rarely considered in approaches that deal primarily with macroeconomic growth. German Economic and Business History in the 19th and 20th Century shows that Germany's economic history still warrants the application of an institutional view of economic transformation that is slightly different from the more formal perspectives dominant in the UK and the US. The book serves as a practical demonstration of a historicist approach to economic history introduced by the German Historical School a century ago, which still inspires large parts of German economic historiography./div
Statistics and the German State, 1900-1945
Author: J. Adam Tooze
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521803182
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This book considers statistical innovation, 1900-45, in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521803182
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This book considers statistical innovation, 1900-45, in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich.
The Plans That Failed
Author: André Steiner
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 178238314X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The establishment of the Communist social model in one part of Germany was a result of international postwar developments, of the Cold War waged by East and West, and of the resultant partition of Germany. As the author argues, the GDR’s ‘new’ society was deliberately conceived as a counter-model to the liberal and marketregulated system. Although the hopes connected with this alternative system turned out to be misplaced and the planned economy may be thoroughly discredited today, it is important to understand the context in which it developed and failed. This study, a bestseller in its German version, offers an in-depth exploration of the GDR economy’s starting conditions and the obstacles to growth it confronted during the consolidation phase. These factors, however, were not decisive in the GDR’s lack of growth compared to that of the Federal Republic. As this study convincingly shows, it was the economic model that led to failure.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 178238314X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The establishment of the Communist social model in one part of Germany was a result of international postwar developments, of the Cold War waged by East and West, and of the resultant partition of Germany. As the author argues, the GDR’s ‘new’ society was deliberately conceived as a counter-model to the liberal and marketregulated system. Although the hopes connected with this alternative system turned out to be misplaced and the planned economy may be thoroughly discredited today, it is important to understand the context in which it developed and failed. This study, a bestseller in its German version, offers an in-depth exploration of the GDR economy’s starting conditions and the obstacles to growth it confronted during the consolidation phase. These factors, however, were not decisive in the GDR’s lack of growth compared to that of the Federal Republic. As this study convincingly shows, it was the economic model that led to failure.