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Business in the Age of Extremes
Essays in Modern German and Austrian Economic History
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Business in the Age of Extremes
Essays in Modern German and Austrian Economic History
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: Business in the Age of Extremes in Central Europe
- PART I From the Late Wilhelmine Empire to the Great Depression
- 2 Carl Duisberg, the End of World War I, and the Birth of Social Partnership from the Spirit of Defeat
- 3 Austrian Reconstruction, 1920-1921: A Matter for Private Business or the League of Nations?
- 4 Rudolf Sieghart and the Boden-Credit-Anstalt: A Case Study of the Austrian Banking Crisis of the 1920s and 1930s
- 5 Populism and Political Entrepreneurship: The Universalization of German Savings Banks and the Decline of U.S. Savings Banks, 1908-1934
- 6 The 1931 Central European Banking Crisis Revisited
- PART II National Socialism, War, and the Holocaust
- 8 “A Regulated Market Economy”: New Perspectives on the Nature of the Economic Order of the Third Reich, 1933-1939
- 9 The Personal Factor in Business under National Socialism: Paul Reusch and Friedrich Flick
- 10 Business as Usual? Aryanization in Practice, 1933-1938
- 11 The Dispossession of the Jews and the Europeanization of the Holocaust
- 12 Managing Enemy Assets in Occupied France: The Electrical Industry
- Appendix The Historian Gerald D. Feldman, 1937-2007: A Tribute
- Bibliography: The Publications of Gerald D. Feldman
- Index
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