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Reconsidering Europeanization
This pertinent and highly original volume explores how ideas of Europe and processes of continental political, socio-economic, and cultural integration have been intertwined since the nineteenth century. Applying a wider definition of Europeanization in the sense of "becoming European", it will pay equal attention to counter-processes of disentanglement and disintegration that have accompanied, slowed down, or displaced such trends and developments. By focusing on the practices, agents, and experience of Europeanization, the volume strives to bring together the history of ideas and the history of human actions and conduct, two approaches that are usually treated separately in the field of European studies.
Allianz and the German Insurance Business, 1933–1945
This history of the internationally prominent insurance corporation Allianz AG in the Nazi era is based largely on new or previously unavailable archival sources. This book joins a growing body of scholarship based on free access to the records of German corporations in the Nazi era.
Research Handbook on the History of Corporate and Company Law
Understanding the corporation means understanding its legal framework, but until recently the origins and evolution of corporate law have received relatively little attention. The topical chapters featured in this Research Handbook, contributed by leading scholars from around the world, examine the historical development of corporation and business organization law in the Americas, Europe, and Asia from the ancient world to modern times, providing an invaluable resource for both further historical research and scholars seeking the origins of present-day issues.
Allianz
On February 5, 1890, the First District Royal Court of Prussia in Berlin entered a new enter prise into the corporate trade register: the „Allianz Versicherungs-Aktien-Gesellschaft“. 125 years later, Allianz is one of the largest international financial services prividers. This book tells the story of the company’s history in a lucidandent ertaining way. Even before the First World War, Allianz had entered the international insurance industry. But the two World Warsde stroy edits early attempts at global expansion. Not until the 1980s was Allianz able to reach the same degree of internationalization it had already achieved before 1914, breaking through to become a global insurer. Since...
Munich Re
"Reinsurance has to be international in accordance with its nature." This is the well-known viewpoint of Carl von Thieme, one of the founders of Munich Re, who also served as its general director for many years. Thus, it was not a coincidence that the company rose to become the world market leader rather quickly after its founding in 1880. In the following period, Munich Re stayed on top or was occasionally second to Swiss Re. Nonetheless, the broader public does not know much about the company. Johannes Bähr and Christopher Kopper now present the first history of the reinsurer from its beginnings into the 1980s. Few companies have risen to become world market leaders as quickly as Munich R...
Productivity Machines
How productivity culture and technology became emblematic of the American economic system in pre- and postwar Germany. The concept of productivity originated in a statistical measure of output per worker or per work-hour, calculated by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. A broader productivity culture emerged in 1920s America, as Henry Ford and others linked methods of mass production and consumption to high wages and low prices. These ideas were studied eagerly by a Germany in search of economic recovery after World War I, and, decades later, the Marshall Plan promoted productivity in its efforts to help post–World War II Europe rebuild. In Productivity Machines, Corinna Schlombs examines ...
Gegenwartsgeschichte der deutschen Wirtschaft
Das Thema dieses Buches ist die Wechselwirkung zwischen der Wirtschaftsordnung und der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung in den unterschiedlichen Wirtschaftssystemen Deutschlands seit 1945, der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft der alten Bundesrepublik Deutschland, der Staatssozialistischen Planwirtschaft der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik und der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft im vereinten Deutschland.
Ich bin so frei
Dieses Buch ist entstanden, weil ich an die Grenzen der vielzitierten „Freiheit“ gestoßen bin. Ich habe festgestellt, dass die Realität, in der wir leben, nicht sehr viel mit dem zu tun hat, was gemeinhin für unser „wiedervereintes“ Land als selbstverständlich gilt: die Presse- und Meinungsfreiheit, die Chancengleichheit Ost- und Westdeutschlands, die demokratische Mitbestimmung, eine Regierung, deren Politik den Wählerwillen widerspiegelt und die sich für ein friedliches Miteinander im Land und zwischen den Völkern einsetzt. Die Idee für ein Buch über Missstände, die die behauptete „Freiheit“ ad absurdum führen, habe ich letztlich meinem Beruf zu verdanken. Es ist, al...
