Download or read book Deutscher Kapitalismus written by Marie Cantin and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich BWL - Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Note: 1,0, Technische Universität Dortmund (Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die deutsche Wirtschaft zeichnete sich in den vier Jahrzehnten nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg als erfolgreichste der großen Volkswirtschaften aus (vgl. Streeck 1999 S. 13). Ihre spezifi-schen Merkmale sind vergleichsweise hohe Löhne bei einer geringen Ungleichheit von Ein-kommen und Lebensstandard. Erreicht wird dies unter anderem durch eine zwar kapitalisti-sche Marktwirtschaft, jedoch unter Einbeziehung einer großen Anzahl von Institutionen, die diese Marktwirtschaft organisieren und streng regulieren. Dieses ehemals so erfolgreiche deutsche System gerät jedoch mehr und mehr unter Druck, sodass zu bezweifeln ist, ob es in seiner ursprünglichen Art weiter erfolgreich sein kann. In dieser Seminararbeit soll das System des deutschen Kapitalismus mit seinen Schwächen und Belastungen, wie der relativ hohen Arbeitslosigkeit und einer nachlassenden Innovations-fähigkeit in den achtziger und neunziger Jahren, behandelt werden. Des Weiteren wird der Fragestellung nachgegangen, inwiefern die Wirtschaftskrise im Jahr 1993 ein Ende des bishe-rigen deutschen Kapitalismus bedeutet haben könnte. Welche Auswirkungen hatte die deut-sche Wiedervereinigung auf das sowieso geschwächte deutsche System? Ein weiterer zentra-ler Themenpunkt sind die Auswirkungen der Globalisierung auf den deutschen Kapitalismus. In welche Richtung kann er sich unter diesen schweren Bedingungen weiterentwickeln? Zu-letzt wird die Thematik von einem aktuellen Standpunkt, auch in Anbetracht der gerade zu-rückliegenden Wirtschaftskrise, betrachtet.

Download or read book Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany written by Moritz Föllmer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents fresh approaches to the history of capitalism in the context of Weimar and Nazi Germany.

Download or read book Der neue deutsche Kapitalismus written by Thomas Hanke and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Autor, Ressortleiter beim Handelsblatt, zeichnet ein positives Bild von den wirtschaftlichen Veränderungen und der Fähigkeit der Deutschen, sich auf neue Gegebenheiten einzustellen.

Download or read book Der deutsche Kapitalismus im Wandel written by Anita Bethig and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Note: 2,0, Universität zu Köln (Seminar für Politische Wissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Spielarten des Kapitalismus, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die deutsche Spielart des Kapitalismus hat sich in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten gewandelt. Besonders betroffene Bereiche sind die Unternehmensführung, die Rolle der Banken und der politische Einfluss. Dieser Wandlungsprozess hat das Verhalten der wirtschaftlichen und politischen Akteure verändert, so dass die neu entstandenen Strukturen einer aktualisierten Analyse bedürfen. Die Politikwissenschaftler Peter A. Hall und David Soskice haben in ihrem Buch „Varieties of Capitalism“ die deutsche Spielart des Kapitalismus eingeordnet und untersucht. Peter A. Hall ist Professor der Europawissenschaften und Co-Direktor des „Program on Successful Societies“ am Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. David Soskice ist Professor der Politikwissenschaft an der Duke University in North Carolina. Er hat darüber hinaus einen Lehrstuhl am Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung in Berlin (WZB) inne. Zur vergleichenden Analyse kapitalistischer Systeme wurden bisher der „modernization approach“ (Andrew A. Shonfield: 1965), der „neo-corporatism“ (Philippe Schmitter, Gerhard Lehmbruch: 1979) und der „social system of production approach“ (Michael J. Piore, Charles F. Sabel: 1986) herangezogen. Hall und Soskice legen den Schwerpunkt bei ihrem Ansatz auf die unterschiedlichen, institutionellen Ausprägungen politisch verfasster, ökonomischer Systeme und ermöglichen auf dieser Basis eine vergleichende Analyse nationalkapitalistischer Systeme. Dieser Ansatz wird auch „Institutionenökonomie“ genannt. Diese Arbeit will, ausgehend von Hall und Soskice, den Wandel der deutschen Spielart des Kapitalismus beschreiben. Dabei sollen die Spielart und der Ansatz der Autoren erläutert werden. Dazu werden nur einige Teilsphären der deutschen Kapitalismusvariante ausgewählt. Darüber hinaus soll mit Hilfe von themenbezogener Literatur, aktuellen Beispielen aus der Tagespresse und Statistiken überprüft werden, inwieweit der Ansatz zutreffend ist. Am Schluss sollen Aussagen dazu getroffen werden, ob Sicht von Hall und Soskice gestützt werden kann und wo Widersprüche bestehen.

Download or read book Re Forming Capitalism written by Wolfgang Streeck and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2009 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolfgang Streeck is a leading figure in comparative political economy and institutional theory. In this book he addresses some of the key arguments in these fields: the role of history in institutional analysis, the dynamics of slow institutional change, and the recurrent difficulties of restraining the effects of capitalism on social order.

Download or read book West German Industrialists and the Making of the Economic Miracle written by Armin Grünbacher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West German Industrialists and the Making of the Economic Miracle investigates the mentality of post-war German (heavy) industrialists through an analysis of their attitudes, thinking and views on social, political and, of course, economic matters at the time, including the 'social market economy' and how they saw their own role in society, with this investigation taking place against the backdrop of the 'economic miracle' and the Cold War of the 1950s and 60s. The book also includes an assessment of whether the self-declared, new 'aristocracy of merit' justified its place in society and carried out its actions in a new spirit of political responsibility. This is an important text for all students interested in the history of Germany and the modern economic history of Europe.

Download or read book Der deutsche Kapitalismus 1950 2023 written by Stephan Krüger and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Economic History of the First German Unification written by Ulrich Pfister and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a striking chronological parallel between Germany’s transition from a post-Malthusian regime to modern economic growth and the formation of a modern nation-state between the late 1860s and the early 1880s, which culminated in the events of 1871.The central question of this book is whether and how such state formation did in fact contribute to economic development. Twenty chapters written by leading experts in their respective fields deal with various aspects of the book’s main question. Together, they identify three channels by which national unification contributed to Germany’s economic development: (1) Creation of a nation-state completed a process of institutional Unification of a large inland area and thereby increased the integration of domestic markets. (2) Unification raised the capacity of the political system with respect to regulating complex domains, such as stock companies, patenting, and social insurance. (3) The emerging political regime of market-preserving federalism promoted the quality of economic institutions. Moreover, a set of chapters dealing with the experience of other European economies apart from Germany during the second half of the nineteenth century highlight additional factors in nineteenth-century economic development, most notably the first wave of modern globalization and economic geography. Readers interested in the history of state building and the economic history of Germany and of Europe in general during the age of industrialization and globalization and students of the economic effects of political integration and decentralized state growth will all gain much from this book.

Download or read book The German Historical School written by Yuichi Shionoya and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000-10-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book clarifies the approach of the German Historical School by the reconstruction of their achievements in terms of rational and historical context.

Download or read book Rhenish Capitalism written by Christian Marx and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhenish capitalism is an ideal-typical model of capitalism which is characterised by a bank-centered financing system, close economic ties between banks and companies, a balance of power between shareholders and management, and a social partnership between unions and employers. The West German economy of the 1950s to the 1980s is the prime example of that model of capitalism which contrasts with the liberal Anglo-Saxon forms of capitalism. In accordance with recent debates about Varieties of Capitalism, the authors argue that research on capitalism should pay more attention to change over time. The book also claims to put the firm into the centre of analysis. The empirical contributions uncover the differences between French and German corporate governance practices comparing two European automobile producers (VW and Renault), analyse legal debates and practices of corporate control in post-war Germany, show the tension between national corporate governance and increasing internationalisation by reference to four major West German producers of chemicals, pharmaceuticals and fibres; and explore the opportunities encountered by German big banks vis-à-vis their customers from big industry. Furthermore, they show that coordinating culture in the supply relationship of the German automobile industry came under pressure at the end of the boom and stress the importance of communication processes as a basis for interest coordination in Rhenish capitalism. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Business History.

Download or read book Capitalism According to Sombart and Max Weber Der Kapitalismus Bei Sombart Und written by Talcott Parsons and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the German text of Talcott Parsons' doctoral dissertation draft, written in German and now translated into English. This work reflects Parsons' strong interest in societal explanations of capitalism, which he found in the works of Werner Sombart and Max Weber during his study years in Heidelberg. For Parsons, studying the "spirit of capitalism" in the late 1920s meant the beginning of a long career in sociology. In their introductory texts the translators offer an insight into the historical context in which this work had been written.

Download or read book German Colonialism Revisited written by Nina Berman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of interdisciplinary and comparative studies focusing on diverse interactions among African, Asian, and Oceanic peoples and German colonizers

Download or read book Technology in Modern German History written by Karsten Uhl and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People often associate postwar Germany with technology and with its products of mass consumption, such as luxury cars. Even pop music, most notably Kraftwerk (literally 'power station') with songs such as Autobahn, Radioactivity or We are the Robots, disseminates the stereotype of a close link between German culture and technology. Technology in Modern German History explores various forms of technology in 200 years of German history and explains how technology has been fundamental to the shaping of modern Germany. The book investigates the role technology played in transforming Germany's culture, society and politics during the 19th and 20th centuries. Key topics covered include the different stages of industrialization, the growth of networked cities, and the triumph of a teleological narrative of technology as progress. Moreover, it provides a critical revision of the history of high technology which reveals how high-tech euphoria determined certain paths in history regardless of whether the respective technology proved to be successful. In its second part, the volume introduces new avenues in scholarship. Karsten Uhl examines neglected areas, such as rural technologies or the often-overlooked importance of everyday technologies: How did consumers or workers use new technologies? How did they appropriate and modify them? Lastly, the book considers the final decades of the 20th century and asks if they provided a significant new quality of technological change: To what degree and effects did computerization transform professional and private life in Germany? In culture and politics, reinforced by the German variety of environmentalism, the idea of progress was challenged, as the once prevailing vision of progress gave way to new apprehensions of uncertainty evident to this day. Technology in Modern German History brings fascinating insight into a much neglected area of German history for students and scholars alike.

Download or read book The Insider Outsider of Early 20th Century German Industry written by Volker R. Berghahn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the life and work of Günter Henle, Volker R. Berghahn examines the postwar West German approach to labour relations and European integration. The study of Henle simultaneously allows Berghahn to reflect on the unique insights into German Jewish life before and during the Nazi dictatorship that his story provides. The book looks at how Henle suffered from Nazi persecution, but was ultimately protected by the Establishment he had married into. It then charts how, reinstated after 1945, he involved himself not only in the reconstruction of his Klockner industrial enterprise, but also in the rebuilding of the West German economy and society, and the development of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) - the embryo of what was ultimately to become the European Union. The Insider-Outsider of Early 20th-Century German Industry discusses West European and American strategies to complement NATO as the political and military counter to the perceived threat of the Soviet Bloc with the creation of institutions for economic cooperation. It is a timely analysis which stresses the importance of cooperation between employers, trade unions and government in securing compromise, social peace and economic stability in trans-Atlantic perspective at a time when the neo-liberal axioms of Thatcherite and Reaganite shareholder societies are again being held against the strengths of the managed stakeholder societies of the early post-war decades.

Download or read book Surviving Globalization written by Stefan Beck and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-04-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: society, and state (Streeck, 1999; Simonis, 1998). Interspersed between these most commonly named elements are the following: First, the high political integrating force of the German Model after WWII was based on the adoption and transformation of corporatist political structures from National Socialist Germany. Liberal capitalism was (re)introduced under political competition between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, who eventually found common ground in the politically mediated compromise between capital and labor: “This compromise was negotiated and institutionalized at a time when the communist wing of the workers movement and the authoritarian voices of German capital – for various reasons – were excluded from political participation” (Streeck, 1999, p. 15; translation: SB). The partnership between firms and unions manifested itself in manifold institutional structures. Apart from the social partners’ autonomy in matters of wage policy, worker codetermination at plant level and in operations is regarded as one of the special achievements of the German Model and has contributed substantially to social peace. The political coordination forms of concerted action, round tables, as well as modernization and crisis cartels gave birth to a highly complex political decision-making structure which, based on a federalist setup, has rightly been called “negotiation state” (Esser, 1998, p. 123). Second, the material foundation of this “Social Democratic class compromise” (Buci-Glucksmann & Therborn, 1981) consisted in the Federal Republic’s – in the words of Göste Esping-Andersen – “conservative-liberal” form of welfare state.

Download or read book Visions of Modernity American Business and the Modernization of Germany written by Mary Nolan Professor of History New York University and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994-06-27 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In much the same way that Japan has become the focus of contemporary American discussion about industrial restructuring, Germans in the economic reform in terms of Americanism and Fordism, seeing in the United States an intriguing vision for a revitalized economy and a new social order. During the 1920s, Germans were fascinated by American economic success and its quintessential symbols, Henry Ford and his automobile factories. Mary Nolan's book explores the contradictory ways in which trade unionists and industrialists, engineers and politicians, educators and social workers explained American economic success, envisioned a more efficient or "rationalized" economic system for Germany, and anguished over the social and cultural costs of adopting the American version of modernity. These debates about Americanism and Fordism deeply shaped German perceptions of what was economically and socially possible and desirable in terms of technology and work, family and gender relations, consumption and culture. Nolan examines efforts to transform production and consumption, factories and homes, and argues that economic Americanism was implemented ambivalently and incompletely, producing, in the end, neither prosperity nor political stability. Vision of Modernity will appeal not only to scholars of German History and those interested in European social and working-class history, but also to industrial sociologists and business scholars.

Download or read book Visions of Modernity written by Mary Nolan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In much the same way that Japan has become the focus of contemporary American discussion about industrial restructuring, Germans in the economic reform in terms of Americanism and Fordism, seeing in the United States an intriguing vision for a revitalized economy and a new social order. During the 1920s, Germans were fascinated by American economic success and its quintessential symbols, Henry Ford and his automobile factories. Mary Nolan's book explores the contradictory ways in which trade unionists and industrialists, engineers and politicians, educators and social workers explained American economic success, envisioned a more efficient or "rationalized" economic system for Germany, and anguished over the social and cultural costs of adopting the American version of modernity. These debates about Americanism and Fordism deeply shaped German perceptions of what was economically and socially possible and desirable in terms of technology and work, family and gender relations, consumption and culture. Nolan examines efforts to transform production and consumption, factories and homes, and argues that economic Americanism was implemented ambivalently and incompletely, producing, in the end, neither prosperity nor political stability. Vision of Modernity will appeal not only to scholars of German History and those interested in European social and working-class history, but also to industrial sociologists and business scholars.