Business and Politics in Europe, 1900-1970

ISBN-13: 9780521823449 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 358 str.

T. R. Gourvish; Terry Gourvish

Opis

Providing fresh insights into the interaction between politics and business in twentieth-century Europe, this book indicates the complexity of the relationship--particularly in the environment of the 1920s and 1930s--when fascism was at its height. Distinctive contributions are also made regarding the contrasting behaviors of businessmen and institutions in response to the Great Depression; the rise of Hitler and the "Jewish question"; the role of business networks in the politics of Belgium and Greece; and the business-politics dimension in the formation of the Irish Republic.

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Introduction: the business-government relationship Terry Gourvish; 2. Business and government in twentieth-century Sweden: a tale of income Håken Lindgren; 3. An economic background to Berchtesgaden: business and economic policy Herbert Matis; 4. Business, politics and revolution in early twentieth-century Ireland Philip Ollerenshaw; Part I. Banking Finance: 5. Bankers and politics in Belgium in the twentieth century Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryk; 6. Central bank co-operation and Romanian stabilisation, 1926–9 Philip Cottrell; 7. Government, the banks and industry in interwar Britain Lucy Newton; Part II. Business and Politics in the National Socialist Period: 8. German business and the Nazi new order Richard Overy; 9. 'Aryanisation' in central Europe, 1933–9: a preliminary account of Germany (the 'Altreich'), Austria and the 'Sudeten' area Dieter Ziegler, Harald Wixforth and Jörg Osterloh; 10. The 'Gildmeester-Organisation for Assistance to Emigrants' and the expulsion of the Jews from Vienna, 1938–42 Peter Berger; 11. Deutsche Lufthansa and the German state, 1926–41 Peter Lyth; Part III. The Business Community and the State: 12. Government and industry in Austria in the 1930s Gertrude Enderle-Burcel; 13. Business and politics: the state and the networks in Greece Margarita Dritsas; 14. Economic efficiency and nationality: the Siemens subsidiary Elektrotechna in the first Czechoslovak republic Christoph Boyer; Alice Teichova: a bibliography.