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Case Studies on Modern European Economy : Entrepreneurship, Inventions, and Institutions /
The last two centuries have been the scene of dramatic change throughout Europe. And one of the main causes of these tremendous and spectacular changes was the economy. These transformations were achieved by people: scientists and political thinkers, inventors and entrepreneurs, educators, skilled a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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- Case Studies on Modern European Economy Entrepreneurs, Inventions, Institutions; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Notes; 1 The power of entrepreneurship; Introduction; Mayer Amschel Bauer and the foundation of the House of Rothschild; James Nasmyth, the pioneer of standardized mass production of tools and machines; The Morozov dynasty: from illiterate serfs to Russia's richest industrialists; Werner and Wilhelm Siemens and the second industrial revolution; William R. Morris and the British car industry; Louis Renault and the French car industry.
- Emil and Walther Rathenau: the birth of the German electric and electrochemical industriesJewish entrepreneurship in Hungary; Women in business and management; The birth of the Vizcaya iron industry in Spain; Notes; 2 The power of institutions: economic regimes and the permanent renewal of capitalism; Introduction; The cycle of protectionism and laissez-faire in the market economy; The birth and renewal of capitalism: colonization and decolonization; German wartime Planwirtschaft: the cradle of new economic regimes; The economic regime of fascist modernization dictatorship.
- The non-market, centrally planned economic regimeThe Nazi Grossraumwirtschaft and the Soviet-led Comecon-regional autarchy; Trade unions and Sozialpartnerschaft; Renewal of capitalism: the welfare state; Renewal of capitalism: the regulated market system; The European Union's redistributive system: towards a homogenous Europe; Globalization: its winners and losers; Notes; 3 The power of ideas and inventions; Introduction; Enlightenment and Romanticism: the ideas of modern society and the nation-state; Liberal and secular values that formed the modern capitalist attitude.
- Pre-modern culture that blocked the road to the modern capitalist transformationThe two books that contributed the most to creating the modern world: Newton and Darwin; Inventing and reinventing agriculture; Revolutionizing transportation with the steam engine; Killing the killers: from vaccinations to antibiotics; The creation of synthetic dyes; Electrical power and its applications; From the macadam road to the autobahn; The birth of the movie; Women in work and on the labor market; Wernher von Braun: the visionary pioneer of the missile technique-and an "apolitical" war criminal.
- The computer, the internet, and the world wide webNotes; 4 Pioneering companies; Introduction; The empires' companies and the companies' empires; The port of Rotterdam-"port of Europe"; Rolex-one of the most successful Swiss watch-makers; Small is beautiful: "Fabriques collectives" in the Lyon silk industry; The Ganz Works: a cutting edge engineering company in a less developed country; The Thyssen empire: from local to global; The Universal Suez Ship Canal Company; The Orientalische Eisenbahnen company and German colonization plans; Vickers-Armstrong: the multi-arms military giant.