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Author Abelshauser, Werner.

Title The dynamics of German industry : Germany's path toward the new economy and the American challenge / Werner Abelshauser
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 168 pages) : illustrations
Series Making sense of history ; v. 6
Making sense of history ; v. 6.
Contents The Dynamics of German Industry; Series Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction; 2. The Splendor and Misery of Rhine Capitalism ; II. The German Empire-Hothouse of Postindustrial Institutions ; 1. From Liberalism to the Coordinated Production Regime ; 2. Patterns of Socialization Compared: The Economies of Germany and Great Britain ; 3. Interest Intermediation between Societal and State Corporatism ; III. The German Production Regime ; 1. The Production Regime of the Coordinated Market Economy ; 2. The American Challenge
3. Codetermination: The German Response to the Agency Problem 4. Social Market Economy: Production-Related Design of the Organization and Rules of the Economy ; IV. The German Road to the Twenty-first Century ; 1. Many Roads Lead to Rome ; 2. Anachronisms of the "Economic Miracle" ; 3. Strengths and Weaknesses of the German Production Regime ; Postscript; Select Bibliography; Subject Index
Summary Over the past decade, the ""German Model"" of industrial organization has been the subject of vigorous debate among social scientists and historians, especially in comparison to the American one. Is a ""Rhenish capitalism"" still viable at the beginning of the 21st century and does it offer a road to the New Economy different from the one, in which the standards are set by the U.S.? The author, one of Germany's leading economic historians, analyzes the special features of the German path to the New Economy as it faces the American challenge. He paints a fascinating picture of Germany Inc. and
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-160) and index
Notes Translated from the German by David R. Antal
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Subject Industrial organization -- Germany
Industrial organization -- United States
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Economic history
Industrial organization
Social conditions
Wirtschaftssystem
SUBJECT Germany -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054493
Germany -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054654
Subject Germany
United States
Deutschland
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781782387992
1782387994