This book provides a critical analysis of visual images of British and international finance during the nineteenth century. Its focus is on the financiers themselves, contrasting the depiction of the respectable Merchant Princes with the less than perfect charlatans (white-collar criminals) who...

This book provides a critical analysis of visual images of British and international finance during the nineteenth century. Its focus is on the financiers themselves, contrasting the depiction of the respectable Merchant Princes with the less than perfect charlatans (white-collar criminals) who...

Theoretical Articles -- The Family Business — Remnant or Elixir of the Market Economy? -- Management Mistakes — Do We Need More History in Business Economics? -- Historical Studies -- Germany on the World Market at the End of the 19th Century. Successful Supplier of Consumer Related...

The German Yearbook on Business History is a source of insights into the entrepreneurial economy of the 19th and 20th centuries. It contains translations of topical journal articles and informative reviews of results and trends in business history research. As in the previous Yearbooks, the...

Contents: Practical Corner: The Evolution of the Exchange Rate from "Sacrosanct" Parity to Flexible Monetary Policy Instrument.- Historical Studies: The Society for Business History: A Decade of Work. The Bankers Simon and Abraham Oppenheim 1812-1880. The Private Background to Their Professional...

Theoretical Articles -- Structural Problems of German Industry in International Comparison -- Can Societies Learn from Economic Crises? -- What can the Businessman Learn from History, especially Business History? -- Studies -- The Establishment of the Life Insurance Business in Germany in the...

Entrepreneurs and Society -- “Co-Determination at Company Level” -- Capital Raised and its Use by German Mechanical Engineering Firms in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries -- The German Feeble Current Cable Association (DSV) — Background, Foundation and Early Years (1876–1917) -- Italian...

The Change in Leadership and Continuity in an Enterprise -- On the Re-Discovery of the Entrepreneur in Economic Policy Discussion -- The Banks and the Steel Industry in the Ruhr. Developments in Relations from 1873 to 1914 -- The Entrepreneur, the Family and Capitalism. Some Examples from the...