Preindustrial businesses: the time of the merchant -- The many paths to industrialization -- British and German businesses during industrialization -- Big and small businesses in industrializing America -- Japanese and Chinese businesses during industrialization -- American, British, and German...

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary and abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Official statistics and the crisis of the Wilhelmine state -- 2 The Republic's new numbers, 1918-1923 -- 3 Weimar's macroeconomic statistics, 1924-1929 -- 4 The crisis of Weimar's...

German economic history in the industrial age has classically formed an important basis for the study of economic growth and industrialisation more generally. This book aims to introduce English-language readers to modern German economic history based on a selection of work by one of Germany's...