Machine generated contents note: Introduction The Strange Persistence of Policy Concertation 1 -- Hugh Compston -- PART I COUNTRY STUDIES -- Chapter 1 Austria in Historical Perspective: From Civil War to -- Social Partnership 19 -- Jill Lewis -- Chapter 2 Austria in the 1990s: The Routine of...

Into the twentieth century -- I: Last best years of the golden age, 1896-1914. Global capitalism triumphant -- Defenders of the global economy -- Success stories of the golden age -- Failures of development -- Problems of the global economy -- II: Things fall apart, 1914-1939. "All that is solid...

Investors have too often extrapolated from recent experience. In the 1950s, who but the most rampant optimist would have dreamt that over the next fifty years the real return on equities would be 9% per year? Yet this is what happened in the U.S. stock market. The optimists triumphed. However,...