"Technologies have created crucial connections across borders requiring new forms of regulation. This book analyses how experts, cartels and international organizations have written the rules for Europe since around 1850. Based on fresh research in the archives of multiple international...

The power of entrepreneurship -- The power of institutions: economic regimes and the permanent renewal of capitalism -- The power of ideas and inventions -- Pioneering companies -- From the rise of industrial cities to post-industrial suburbanization -- Bubbles, great depressions: economic cycles