Werner Abelshauser erschließt die Welt eines Mannes, der wie kein zweiter die Praxis des demokratischen Sozialismus verkörpert. Viele der Herausforderungen, die sich Hans Matthöfer stellten, sind noch immer akut, seine Antworten immer noch aktuell. Sein facettenreiches Leben erlaubt es, die...

This book focuses on two major industrialists and their respective industries during the rise and governance of the National Socialist party: Jakob Reichert (iron and steel) and Karl Lange (machine building).

As a result of the prevailing governance structure, economic policy in democracies usually suffers from specific deficiencies. Among these are the predominance of distributive over efficiency objectives, the neglect of long-run effects, and the lack of or biased use of expert knowledge in the...