The trade of the Western industrial states with Eastern Europe has been the object of keen political interest in the past year or two although it accounts for no more than 5–6 p.c. of the total foreign commerce of the OECD countries. The current discussion about the future of the economic...

As soon as about 1900, the German electrical industry was seen by many contemporaries as the prototype of future capitalist concentration. Indeed, the two great enterprises of this period, Siemens and AEG, seemed to represent such an overwhelming power that potential founders would be...

This article supports the thesis that branch-specific analyses of competition and concentration of capital are necessary to grasp the current processes of industrial restructuring. In particular, new forms of a network-like organization of production should be interpreted as a means to expand...