This study explains how businessmen in the German iron and steel industry managed their enterprises, dealt with their customers, and acted in their relations with state and society during a period of war, revolution, and economic crisis. Because this industry occupied a central position in...

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,...

In this book, one of Germany's most influential economists describes his country's economy, the largest in the European Union and the third largest in the world, and analyzes its weaknesses: poor GDP growth performance, high unemployment due to a malfunctioning labor market, and an unsustainable...

France ranks as the world's third largest arms exporter and supplies arms and military technology to over a hundred countries. This book exposes the compelling aims and interests--national independence, security, economic welfare, foreign influence, grandeur--that explain the nation's successes...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. The Nature of Obsessive Thinking -- 2. Understanding: A Prerequisite of Leadership -- 3. The Foreman: Master and Victim of Double Talk -- 4. Human Relations: Rare, Medium, or Well-Done -- 5. The Secret of Success -- 6. Efficiency and Cooperative Behavior...

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- Short forms of titles used in the text -- INTRODUCTION. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT UNDER A COMMUNIST SIGN -- PART ONE. POPULATION MOVEMENTS AND THE LABOR FORCE IN EAST GERMANY -- CHAPTER I. POPULATION AND THE LABOR FORCE -- CHAPTER II. EMPLOYMENT BY...