The exceptional commercial success of many Southeast Asians of Chinese origin has generated much contemporary debate about the cultural or social basis of that success. This book shows that those questions have long roots in Indonesia. Dutch colonial officials in the nineteenth century expressed...

"In Knowledge, Patents, Power, Marius Buning tells the complex story of how the emergence of a Dutch patent regime is related to wider issues concerning governmental control and innovation. Buning analyses the institutional framework in which "innovative knowledge" could develop in the Dutch...

This book is an edited collection by leading insurance historians, examining the historical role of reinsurance (the insurance of insurers) in the insurance markets of eight countries: USA, Netherlands, Sweden, France, Spain, Italy, Mexico and Japan. All the contributors are experts in their...

Neubauten werden immer teurer. Das liegt nicht nur an den allgemeinen Material- und Arbeitskosten. Wesentlich relevanter sind die gestiegenen qualitativen und energetischen Anforderungen an den Wohnungsbau. Um bezahlbaren Wohnraum zu schaffen, bedarf es auch eines Umdenkens hinsichtlich der...