Ein langjähriger Gestalter der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit gibt einen chronologischen Überblick über die Arbeit des BMZ und lässt zu den verschiedenen Perioden auch viele Zeitzeugen zu Wort kommen. (Siegfried Lörcher)

Introduction -- Entrepreneurship, its origins and recent experience -- Overview of the global aviation industry 1903 to 1945 -- Entrepreneurial aviators -- The earliest days in the United States : the Wright brothers, Glenn H. Curtiss, Allan Lockheed and Glenn L. Martin -- The French connection...

Introduction -- The oil industry : main features and characteristics -- Conceptual terminology -- Structure, methodology and sources -- The late-tsarist oil industry, 1861-1917 -- Late-tsarist economy overview -- Late-tsarist oil industry overview -- Role of the state -- Foreign participation --...

The Visionary Realism of German Economics forms a collection of Erik S. Reinert’s essays bringing the more realistic German economic tradition into focus as an alternative to Anglo-Saxon neoclassical mainstream economics. Together the essays form a holistic theory explaining why economic...

In this book, economist Jean-Philippe Platteau addresses the question: does Islam, the religion of Muslims, bear some responsibility for a lack of economic development in the countries in which it dominates? In his nuanced approach, Platteau challenges the widespread view that the doctrine of...