Zusammenfassung: "This volume argues that capitalism had a significant presence in Weimar and Nazi Germany but in a different guise than before World War I. Kapitalismuskritik (critique of capitalism), nationalism, and state intervention all grew in importance, as did uncertainty about the...

With the life story of Shibusawa Eiichi (1840-1931), one of the most important financiers and industrialists in modern Japanese history, as its narrative focal point, this book explores the challenges of importing modern business enterprises to Japan, where the pursuit of profit was considered...

This book presents the results of a collective and original empirical investigation of the institutional systems underlying the capitalisms that are coming to the fore in developing nations. While varieties of industrialized countries’ capitalisms are extensively scrutinized, those of...

Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Peculiarities of economic development -- 3. -- Critique of existing theories and a new beginning -- 4. Western extended economic development -- 5. Eastern condensed economic development -- 6. Corporations in economic development -- 7. A general theory of economic...

Pueblo, city, empire -- Organizing capital and controlling race and labor -- Revolution around the corner and across the border -- Like Cuba and the Philippines -- Against capital and foreigners -- Highway for the hemisphere