This paper relates the political decision-process which allowed Germany to transform its planned economic system into a Social Market Economy after the Second WorldWar. The central problem of the paper is to understand how the Social MarketEconomy emerged in Germany. Was it primarily an imported...

This paper presents the collapse of the global automobile industry in 2008 in relation to the numerous porosities that exist between this industry and the financial sphere: 1/ the short term financing pattern of carmakers? working capital, of the network and even loans to individuals; 2/ the...