Unternehmen sind historisch gewachsene Bausteine der modernen Welt. Ihre Leistungskraft entscheidet über die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Ländern und den Lebensstandard ihrer Bürger. Unternehmen sind zugleich politische Akteure, die auch soziale und kulturelle Zusammenhänge stiften. Diese...

"By many measures, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) had the strongest economy in the Eastern bloc and was one of the most important industrial nations worldwide. Nonetheless, the economic history of the GDR has been primarily discussed as a failure when compared with the economic success of...

"The history of consumption has experienced remarkable growth since the 1980s, driven by the interest of scholars in a variety of historical subdisciplines and other social scientific fields. This volume seeks to bring the resultant diversity of specialized approaches into one common discourse....