"Corporate capitalism was invented in nineteenth-century Britain; most of the market institutions that we take for granted today - limited companies, shares, stock markets, accountants, financial newspapers - were Victorian creations. So were the moral codes, the behavioural assumptions, the...

"The control of competition is designed, at best, to reconcile socioeconomic stability with innovation, and at worst, to keep competitors out of the market. In this respect, the nineteenth century was no more liberal than the eighteenth century. Even during the presumed liberal nineteenth...

Rudolf Hickel: V O R W O R T: Mut zur erfolgreichen Alternative. Nach über 15 Jahren der deutschen Einigung fällt die Bilanz der politisch propagierten ökonomischen Angleichung Ostdeutschlands an die westdeutschen Produktions- und Le­bensverhältnisse enttäuschend aus. So erreichte das...