As awareness of the process of globalization grows and the study of its effects becomes increasingly important to governments and businesses (as well as to a sizable opposition), the need for historical understanding also increases. Despite the importance of the topic, few attempts have been...

Wirtschaftliches Handeln findet heute zunehmend im internationalen Kontext statt und überschreitet dabei mehrfach Ländergrenzen, was sich immer deutlicher in den alltäglichen Wertschöpfungsprozessen von Unternehmen niederschlägt. Diese Internationalisierung der Wirtschaft und deren...

Although political and legal institutions are essential to any nation's economic development, the forces that have shaped these institutions are poorly understood. Drawing on rich evidence about the development of the American states from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century, this...