Industrial Constructions

TRAMA

Herrigel challenges the Chandlerian, Gerschenkronian, and Schumpetarian approaches to Germany's economic history.

NOTE EDITORE

This book is about the way in which industrial production in Germany is conditioned by social and political factors. Herrigel emphasizes regional, organizational, and policy dimensions of the development of German industry from the seventeenth century to the present. The argument is distinctive because it pays so much attention to small and medium-sized firms, and because it suggests that Germany does not have a single coherent national system of industrial governance. This social constructivist point of view presents a direct challenge to the Gerschenkronian, Schumpetarian, and Chandlerian approaches to Germany's economic history.

SOMMARIO

1. Introduction: problems with the German model; 2. Blending in: decentralized industrialization in Germany; 3. Repositioning organized capitalism into regions: autarkic industrial order in Germany; 4. The national context: 1871–1945; 5. Return to regions: the development of the decentralized industrial order since 1945; 6. Autarkic industrial order: 1945–1994; 7. The national context: 1945–1994; Notes; List of interviewees; Bibliography; Appendix: Maps.

PREFAZIONE

This book examines how industrial production in Germany was conditioned by social, political, and regional factors from the seventeenth century to the present. The argument focuses on small and medium sized firms, and suggests that Germany does not have a single coherent national system of industrial governance.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780521778596
• Collana: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
• Dimensioni: 229 x 28 x 152 mm Ø 720 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: 5 maps 14 tables
• Pagine Arabe: 496