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almafu_9958911559202883
Format:
1 online resource (595 p.)
ISBN:
3-428-53181-7
Series Statement:
Schriften zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Bd. 84
Content:
Hauptbeschreibung Since the beginning of the 1970s, democratic capitalist Western Europe as well as state-socialist Eastern Europe faced the double challenge of the third industrial revolution and the second globalization. The accelerated political, social, economic and cultural change did not lead to a crisis ""of capitalism"" or ""of communism"", instead challenging European industrial society as such. In 1989, after a long erosion process, state socialism failed at the task of solving the manifold problems of adjustment; yet a lasting solution is also not conceivable within the c
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Proceedings of a conference held at the Zentrum fur Zeithistorische Forschung in Postdam, November 2007.
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Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations; In Lieu of an Introduction: Big Structures, Large Processes and Huge Comparisons - A Frame of Interpretation; Friederike Sattler/Christoph Boyer: European Economic Elites between a New Spirit of Capitalism and the Erosion of State Socialism; I. European economic elites under current public criticism; II. The socio-economic transformations of late 20th century Europe; 1. The two macro-models of post-1945 European history; 2. The emerging crisis of the macro-models during the 1970s; a) The "West"; b) The "East"; c) Comparative perspective
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III. Economic elites and socio-economic transformation in the late 20th century1. Elite concepts; 2. European economic elites: some "long lines" of development; 3. Economic elites in the context of the two early post-war macro-models; a) The Western macro-model; b) The Eastern macro-model; c) The comparative perspective; 4. Economic elites between a new spirit of capitalism and the erosion of state socialism; a) Economic elites and the crisis of the Western macro-model; b) Economic elites and the crisis of the Eastern macro-model; c) The comparative perspective
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5. Transnational business elites?Economic Elites in the Twentieth Century: Overviews from Western and Eastern Perspectives; Dieter Ziegler: Business Elites in the Twentieth Century - Germany and its Western Neighbours; I. The overall picture: high rates of self-recruitment in the European business elite; II. The main causes of self-recruitment within different Western European countries; 1. Britain; 2. France; 3. Spain; III. The German business elite in the 20th century; 1. High stability, but long-term changes in social composition; 2. Changing educational profile
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3. Patterns of socialization within the bourgeoisie and the educated classesIV. Conclusion: New tendencies during the second half of the 20th century?; Ágnes Pogány: Hungarian Economic Elites in the Twentieth Century; I. Introduction; II. The Hungarian business elite between the two world wars; 1. Composition and recruitment; 2. Education and competence; 3. Puritanism and luxury consumption; 4. Business elite and economic anti-Semitism; III. The Hungarian economic elite after the Second World War; 1. The worker-director; a) Recruitment composition and education; 2. Cadre-managers
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a) Recruitmentb) Education; 3. Red barons; 4. The "New Entrepreneurs"; IV. Conclusion; Formations and Profiles in Western Europe: Between Cohesion and Fragmentation; Hervé Joly: Die bemerkenswerte Persistenz der staatlichen grands corps bei der Rekrutierung der Wirtschaftseliten in Frankreich; I. Die Tradition der grands corps; II. Die allgemeine Entwicklung der pantouflage im 20. Jahrhundert; 1. Die Positionen vor den Verstaatlichungen; 2. Die Diversifizierung der grands corps außerhalb der traditionellen Branchen; 3. Die Vorteile der Verstaatlichungen für die grands corps
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4. Privatisierungen ohne größere Auswirkungen für die grands corps
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-428-13181-9
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Economics
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Sociology
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