The Dynamics of German Industry : : Germany's Path toward the New Economy and the American Challenge / / Werner Abelshauser.

• VerfasserIn: Abelshauser, Werner,
• MitwirkendeR: Rüsen, Jörn,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2005]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Making Sense of History ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)

Over the past decade, the "German Model" of industrial organization has been the subject of vigorous debate among social scientists and historians, especially in comparison to the American one. Is a "Rhenish capitalism" still viable at the beginning of the 21st century and does i...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Introduction
• I. A LIVING PAST
• 1. Beyond “The End of History”
• 2. The Splendor and Misery of Rhine Capitalism
• II. THE GERMAN EMPIRE— HOTHOUSE OF POSTINDUSTRIAL INSTITUTIONS
• 1. From Liberalism to the Coordinated Production Regime
• 2. Patterns of Socialization Compared: The Economies of Germany and Great Britain
• 3. Interest Intermediation between Societal and State Corporatism
• III.THE GERMAN PRODUCTION REGIME
• 1. The Production Regime of the Coordinated Market Economy
• 2. The American Challenge
• 3. Codetermination: The German Response to the Agency Problem
• 4. Social Market Economy Production-Related Design of the Organization and Rules of the Economy
• IV. THE GERMAN ROAD TO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
• 1. Many Roads Lead to Rome
• 2. Anachronisms of the “Economic Miracle”
• 3. Strengths and Weaknesses of the German Production Regime
• Postscript
• Select Bibliography
• Subject Index