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The war of words : a glossary of globalization
A timely call for recovering the true meanings of the nineteenth-century terms that are hobbling current political debates. Nationalism, conservatism, liberalism, socialism, and capitalism are among the most fiercely debated ideas in contemporary politics. Since these concepts hark back to the nineteenth century, much of their nuanced meaning has been lost, and the words are most often used as epithets that short-circuit productive discussion. In this insightful book, Harold James uncovers the origins of these concepts and examines how the problematic definition and meaning of each term has become an obstacle to respectful communication. Noting that similar linguistic misunderstandings accompany such newer ideas as geopolitics, neoliberalism, technocracy, and globalism, James argues that a rich historical knowledge of the vocabulary surrounding globalization, politics, and economics – particularly the meaning and the usefulness that drove the original conceptions of the terms – is needed to negotiate the gaps between different understandings and make fruitful political debate once again possible.
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The creation and destruction of value : the globalization cycle
Harold James examines the vulnerability & fragility of the processes of globalization & applies the lessons from past breakdowns in the process to show how financial crises provoke a backlash against global integration.
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The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews
The Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest financial institution, played an important role in the expropriation of Jewish-owned enterprises during the Nazi dictatorship, both in the existing territories of Germany, and in the area seized by the German army during World War II. In this 2001 book Harold James uses new and previously unavailable materials, many from the bank's own archives, to examine policies which led to the eventual genocide of European Jews. How far did the realization of the vicious and destructive Nazi ideology depend on the acquiescence, the complicity, and the cupidity of existing economic institutions, and individuals? In response to the traditional view that business co-operation with the Nazi regime was motivated by profit, this book closely examines the behaviour of the bank and its individuals to suggest other motivations. No comparable study exists of a single company's involvement in the economic persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany.
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Krupp
The history of Krupp is the history of modern Germany. No company symbolized the best and worst of that history more than the famous steel and arms maker. In this book, Harold James tells the story of the Krupp family and its industrial empire between the early nineteenth century and the present, and analyzes its transition from a family business to one owned by a nonprofit foundation.
Krupp founded a small steel mill in 1811, which established the basis for one of the largest and most important companies in the world by the end of the century. Famously loyal to its highly paid workers, it rejected an exclusive focus on profit, but the company also played a central role in the armament of Nazi Germany and the firm's head was convicted as a war criminal at Nuremberg. Yet after the war Krupp managed to rebuild itself and become a symbol of Germany once again--this time open, economically successful, and socially responsible.
Books on Krupp tend to either denounce it as a diabolical enterprise or celebrate its technical ingenuity. In contrast, James presents a balanced account, showing that the owners felt ambivalent about the company's military connection even while becoming more and more entangled in Germany's aggressive politics during the imperial era and the Third Reich.
By placing the story of Krupp and its owners in a wide context, James also provides new insights into the political, social, and economic history of modern Germany.
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Making the European monetary union : the role of the Committee of Central Bank Governors and the origins of the European Central Bank
Europe's financial crisis cannot be blamed on the Euro, Harold James contends in this probing exploration of the whys, whens, whos, and what-ifs of European monetary union. The current crisis goes deeper, to a series of problems that were debated but not resolved at the time of the Euro's invention.
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The creation and destruction of value : the globalization cycle
Harold James examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization, both historically and in the present. This book applies lessons from past breakdowns of globalization—above all in the Great Depression—to show how financial crises provoke backlashes against global integration: against the mobility of capital or goods, but also against flows of migration. By a parallel examination of the financial panics of 1929 and 1931 as well as that of 2008, he shows how banking and monetary collapses suddenly and radically alter the rules of engagement for every other type of economic activity.
Increased calls for state action in countercyclical fiscal policy bring demands for trade protection. In the open economy of the twenty-first century, such calls are only viable in very large states—probably only in the United States and China. By contrast, in smaller countries demand trickles out of the national container, creating jobs in other countries. The international community is thus paralyzed, and international institutions are challenged by conflicts of interest. The book shows the looming psychological and material consequences of an interconnected world for people and the institutions they create.
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Europe contested : from the kaiser to Brexit
\"Europe Contested analyses the failures and achievements of an astonishing era of economic advance and political chaos, from the First World War up to the present day. This new edition has been thoroughly updated throughout, demonstrating also how an era of crisis is challenging Europe and its values. Supported by boxed case studies, illustrations, chronologies and an annotated bibliography, and focusing on the Europe as a whole, it is the perfect introduction for students of Modern European History\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enterprise in the Period of Fascism in Europe
The essays in this volume consider the involvement of business corporations and of individual businessmen in the politics of the 1930s and 1940s: in the move away from the market and also from democracy, towards state control and authoritarianism, including the massive intervention of the state in property rights. How far did businesses attempt to guide this intervention for their own purposes, and to what extent did they succeed? This debate deals, centrally, with the role of German business, of banks, of industrial corporations, and of small tradesmen in the Nazi regime. An older discussion of how they may have facilitated the Nazi takeover has been supplemented here by an investigation into how they made the regime’s policies possible, and the extent to which the profit motive drove them to participate - with sometimes more, sometimes less enthusiasm - in the politics of inhumanity. Such discussion has been given further impetus by legal action, initially in the United States, in the form of class action suits on behalf of the victims of Nazism. What do such legal and political debates mean for business history? What are the current responsibilities of business facing the consequences of historical action? And what lessons should be learned concerning the ethics of business behaviour? The contributions to this volume were originally presented as papers at a conference organised by the Society for European Business History in Paris in November 1998.
Contents: Introduction; The economic origins and dimensions of European Fascism, Gerald D. Feldman; Banks and the era of totalitarianism: banking in Nazi Germany, Harold James; Industry under the swastika, Peter Hayes; Comment, Christopher Kopper; Spanish entrepreneurs in the era of Fascism: from the Primo de Rivera dictatorship to the Franco dictatorship (1923-1945), Mercedes Cabrera and Fernando del Rey; The Fascist regime and big business: the Fiat and Montecatini cases, Franco Amatori; Entrepreneurs and the Fascist regime in Italy: from the honeymoon to the divorce, Luciano Segreto; Comment, Pablo Martin Aceña; Enterprises in Switzerland during World War II, Jean-François Bergier; Business as usual? The Danish economy and business during the German occupation, Per H. Hansen; Comment, Jakob Tanner; Business in the Grossraumwirtschaft: Eastern Europe 1938-1945, Richard J. Overy; Polish and Jewish entrepreneurs during the German Occupation in Poland 1939-1945, Zbigniew Landau; Comment, Boris Barth; The Belgian business elite, economic exploitation and National Socialist corporatism, Dirk Luyten;The Dutch economy during the German occupation 1940-1945, Hein A. M. Klemann; French enterprises under German Occupation 1940-1944, Patrick Fridenson; Index.
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