The future of the German economy : an end to the miracle?
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The future of the German economy : an end to the miracle?
（Issues in German politics）
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [130]-141) and index
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ISBN 9780719059957
Description
This text offers an interpretation of German economic performance. It covers economic policy and macroeconomic performance since the election of the Schroe der government, the "Alliance of Jobs" employment policy, German corporatism (including finance and industrial relations), the future of the corporate model in a global era and German innovation. The authors argue that while there are worrying aspects in macroeconomic performance, particularly high unemployment and net capital outflows, there are real reasons to be optimistic about Germany's future. The innovation system is dynamic, industrial policy is strong and the corporate model has intrinsic adaptability which has made it both durable and competitive through the centuries of industrialisation. Contributions come from established as well as younger commentators and the result is a treatment of an important topic that will appeal to anyone who has an interest in German politics or the German economy.
Table of Contents
- Germany in a global era
- economic reform of Modell Deutschland alliance for jobs - labour market policy and industrial relations
- after the 1998 elections
- the tale of the hare and the tortoise - globalization and the restructuring of the German model
- a pattern of light and shade for the German economy
- the end of the innovation economy?
- German corporatism - dead or alive?
- an end to the miracle?.
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: pbk ISBN 9780719060106
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Flagships of Imperialism is the first scholarly monograph on the history of the P&O shipping company, and the first history of P&O to pay due attention to the context of nineteenth century imperial politics which so significantly shaped the company's development. Based chiefly on unpublished material from the P&O archives and the National Archives, and on contemporary official publications, the book covers the crucial period from the company's origins to 1867. After presenting new findings about the company's origins in the Irish transport industry, the book charts the extension of the founders' interests from the Iberian peninsula to the Mediterranean, India, China and Australia. In so doing it deals with the development of the necessary financial infrastructure for P&O's operations; the founders' attitudes to technical advances; the shareholding base; the company's involvement in the opium trade, and with its acquisition of mail, Admiralty and other government contracts. It was the P&O's status as a government contractor which, above all else, implicated its fortunes in the wider politics of empire, as illustrated by the book's concluding account of the company's rescue from the edge of a financial precipice by the award of a new government mail contract prompted, among other things, by the Abyssinian expedition of 1867.
Flagships of Imperialism will be of interest to transport and company historians and to historians of the British empire alike, as well as to anyone interested in the history of British ships and shipping in the nineteenth century. -- .
Table of Contents
- Germany in a global era
- economic reform of Modell Deutschland alliance for jobs - labour market policy and industrial relations
- after the 1998 elections
- the tale of the hare and the tortoise - globalization and the restructuring of the German model
- a pattern of light and shade for the German economy
- the end of the innovation economy?
- German corporatism - dead or alive?
- an end to the miracle?.
by "Nielsen BookData"