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Enterprise in the Period of Fascism in Europe (Paperback)
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Enterprise in the Period of Fascism in Europe (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Banking and Financial History
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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.
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