Contents

pp v-vi

List of figures

pp vii-vii

List of tables

pp viii-viii

List of contributors

pp ix-x

Preface

pp xi-xii

1 - Introduction: the business–government relationship

pp 1-14

Part I - The business–politics paradigm

pp 15-16

2 - Business and government in twentieth-century Sweden: a tale of income redistribution and rent-seeking?

pp 17-41

3 - An economic background to Berchtesgaden: business and economic policy in Austria in the 1930s

pp 42-62

4 - Business, politics and revolution in early twentieth-century Ireland

pp 63-86

Part II - Banking finance

pp 87-88

5 - Bankers and politics in Belgium in the twentieth century

pp 89-105

6 - Central bank co-operation and Romanian stabilisation, 1926–1929

pp 106-144

7 - Government, the banks and industry in inter-war Britain

pp 145-168

Part III - Business and politics in the National Socialist period

pp 169-170

8 - German business and the Nazi New Order

pp 171-186

9 - ‘Aryanisation’ in Central Europe, 1933–1939: a preliminary account for Germany (the ‘Altreich’), Austria and the ‘Sudeten’ area

pp 187-214

10 - The Gildemeester Organisation for Assistance to Emigrants and the expulsion of Jews from Vienna, 1938–1942

pp 215-245

11 - Deutsche Lufthansa and the German state, 1926–1941

pp 246-266

Part IV - The business community and the state

pp 267-268

12 - Government and industry in Austria in the 1930s

pp 269-288

13 - Business and politics: the state and networks in Greece

pp 289-306

14 - Economic efficiency and nationality: the Siemens subsidiary Elektrotechna in the first Czechoslovakian Republic

pp 307-324

Appendix: Alice Teichova: a select bibliography

pp 325-332

Index

pp 333-345