The German Chemical Industry

Author : John E. Lesch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401593779
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The German Chemical Industry in the Twentieth Century written by John E. Lesch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twentieth century, dyes, pharmaceuticals, photographic products, explosives, insecticides, fertilizers, synthetic rubber, fuels, and fibers, plastics, and other products have flowed out of the chemical industry and into the consumer economies, war machines, farms, and medical practices of industrial societies. The German chemical industry has been a major site for the development and application of the science-based technologies that gave rise to these products, and has had an important role as exemplar, stimulus, and competitor in the international chemical industry. This volume explores the German chemical industry's scientific and technological dimension, its international connections, and its development after 1945. The authors relate scientific and technological change in the industry to evolving German political and economic circumstances, including two world wars, the rise and fall of National Socialism, the post-war division of Germany, and the emergence of a global economy. This book will be of interest to historians of modern Germany, to historians of science and technology, and to business and economic historians.

Author : Luther Wilson Greene
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The German Chemical Industry written by Luther Wilson Greene and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lion Hirth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783638832397
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State, Cartels and Growth written by Lion Hirth and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Economic and Social History, grade: 1,0, University of Massachusetts - Amherst (Department of Economics), course: European Economic History, 64 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper provides an analysis of the German chemical industry during the "Second Industrial Revolution" of the late 19th and the early 20th century. It is modeled after Steven Webb's (1980) article on the iron and steel industry. Here it is argued that the exceptional growth and success of the industry - chemicals were the fastest growing industry in Germany and by 1890 German firms held 85% world market share in dyestuff production - was supported by a high degree of market con-centration and cartelization. This enabled the firms to gain large economies of scale and scope through backward integra-tion and product diversification. Dynamic efficiency gains were mainly achieved by relaxing credit constraints, reducing uncertainty, and allocate investment more efficiently. It is further argued that state action played a crucial role in setting up and stabilizing cartels. This analysis is in line with a Schumpeterian view of welfare-enhancing effects of imperfect competi-tion. While these findings obviously do not question anti-trust policy per se, they do question a mechanical view on market structure that is common in much mainstream economic thinking.

Author : Otto N. Witt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide Through the Exhibition of the German Chemical Industry [in The] Columbian Exposition in Chicago 1893 written by Otto N. Witt and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathryn Steen
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469612909
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry written by Kathryn Steen and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry: War and Politics, 1910-1930

Author : William Telfair Daugherty
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
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Download or read book German Chemical Developments in 1926 written by William Telfair Daugherty and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vereinigung chemischer fabriken Deutschlands. Comite für die Weltausstellung in Chicago, 1893
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Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide Trough [!] the Exhibition of the German Chemical Industry written by Vereinigung chemischer fabriken Deutschlands. Comite für die Weltausstellung in Chicago, 1893 and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Otto Richter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
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Download or read book The German Chemical Industry written by Otto Richter and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas A. Ruess
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
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Download or read book The German Chemical Industry written by Thomas A. Ruess and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Diarmuid Jeffreys
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1466833297
Total Pages : 705 pages
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Download or read book Hell's Cartel written by Diarmuid Jeffreys and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable rise and shameful fall of one of the twentieth century's greatest conglomerates At its peak in the 1930s, the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben was one of the most powerful corporations in the world. To this day, companies formerly part of the Farben cartel—the aspirin-maker Bayer, the graphics supplier Agfa, the plastics giant BASF—continue to play key roles in the global market. IG Farben itself, however, is remembered mostly for its infamous connections to the Nazi Party and its complicity in the atrocities of the Holocaust. After the war, Farben's leaders were tried for crimes that included mass murder and exploitation of slave labor. In Hell's Cartel, Diarmuid Jeffreys presents the first comprehensive account of IG Farben's rise and fall, tracing the enterprise from its nineteenth-century origins, when the discovery of synthetic dyes gave rise to a vibrant new industry, through the upheavals of the Great War era, and on to the company's fateful role in World War II. Drawing on extensive research and original interviews, Hell's Cartel sheds new light on the codependence of industry and the Third Reich, and offers a timely warning against the dangerous merger of politics and the pursuit of profit.