"Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the economy before colonization. Rönnbäck reconstructs the living standards of the population at a time when the Atlantic slave trade brought money and men into the are…
"Deep within the American Dream lies the belief that hard work and steady saving will ensure a comfortable retirement and a better life for one's children. But in a nation experiencing unprecedented prosperity, even for many families who seem to be doing everything right, this i…
"Deep within the American Dream lies the belief that hard work and steady saving will ensure a comfortable retirement and a better life for one's children. But in a nation experiencing unprecedented prosperity, even for many families who seem to be doing everything right, this i…
Ecosystem changes, time scales.
Cover; Titel; Impressum; Inhalt; "Kanonen statt Butter"; I. Terror und Verheißung; Moralischer Zusammenbruch; Die Unternehmer und Hitler; Keine Zeit für "Blut und Boden"; II. Wege aus der Not; Lebensstandard und Wirtschaftswunder; Aufrüstung; Autarkie und Großwirtschaftsraum; II…
"The 7 December 1941 attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor by Japan was a gamble. Japan was already entangled in a longstanding, probably unwinnable war in China which since its outbreak in mid-1937 had cost 185,000 Japanese dead and billions of yen. Pearl Harbor opened a …