Industrial Germany

By Levy, Hermann

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Title:	Industrial Germany
Author:	Levy, Hermann
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
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Citation APA MLA Chicago Levy, B. H. (n.d.). Industrial Germany. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Excerpt
PREFACE: When in January and February 1934 I was lecturing in the University of Cambridge about industrial combination in Germany I became impressed with the idea of dealing more fully with what is at present one of the foremost English industrial problems. As I was one of the first to write on English monopoly organisations and have some knowledge of the special features of the problem in England I felt myself qualified to write a book with the express purpose of comparing the German and English conditions of quasi-monopoly. Whether I have succeeded in doing this the reader must decide. It may seem audacious to choose so comprehensive a title as Industrial Germany for a book which mainly describes and analyses certain aspects of industrial organisation. But in fact the problem of industrial combination is so intimately connected with the most prominent economic, organisational, administrative, legal, technical, financial and even sociological conditions of German industry that I am anxious to show by the title that the aim of the book is to draw a picture of cartels, concerns and trusts against a background of the general structural development of German industry.

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTETNS Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Part I. Views and Figures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Chapter I. A Comparison of the German and English Attitude Towards Industrial Combination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Chapter II. A Statistical Review of Cartelisation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Part II. Industrial Combination in Groups of Industry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Chapter III. Mining. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Chapter IV. The Iron and Steel Industry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Chapter V. The Chemical and Allied Industries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Chapter VI. Electrical Engineering and Electricity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Chapter VII. German Industrial Combination in the International Sphere. . . . . . 85 Chapter VIII. Some Conclusions Regarding All Groups of Industry. . . . . . . . . 105 Part III. The Organisation of Industrial Combination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Chapter IX. The Legal Aspect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Chapter X. The Forms of Industrial Combination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Part IV. Effects of Industrial Combination. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Chapter XI. Co-ordinating Competition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Chapter XII. Diminishing Costs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Chapter XIII. Fixing Prices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Some Results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 A List of Cartels, Concerns and Trusts Discussed or Mentioned. . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234