Archive for November 4th, 2024

How big businesses helped in rise of the Nazi empire

November 4, 2024

Karsten Heinz Schönbach in this new INET paper points how the big businesses, in this case coal imdustry of Germnay facilitated rise of Hitler:

Ever since the publication of Henry Turner’s German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler, most historians in both Germany and the United States have dismissed the idea that support from German major industry played a key role in bringing Hitler to power. This consensus is wrong, as I have shown in a series of works that began with my doctoral dissertation at the Free University of Berlin and now extends to more than ten different works, including two books. These works rely extensively on archival resources that were either inaccessible or only selectively open to earlier researchers.

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The missing master-economists

November 4, 2024

In 1924, John Maynard Keynes wrote an obituary essay for his teacher Alfred Marshall.
What does the essay mean 100 years later?
My piece in Financial Express today.

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