Volume 60 (2015), Edition 2

This article retraces the controversies that followed the arrival of 400 US multinational enterprises in Switzerland around 1960. If US firms were present all over Europe, many chose Switzerland to locate regional headquarters and special «base...

In between euphoria of action, faiture and impotence euvironment, state and people’s economy in the GDR The environmental history of the GDR is characterized by a strong discrepancy: While the East German state in the 80s was in an ecological...

Negotiating the Ozone Layer. The Role of the German Chemical Industry in the discussion on the CFC-ban, 1974 to 1991 Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) was produced and widely used by the chemical industry until the Montreal Protocol on Substances that...

Utility companies and environmental politics: Clean air as financial and legitimate question. This article focuses on the environmental politics of utility companies in the 1970s and 80s, analyzing their stance and actions on upcoming environmental...

In the 1850s the economy of Lombardy was characterized by extensive networks of personal relations, credit by trust and family businesses and had no use for Gerschenkronian substitution nor modern corporations. Wealth was maximized by maintaining...