English description: This volume collects retrospective essays on the history of capitalism - a timely publication in view of the current crisis. The essays illuminate financial crises in the context of Balzac's Human Comedy; discuss the German version of state-regulated capitalism; underline the importance of emotions in capitalism; put into perspective the spirit of capitalism as a genuinely calvinistic characteristic; point out the changing influence of the family; compare financial crises in history; and approach the ...
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English description: This volume collects retrospective essays on the history of capitalism - a timely publication in view of the current crisis. The essays illuminate financial crises in the context of Balzac's Human Comedy; discuss the German version of state-regulated capitalism; underline the importance of emotions in capitalism; put into perspective the spirit of capitalism as a genuinely calvinistic characteristic; point out the changing influence of the family; compare financial crises in history; and approach the subject from a global historical perspective. German text. German description: In Zeiten einer aktuellen Krise des Kapitalismus sind historische Ruckblicke opportun. Wolf Lepenies beleuchtet Finanzkrisen mit Blick auf Honore de Balzacs menschliche Komodie . Der Beitrag von Hans-Ulrich Wehler diskutiert die deutsche Variante des staatlich eingehegten Kapitalismus. Ute Frevert und Hartmut Berghoff unterstreichen die Bedeutung von Emotionen im Kapitalismus, Gudrun Kramer relativiert mit Blick auf den Islam Max Webers These vom Geist des Kapitalismus als geniun calvinistische Auspragung. Gunilla Budde hebt in ihrem Beitrag den veranderten Einfluss der Familie hervor. Jurgen Kocka stellt Vergleiche von Finanzkrisen in der Geschichte an und Charles S. Maier und Marcel van der Linden nahern sich dem Thema aus globalgeschichtlicher Perspektive.
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