Economics

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Bankruptcy and Debt Collection in Liberal Capitalism

Switzerland, 1800–1900

Debt as a social relation at the intersection of history and anthropology in the precarious economies of nineteenth-century liberalism

Work and Play

The Production and Consumption of Toys in Germany, 1870-1914

Explores the history of the German toy industry and the role of toys and play in the evolution of a bourgeois German lifestyle

Light from the Ashes

Social Science Careers of Young Holocaust Refugees and Survivors

Child survivors of the Holocaust and World War II share their life experiences—and how they became social scientists

Finance Capitalism Unveiled

Banks and the German Political Economy

Explores the influence of global integration on the structure of national banking and financial systems using Germany as a case study

Origins of a Spontaneous Revolution

East Germany, 1989

Explains the extraordinary collapse of Communist East Germany