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'Prices play an important role in market societies. The article illustrates the development of prices in Switzerland form the beginning of the 19th to the end of the 20th century. Important sources of price statistics as well as institutional and economic causes of the long term development of prices are discussed.' (author's abstract)

Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: An Evolution in the Rules of Thought -- PART ONE FREUD TO WITTGENSTEIN The Sense of a Beginning -- 1 Disturbing the Peace -- 2 Half-way House -- 3 Darwin's Heart of Darkness -- 4 Les Demoiselles de Modernisme -- 5 The Pragmatic Mind of America -- 6 E = mc2, ⊃ / ≡ / v + C7H38O43 -- 7 Ladders of Blood -- 8 Volcano -- 9 Counter-Attack -- PART TWO SPENGLER TO ANIMAL FARM Civilisations and Their Discontents -- 10 Eclipse -- 11 The Acquisitive Wasteland -- 12 Babbitt's Middletown -- 13 Heroes' Twilight -- 14 The Evolution of Evolution -- 15 The Golden Age of Physics -- 16 Civilisations and Their Discontents -- 17 Inquisition -- 18 Cold Comfort -- 19 Hitler's Gift -- 20 Colossus -- 21 No Way Back -- 22 Light in August -- PART THREE SARTRE TO THE SEA OF TRANQUILITY The New Human Condition and The Great Society -- 23 Paris in the Year Zero -- 24 Daughters and Lovers -- 25 The New Human Condition -- 26 Cracks in the Canon -- 27 Forces of Nature -- 28 Mind Minus Metaphysics -- 29 Manhattan Transfer -- 30 Equality, Freedom, and Justice in the Great Society -- 31 La Longue Durée -- 32 Heaven and Earth -- PART FOUR THE COUNTER-CULTURE TO KOSOVO The View from Nowhere, The View from Everywhere -- 33 A New Sensibility -- 34 Genetic Safari -- 35 The French Collection -- 36 Doing Well, and Doing Good -- 37 The Wages of Repression -- 38 Local Knowledge -- 39 'The Best Idea, Ever' -- 40 The Empire Writes Back -- 41 Culture Wars -- 42 Deep Order -- Conclusion: The Positive Hour -- Notes and References -- Index of Names, People and Places -- Index of Ideas and Subjects -- About the Author -- Praise for the Modern Mind -- Copyright -- About the Publisher.

German economic history in the industrial age has classically formed an important basis for the study of economic growth and industrialisation more generally. This book aims to introduce English-language readers to modern German economic history based on a selection of work by one of Germany's leading economic and business historians, Werner Plumpe, who places particular emphasis on the institutional structure of the economy. Plumpe's work demonstrates that the country's economic evolution can only be understood by paying close attention to institutional peculiarities, such as the shape of industrial relations and the dynamics of corporate decision-making. It also emphasises the importance of the interconnectedness of capital and labour in the German coordinated market economy and draws attention to individual events and decisions that may have driven long-term economic development, but are rarely considered in approaches that deal primarily with macroeconomic growth. German Economic and Business History in the 19th and 20th Century shows that Germany's economic history still warrants the application of an institutional view of economic transformation that is slightly different from the more formal perspectives dominant in the UK and the US. The book serves as a practical demonstration of a historicist approach to economic history introduced by the German Historical School a century ago, which still inspires large parts of German economic historiography.

Though twentieth century historians have often considered military historians a variable to be reckoned with, the study of weapons and armies has nevertheless been seen as an "asset" to those who research political, social and cultural phenomena. After all, the scholars who work in this field end up studying, collecting, and most importantly, providing data. However, those who study armed conflicts from a broad perspective (which is, in fact, of a political, social or cultural nature) have often viewed military issues as a somewhat closed or concrete sphere; while the field leads to useful interpretations, these have always been seen as either subordinate in some way, since they are limited to or projected in the framework of a specific context, or decisive, yet isolated factors which disregard underlying, widely-accepted trends. However, there seem to be more and more convincing reasons for rethinking the position of military history among the methodological approaches used to study, understand and interpret twentieth century history.