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Opting for oil

the political economy of technological change in the West German chemical industry, 1945-1961

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An edition of Opting for Oil (1994)

Opting for oil

the political economy of technological change in the West German chemical industry, 1945-1961

After Germany's defeat in 1945, West German chemical firms made the transition from traditional coal-based chemistry to modern petrochemical technology, thus ensuring their long-term competitiveness. This book investigates the causes, course, and consequences of that major change in West German chemical technology.

In seeking to explain the actual process of that transition and its broader cultural implications, the author examines the factors that led key chemical firms to pursue petrochemical production, the basis on which the chemical industrialists chose among the competing technologies, the process of technology transfer (primarily from the United States and Great Britain to Germany, but also the reverse), and the trends in German research, production, investment, and marketing after the war.

Using approaches drawn from the history of technology, business history, and political and economic history, and taking advantage of material from a broad range of public and private archives, this study argues that it is impossible to explain the technological developments in the chemical industry from the end of the war until 1961 without exploring a number of other areas, including corresponding changes in the West German and worldwide political economies during the same period, as well as German traditions regarding technological change.

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Opting for Oil: The Political Economy of Technological Change in the West German Industry, 1945-1961
2011, Cambridge University Press
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Opting for Oil: The Political Economy of Technological Change in the West German Industry, 1945-1961
2009, Cambridge University Press
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Opting for Oil: The Political Economy of Technological Change in the West German Industry, 19451961
April 20, 2006, Cambridge University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cambridge [England], New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
338.4/766/00943
Library of Congress
HD9656.G38 S77 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 259 p. :
Number of pages
259

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Open Library
OL1396501M
Internet Archive
optingforoilpoli00stok
ISBN 10
0521451248
LCCN
93003922
OCLC/WorldCat
27937467
Library Thing
9432318
Goodreads
4465567

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