Chemnitz and the Persistence of Machine Building
For generations, Chemnitz has carried the epithet "cradle of German machine building." The title is more than city marketing: starting in the 1840s, within a few decades, the densest concentration…
The Future That Repeats Itself
In 1983, when his book The World After Oil: The Shifting Axis of Power and Wealth was published (later translated into German as Das Ende unserer Zukunft), Bruce Nussbaum was…
BDI’s Position Paper: The Same Old Tune for Forty Years
The BDI has presented a position paper, "Principles of Economic and Trade Policy," meant to rally 38 member associations and roughly 100,000 companies behind it. Its real analytical value, however,…