In the period 1890-1914, the business elite in Germany turned their economy into the most dynamic in Europe. An older school of biographers tended to view the wealthiest businessmen as unique individu
The German abandonment of nuclear power represents one of the most successful popular revolts against technocratic thinking in modern times—the triumph of a dynamic social movement, encompassing a bro
In Cold War-era East Germany, the German tradition of science-based technology mergedwith a socialist system that made technological progress central to its ideology. Technology becamean important par
