Opting for Oil: The Political Economy of Technological Change in the West German Industry, 1945 1961

by Raymond G. Stokes

Book Overview

This book investigates the causes, course, and consequences of the shift in West German chemical technology from a coal to a petroleum basis between 1945 and 1961. It examines the historical underpinnings of technological culture of the German chemical industry; changing political and economic constraints on technological decision-making in the postwar period; and the actual decision-making process within five individual firms. The study's main importance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521025761
• ISBN13: 9780521025768
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"