Walther Rathenau (1867–1922)

Non Fiction, Economics, World war I, Planned Economy, Post-war rationalization of German industry, Rathenau was managing director of Allgemeine Elekrizitats Gesellschaft (AEG), or German General Electric, During the World war I Rathenau gave a significant contribution to the planned German economy by organizing the raw materials department, "The new economy will... be no state or governmental economy but a private economy committed to a civic power of resolution which certainly will require state cooperation for organic consolidation to overcome inner friction and increase production and endurance". Published by S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin, 1918, First italian edition: " L’economia nuova", Laterza, Bari, 1919… (plus d'informations)