Across thirteen case studies, this volume investigates the 1970s/80s "deregulatory moment" from a variety of historical perspectives, including transnational, comparative, pan-European, and national approaches.

List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Contesting Deregulation - The 1970s as a Turning Point in Western History? Introductory Remarks Knud Andresen and Stefan Muller PART I: CONTINUITIES, OR: THE LONG SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY Chapter 1. The Global Spread of Export Processing Zones, and the 1970s as a Decade of Consolidation Patrick Neveling Chapter 2. Continuity and Change in Germany's Social Market Economy: A Matter of Economic Style? Alexander Ebner Chapter 3. Pioneers of Capitalism. The Reshaping of the East German Planned Economy and the Managers of the Treuhandanstalt between State, Market and Society (1990-1994) Marcus Boeick Chapter 4. Against the Deregulatory Tide: Privacy Protection Legislation in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1970s and 1980s Larry Frohman Chapter 5. Changes in Business Organization: Integration in the American Workplace in the Early 1970s Enrico Beltramini PART II: CONCEPTUAL TRANSITION IN (STATE) REGULATION FROM THE 1970S TO THE 1980S Chapter 6. Helmut Schmidt, the 'Renewal' of European Social Democracy, and the Roots of Neoliberal Globalization Giovanni Bernardini Chapter 7. The Changing Corporate Tax Order of the European Community Hanna Lierse Chapter 8. The European Community and the Rise of a New Educational Order (1976-1986) Simone Paoli Chapter 9. Project-based Learning from the Late 1960s to the Early 1980s: A Case Study from Lansing and Bremen Anna Wellner PART III: REGULATORY TRANSITIONS IN ENTERPRISE PRACTICES Chapter 10. Technological Advance, Transatlantic Trade, External Equilibrium. American Financial Assistance to the Italian Nuclear Power Programmes from the 1960s through the First Oil Crisis Simone Selva Chapter 11. Capital Hits the Road: Regulating Multinational Corporations during the Long 1970s Francesco Petrini Chapter 12. Marketization of the Enterprise: The Influence of Consultancy in the German Fibre Industry after the Boom Christian Marx Chapter 13. From Mutual Society to Public Corporation: The Case of the Halifax Building Society Matthew Hollow Index