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Erinnerungen eines politischen Meteorologen
1994
by
Somary
Banking
Economic Crisis
Alexis de Tocqueville
Communism
Nationalism
French Revolution
Adolf Hitler
Imperialism
Inflation
Liberalism
Geopolitics
Austrian School
Political Economy
Bureaucracy
Insurance
Marxism
Social Democracy
Totalitarianism
Carl Menger
Eugen von Philippovich
Labor Theory of Value
Marginal Utility
Socialism
Business Cycles
Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk
Friedrich von Wieser
Joseph Schumpeter
Ludwig von Mises
Otto Bauer
Rudolf Hilferding
Joseph Stalin
Capitalism
Adolf Wagner
Gustav Schmoller
Protectionism
Max Weber
Social Policy
Sozialpolitik
Trade Unions
Karl Marx
Monopoly
Unemployment
Capital Movements
Georg Friedrich Knapp
Gold Standard
Monetary Theory
Price Theory
War Economy
Otto von Bismarck
Gold Reserves
Reichsbank
Monetary Stability
Exchange Control
Hjalmar Schacht
Price Controls
Property Rights
Public Finance
Raw Materials
World War I
Bank of England
Business Cycle Theory
Central Banking
Discount Rate
Federal Reserve
Knut Wicksell
Cartels
Labor Law
Trade Policy
Russian Revolution
Planned Economy
Hoarding
Agriculture
Free Trade
Friedrich List
International Trade
John Law
John Maynard Keynes
Laissez-faire
Devaluation
Balance of Payments
Werner Sombart
Emil Lederer
Great Depression
Reparations
Customs Union
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
Public Health
Statism
Anschluss
Lionel Robbins
New Deal
Economic Policy
Benito Mussolini
Montesquieu
Exchange Rates
International Monetary Fund
Bretton Woods
Cold War
European Union
Keynesian Economics
Nationalization
Classical Economics
International Liquidity
Marshall Plan
Adam Smith
Taxation
Democracy
Economic Development
Liquidity
Money Market
Self-Determination
Capital Flight
Irving Fisher
David Ricardo
John Stuart Mill
Lujo Brentano
Rule of Law
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Friedrich Nietzsche
Positivism
Sovereignty
Monetary Policy
Table of Contents · 142 segments
1
Front Matter and Table of Contents
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2
Wolfgang Somary's Foreword to the Memoirs
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3
Preface: A Political Meteorologist's Self-Justification
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4
Childhood and Youth in Vienna
chapter
5
Storm Years at the University of Vienna, 1899–1904
chapter
6
University Freedom and Habsburg Containment of National Conflict
chapter
7
Christian Socials, Social Democracy, and Austrian Social Conflict
chapter
8
Dynastic Order, Political Violence, and Vienna as a Laboratory of Modern Ideologies
chapter
9
Early Economic Work, Karl Menger, and the Beginnings of Sociological Study
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10
Philippovich, the Vienna School, and the Problem of Economic Crisis
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11
Schumpeter, Otto Bauer, Socialism, Nationality, and the Fate of Austrian Talent
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12
Against Proletarian Dictatorship and for Broad Political Contact
chapter
13
Family Loss, Russo-Japanese War, and Somary’s First Political Forecast
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14
Protectionism, Berlin, Russian Finance, and Schlieffen’s War Thinking
chapter
15
The Mannheim Verein für Sozialpolitik Debate on Union Compulsion
chapter
16
From Social Liberalism to the Anglo-Austrian Bank
chapter
17
Karl Morawitz and the First Russian Loan Memorandum
chapter
18
London Mission over the Russian Loan and the Missed Anti-Russian Alliance
chapter
19
Industrial Finance, Paris Capital Markets, and Credit Discipline
chapter
20
Freud, Psychoanalysis, and the Limits of Monomania
chapter
21
Agrarian Reform, Monopoly, and Labor Capacity
theoretical
22
Opening of the Bosnian Crisis: Ottoman Weakness and Balkan Nationalism
chapter
23
Young Turks, Balkan Nationalism, and the Prelude to the Sandschak Railway
chapter
24
The Sandschak Railway
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25
The Bosnian Annexation of 1908 and the Meeting of Edward VII and Franz Joseph
chapter
26
At Ernest Cassel's Riederfurka Retreat
chapter
27
The Decision to Leave Vienna
chapter
28
The Crisis in Theoretical Economics, 1909
theoretical
29
Departure from Vienna, 1909
chapter
30
Farewell from Vienna, 1909
chapter
31
Plan for Détente between England and Germany, Berlin 1910–1914
chapter
32
Implementation of the Naval Program, 1911–1912
chapter
33
Acquisition of the Orient Railways by Austria-Hungary, 1913
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34
Chinese Currency Reform Proposal and the Loans of 1913–1914
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35
Could the First World War Have Been Avoided?
chapter
36
Failed Anglo-German Mediation after Sarajevo and the Road to War
chapter
37
The First World War Begins and Somary Accepts the Belgian Mission
chapter
38
Berlin War Fever, Reichsbank Planning, and the Brussels Currency Crisis
chapter
39
Antwerp Capitulation and Inspection of the Belgian National Bank
chapter
40
Design and Founding of the Provisional Belgian Note Bank
chapter
41
Belgian Legal Approval, Francqui, and French Caricatures
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42
The Antwerp Contribution Dispute and Somary’s Threat to Resign
chapter
43
War Economy Meeting at the Imperial Office of the Interior, 15 November 1914
chapter
44
Aftermath of the Marne Intervention and the Taboo of Defeat
chapter
45
Conclusion of Somary’s Belgian Mission, 1914–1915
chapter
46
My Book Bankpolitik, Berlin 1915
theoretical
47
Interruption of Banking Activity During the War
chapter
48
The Working Committee for Mitteleuropa, 1916
chapter
49
Central Europe Working Committee: Program, Organization, and Seeckt
chapter
50
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare: The 1916 Crisis and Memoranda
chapter
51
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare: 1917 Decision, Collapse of Opposition, and Financial Warnings
chapter
52
The Day with Ludendorff in Kreuznach, 1917
chapter
53
Ludendorff, Brest-Litovsk, Bolshevism, and the Exhaustion of Europe
chapter
54
Czech Legion, Pilsen, Baron Skoda, and the Opening of the Bucharest Peace Treaty Chapter
chapter
55
The Bucharest Peace Treaty and Count Tisza, Spring 1918
chapter
56
Max Weber and Schumpeter in Vienna
chapter
57
Austrian Mission to Bern and Vienna, November 1918–January 1919
chapter
58
The Beginning of Banking Activity in Switzerland, 1919
chapter
59
The Banking House Blankart & Cie. in Zurich, 1919–1926
chapter
60
Postwar Banking Structure, Austrian Obligations, and Swiss Industrial Holdings
chapter
61
Bankruptcy or Currency Collapse, 1919–1924
chapter
62
Rapallo and the German Timber Credit, 1922
chapter
63
From 1922 to 1929: Zurich, Hyperinflation Lessons, and German Credit
chapter
64
Heat Lightning of the Crisis: The Fight for Free Trade, 1924–1927
chapter
65
Pre-Years of the Crisis, 1926–1929: Short-Term Foreign Credit and Vienna
chapter
66
Ending the Rothschild-Blankart Arrangement Amid Crisis Warnings
chapter
67
Bleichröder, Mendelsohn, and Vienna’s Misread Crisis Signals
chapter
68
Public Warnings in Cologne and Zurich, 1927-1928
chapter
69
Heidelberg Lectures on Liberalism, Socialism, and Economic Order
theoretical
70
Young Plan, Emergency German Finance, and the New York Crash
chapter
71
My Marriage to May Demblin de Ville
chapter
72
The Political Consequences of the Crisis: London Lecture
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73
Peak of the Crisis and the Predicted Turn in Mid-1932
chapter
74
New York Depression, Kreuger Collapse, and the Forecast of a Crisis Turning Point
chapter
75
The Lausanne Conference and Papen’s Anti-Soviet War Proposal
chapter
76
Naturalizing as Swiss Citizens
chapter
77
Hitler’s Rise, the Letter to Schacht, the Leipzig Speech, and the London World Conference
chapter
78
The Saarbrücken Lecture and the Artificial Saar Question
chapter
79
Austria, Nazi Terror, Mitropa, and the Collapse of German Cultural Integrity
chapter
80
Swiss Devaluation, Monetary Morality, and Carter Glass on American Inflation
chapter
81
The Intellectual Preparation for the Second World War: Zweig, Norman Davis, and Thucydides
chapter
82
French Anxiety over German Resurgence in Ascain
chapter
83
Zurich Lecture, Swiss Defense, and the First Conversation with Obrecht
chapter
84
Obrecht, War Inevitability, and Decentralized Swiss Household Reserves
chapter
85
Raw Materials, the Failed Glenn Martin Aircraft Plan, and Bureaucratic Sabotage
chapter
86
The Anschluss as Precursor to the Second World War
chapter
87
Pontigny, Munich, and the Collapse of Czechoslovakia
chapter
88
North American Journey and Reflections on American Society before War
chapter
89
Options versus Fixed Purchases after Prague
chapter
90
Washington Mission and the Swiss War Options Contracts
chapter
91
Summer 1939 Family Arrangements in Chambésy
chapter
92
Geneva, Schacht, and the Imminence of War
chapter
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The Second World War and the Renewed Washington Mission
chapter
94
Swiss Banking Anxiety and Arthur Reitler’s Retirement
chapter
95
Sumner Welles, France’s Collapse, and Swiss Financial Defense
chapter
96
Prediction of the Allied Coalition and Family Exile in America
chapter
97
IG-Chemie, Swiss Asset Freezing, and Wartime Payments
chapter
98
War Experiences in Washington: Advisory Work and American Administration
chapter
99
American Wartime Administration and the Absence of War Aims
chapter
100
The War with Japan and the Origins of Pearl Harbor
chapter
101
Days at Sugar Hill: Chief Justice Stone and the Peace Question
chapter
102
The Quebec Conference, September 1944
chapter
103
The Struggle over the Mikado, 1945
chapter
104
Currency Questions before the Landings in North Africa and Normandy
chapter
105
Bretton Woods, Swiss Caution, and the Limits of Postwar Monetary Institutions
chapter
106
The Political and Social Transformation of America during the War Years
chapter
107
American Society, Education, Public Relations, and Strategic Misjudgments in World War II
chapter
108
Journey to Switzerland in 1945 and Encounters with the French Resistance
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The Transition Years to 1947–48: Switzerland, Potsdam, Disarmament, and Franco-German Prospects
chapter
110
Paris Conversations, Return to Washington, and a Transatlantic Family Life
chapter
111
Washington after Roosevelt and the Accidental Presidency of Truman
chapter
112
The Ideological Weakness of the West and a Conversation with Schumpeter
chapter
113
Swiss Neutrality, German Assets, and American Reparations Pressure
chapter
114
The Marshall Plan, Dollar Shortage, and the Case for Free Trade
chapter
115
Renner’s Letters, Czechoslovakia, and the American Turn in 1947
chapter
116
The Death of May
chapter
117
Korea, the Yalu Defeat, and America’s Asian Misjudgments
chapter
118
The Crisis of Democracy and a Warning to America
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119
America’s Public Opinion, Prestige, and Democratic Weakness
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120
Why Do You Still Remain Active in Life?
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121
Appendix: Warning to Germany Before the First World War
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122
Appendix: Memorandum on the Future of Poland
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123
Continuation of the Polish Settlement Plan: Objections and Answers
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124
Warning to Germany against Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
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125
Financial and Strategic Risks of American Entry and Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
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126
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare and American Intervention (Continuation)
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127
Warning to Germany against Unlimited Inflation and Its Consequences
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128
Warning of the Coming World Crisis
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129
Warning to England about Hitler and the Second World War
essay
130
Warning to America about the Impending Conflict with Russia
essay
131
Warning to America about the Dangers of Its World Position
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132
Warning to America about the Coming New Crisis
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133
Are Crises a Thing of the Past?
essay
134
Introduction to Economics
theoretical
135
Germany Between the Two World Powers
essay
136
The Social Laws of Inverse Proportion
chapter
137
The Twenty Social Laws: Power, Responsibility, Rights, State Control, and Mass Resistance
theoretical
138
Civilization, Freedom, Legal Complexity, Transport, Information, and Compassion
theoretical
139
Tyranny, Fanaticism, State Finance, Money, and the Concentration of Wealth and Power
theoretical
140
Effect of the Social Laws: Popular Sovereignty and the Danger of World Tyranny
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141
Future Prospects of Democracies
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142
Bibliography of Felix Somary's Publications
bibliography