Papers by Sebastian Teupe
Grenzforschung, 2021
Moderne Märkte sind ohne ‚Grenzen' nicht vorstellbar. Sie definieren sich über räumliche und zeit... more Moderne Märkte sind ohne ‚Grenzen' nicht vorstellbar. Sie definieren sich über räumliche und zeitliche Verortungen, anhand einer Vielzahl von Abgrenzungen. Wir zeigen zunächst neun Typen von Marktgrenzen auf. Danach diskutieren wir wirtschaftshistorische Forschung, die sich wirtschaftswissenschaftlich-quantitativer Methoden bedient und es so ermöglicht, die Grenzen von Märkten anhand sogenannter border effects messbar zu machen. Solche Messergebnisse sollten jedoch durch historisch-wirtschaftssoziologische Forschung zu der sozialen Konstruktion von Marktgrenzen und wechselnden Wettbewerbsdefinitionen erweitert werden. Aus der Kombination quantitativer und qualitativer wirtschaftshistorischer Forschung ergibt sich Konvergenzpotenzial zwischen den Border Studies und den Wirtschaftswissenschaften.
Studien zur Geschichte des Wirtschaftsstrafrechts, 2018
Financial History Review, 2020
Recent contributions on ‘financial repression’ and ‘money illusion’ have referred to Maynard Keyn... more Recent contributions on ‘financial repression’ and ‘money illusion’ have referred to Maynard Keynes's How to Pay for the War as a supporting document. This article discusses whether Keynes prescribed policies of ‘financial repression’ that were implemented in the United Kingdom, and other countries, following World War II. It seems reasonable that Keynes's writings were instrumental in translating British monetary experiences of the 1920s and 1930s into expectations of policymakers during and after World War II, including a belief in ‘money illusion’ that suggested the use of inflation for driving down real interest rates of public bonds. If this was the case, How to Pay for the War could indeed provide an important explanation for the why and when of ‘financial repression’. This article argues that How to Pay for the War only partly provided support for a policy of ‘financial repression’, and none for using inflation as a ‘tax gatherer’ to the detriment of domestic savers i...
Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte, 2021
The relationship between business strategies and legal institutions is important for understandin... more The relationship between business strategies and legal institutions is important for understanding the historical dynamics of modern capitalism. While legal history and economic history have remained distinct disciplines, a growing number of studies now populates a vibrant «borderland» between the two. Building on frameworks of legal history, organization studies, and «new entrepreneurial history», our contribution systematizes the relation of entrepreneurship and the law from a historical perspective of change. This paper explains how an analysis of this specific relation contributes to our understanding of economic change and addresses the question of synthesis and interdisciplinary connectivity by offering a conceptual triad that focuses on the problems of agency and change at the intersection of businesses and the law. This paper argues that economic actors have used, sought, and avoided laws to transform their legal and economic environments. Each of these interactions combined...
Labor History, 2020
ABSTRACT Negotiations over wages have always been a central part of industrial relations in capit... more ABSTRACT Negotiations over wages have always been a central part of industrial relations in capitalist economies. The unstable value of money in the 19th and 20th centuries has made these negotiations both crucial and complex. Linking contemporary understandings of monetary values to wage bargaining provides an important historical background for a better understanding of real wage developments and the agency of workers. Adopting a comparative perspective, this paper discusses how managers and workers dealt with changing monetary values in Germany and the United States from the 1870s to the immediate aftermath of the First World War. The paper also discusses the extent to which actors understood the instability of their respective currencies’ purchasing power and whether their perceptions changed over time. The paper reveals that negotiations were never exclusively shaped and guided by concepts such as inflation or the ‘cost of living’ in both countries but that the importance of the concepts changed with the level of price fluctuations and institutional setting. Indices could achieve a dominant role only in exceptional circumstances due to their artificial and contestable nature, their neglect of the complexity of workers’ job contexts and living environments, and their normative implications concerning wage demands.
Management & Organizational History, 2019
Management & Organizational History, 2019
Enterprise & Society, 2016
Why did premiums like turkeys, bottles of whiskey, or travel vouchers play an important role in t... more Why did premiums like turkeys, bottles of whiskey, or travel vouchers play an important role in the United States but not in West Germany? Looking for an answer, this article takes a detailed look at how television sets were traded along the distribution chain in both countries. The use of material incentives was an important competitive strategy of U.S. manufacturers and distributors during the 1950s. At the same time, it held price competitive behavior in check. Premiums were at the center of a “turkey economy” that paid tribute to the demands of traditional radio and television stores. In West Germany, the same objective was achieved by a “television cartel.” The article reconstructs the reasons for emergence and decline of the two systems and provides a detailed account of historical change highlighting the importance of retailing structures, the life cycle of products, and the time-specific culture of markets.
Zeitschrift für Unternehmensgeschichte, 2014
Marketization is a broad term with a wide range of meanings. It encompasses measures of deregulat... more Marketization is a broad term with a wide range of meanings. It encompasses measures of deregulation and privatization as well as the perceived increase of an ›economic‹ logic in social relationships. For historical purposes, the term should not be narrowly defined, and nor should the concept of marketization be used in an ahistorical manner detached from contemporary usage. However, there are two questions which the historical analysis of marketization needs to address. First, what is the conceptual understanding of the market mechanism to which the term marketization is linked? Second, what is the relationship between marketization and economic theory?
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