Terry Gourvish is Director of the Business History Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science.

• Preface; 1. Introduction: the business-government relationship Terry Gourvish; 2. Business and government in twentieth-century Sweden: a tale of income Håken Lindgren; 3. An economic background to Berchtesgaden: business and economic policy Herbert Matis; 4. Business, politics and revolution in early twentieth-century Ireland Philip Ollerenshaw; Part I. Banking Finance: 5. Bankers and politics in Belgium in the twentieth century Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryk; 6. Central bank co-operation and Romanian stabilisation, 1926–9 Philip Cottrell; 7. Government, the banks and industry in interwar Britain Lucy Newton; Part II. Business and Politics in the National Socialist Period: 8. German business and the Nazi new order Richard Overy; 9. 'Aryanisation' in central Europe, 1933–9: a preliminary account of Germany (the 'Altreich'), Austria and the 'Sudeten' area Dieter Ziegler, Harald Wixforth and Jörg Osterloh; 10. The 'Gildmeester-Organisation for Assistance to Emigrants' and the expulsion of the Jews from Vienna, 1938–42 Peter Berger; 11. Deutsche Lufthansa and the German state, 1926–41 Peter Lyth; Part III. The Business Community and the State: 12. Government and industry in Austria in the 1930s Gertrude Enderle-Burcel; 13. Business and politics: the state and the networks in Greece Margarita Dritsas; 14. Economic efficiency and nationality: the Siemens subsidiary Elektrotechna in the first Czechoslovak republic Christoph Boyer; Alice Teichova: a bibliography.