In June 1862 Otto von Bismarck, then 47 years old and not yet minister-president of Prussia, decided to visit London. He had been the Prussian ambassador to St Petersburg since 1859 and for nearly a decade before that served as Prussia's ambassador to the German Confederation. His reputation...
When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves. —Preston Manning 3 When you get a lot of mo...
“I guarantee it won’t float very long. It will sink to the bottom of the ocean.” Poultry bones from Chile appear to show that Polynesians introduced chickens to South America prior to the arrival of Columbus, though some scientists have disputed these findings. Meanwhile, other researchers...
At some crucial points, scholars and states people did look abroad. English law influenced the shape of the workers’ compensation statutes; key phrases were lifted almost verbatim from the English act. The English act, in turn owed something to legislation adopted earlier in Bismarck’s Germany....
Exploring the extended family of Mediterranean welfare states, or: Did Beveridge and Bismarck take a Mediterranean cruise together? In, M. Ajzenstadt, J. Gal (Eds.), Children, gender and families in Mediterranean welfare states (pp 77-101). Dordrecht: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-90-481-8842-...