Volkswirtschaftspolitik

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Identifikator:: 1011220512

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-20728

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Hasenack, Wilhelm http://d-nb.info/gnd/118546589

Title:: Unternehmertum und Wirtschaftslähmung

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Brückenverlag

Year of publication:: 1932

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 189 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Business and Management Classics

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Title:: II. Die Krise der kaufmännischen Moral

Collection:: Business and Management Classics

156 THE SOCIAL THEORY OF GEORG SIMMEL The best illustration of the first instance can be found in the organization of nomadic tribes and in the special formations of otherwise sedentary peoples during their actual migrations. The effect seems to be a suppression or a dissolution of internal differentiation, often accom- panied by a strong personal despotism. The patriarchal organization of the family among no- madic people finds its counterpart in a despotism of the group over the individual in times of actual migration. It resulted immediately from the fact that these migra- tions, even if not directly for war purposes, required none the less a military form of organization. But it was a mili- tary organization of a character different from the one that is found among sedentary people. The latter means a spe- cial fixed organization intersecting all existing group forma- tions, and presupposes a far-going differentiation and an advanced division of labor. A differentiation and division of labor presupposes, however, either a narrow spatial con- tact or an intensive functional contact of elements. Those conditions did not exist among primitive nomadic tribes. They consisted of dispersed families which were largely self-contained and self-sufficient and in no functional re- lations with one another. The food conditions drove them to spatial dispersion and forced them to separate. Only the need of mutual protection drove them to spatial contrac- tion and brought them together. Their actual combination during such periods of migration was therefore not based on an organic synthesis, but it took the form of a mere me- chanical aggregation of equal elements held together by a more or less personal despotism. The members of a wandering group are very dependent on one another, and this temporary but immediate common interest overshadows the existing differences which a sed- entary life would bring to full expression. A certain fun-

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