Crime and (No) Punishment: Business Corporations and Dictatorships
Description
This introductory essay contextualizes this project by placing it in dialogue with other studies on the relationship between big business and authoritarian regimes. Focusing on studies that illuminate the connection between firms and the Nazi regime in Germany and the various occupied territories of Europe, the evolution of this relationship, and its post-war consequences, the chapter highlights some concepts and methods that are useful for the analysis of this relationship in Latin America and other places of the world. The chapter discusses theoretical issues that have emerged from studies of the German case and their implications for other historical and current studies. To point to the gaps that this volume fills, the chapter also includes a historiographical analysis of the scholarly production of works on dictatorships and big business in Latin America.