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The article discusses various presentations made at a conference on the postwar consensus and revolution in Germany in the 20th century. Topics discussed at the conference included competition among corporations, which depended on the welfare of male industrial workers; the role of corporatism and cartels that restricted competition in Germany; and development of the welfare state in Germany since the 1970s.

The article presents a commentary on several articles, also published in this issue of the journal, about socioeconomic aspects of Jewish-Christian relations in Europe in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. The author highlights the themes of Christian-Jewish competition and cooperation in the context of economic crises and famines, anti-Jewish propaganda and antisemitic stereotypes, and the role of Jews in the history of state formation in Europe. Brief, more general comments on the historiography of economic history are also offered.