Belgium

Nothing on modern Belgian business in English: the Fortis collapse, one of Europe's larger 2008 bank failures, has no book. The one enduring Belgian business story is the Congo concession system, a genuine case study in extractive corporate governance, and it has two good books.

2 books

Books 2

Adam Hochschild · 1998 · The Congo Free State as a privately owned extraction business, and the campaign that ended it.
David Van Reybrouck · 2010 · Union Minière, the concession economy and what happened after independence.