Part 1 Views and figures: a comparison of the German and English attitude towards industrial combination; a statistical review of cartelisation. Part 2 Industrial combination in groups of industry: mining; the iron and steel industry; the chemical and allied industries; electrical engineering and electricity; German industrial combination in the international sphere; some conclusions regarding all groups of industry. Part 3 the organisation of industrial combination: the legal aspect; the forms of industrial combination. Part 4 Effects of industrial combination: co-ordinating competition; diminishing costs; fixing prices; some results.