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By Alan T. Peacock, Hans Willgerodt

ISBN-10: 0312031327

ISBN-13: 9780312031329

ISBN-10: 1349201480

ISBN-13: 9781349201488

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This quantity is a suite of ten essays during which the authors determine the contribution of the German Ordo-liberals fifty years after the founders of the liberal stream in Germany said their goals and ambitions. The Ordo-liberals have been a gaggle of liberal financial and criminal thinkers within the Federal Republic of Germany who got here into prominence due to their impression on, and participation in, post-war financial coverage within the Federal Republic while Ludwig Erhard used to be Minister for monetary Affairs and, later, Chancellor. They turned referred to as Ordo-liberals as a result of their dedication to designing the fitting fiscal and criminal process. The essays during this quantity contemplate not just the philosophy of the Ordo-liberals and their thought of the social industry economic system, yet also are excited by the contribution of the Ordo-liberals to more effective difficulties. The function of the general public region, the keep watch over of mergers and monopolies and the matter of sound funds are one of the issues thought of, in addition to the perspectives of the Ordo-liberals at the overseas order. a number of the authors of those essays are popular across the world they usually symbolize a variety of modern liberal suggestion. The ebook may be warmly welcomed by way of scholars and students attracted to monetary philosophy and where of liberalism in modern concept. The essays during this quantity were translated from the German so that it will carry to the awareness of a much broader public the perspectives of a gaggle of German liberal monetary and criminal thinkers. This team of economists and attorneys got here into prominence because of their impact on, and participation in, post-war financial coverage within the Federal Republic of Germany whilst Ludwig Erhard used to be Minister for fiscal Affairs and, later, Chancellor. Seventeen essays were chosen to precise the strategies of the crowd who, due to their dedication ot designing definitely the right fiscal and criminal order method, turned often called Ordo-liberals. The essays take care of quite a lot of modern difficulties, resembling the keep watch over of monopolies, the matter of the welfare kingdom and the necessity for self-help, the function of the exchange unions in commercial societies, in addition to with the extra philosophical query of even if capitalist and communist structures are relocating nearer jointly of their method of monetary difficulties to such an volume that they are going to finally converge. This ebook can be of curiosity to all people who are desirous about modern difficulties either at functional and philosophical levels.

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In doing so, such people will misjudge or at least disregard the overall interrelated structure of the economic process in the short and the long term. A very similiar position, at least from the point of view of Ordo-liberal economic principles, is occupied by those who would like to make decisions about the use of economic instruments for certain political aims or about the choice of economic policy aims as if this whole interrelated structure did not exist. Frequently, however, they do not make clear that they disregard this structure.

Some measure of price fixing and regulation of supplies still existed in some important markets. Nevertheless, post-war reconstruction from 1948 onwards was deemed to be a success. This may be true, but it does not alter the problematical character of mixed economies. In the case of the West German economy it could be claimed that because of the mixed nature of the economic system the national product in those early years was smaller than it might have been under a different system. ) In a mixed economy in which the market economy elements are predominant, too great a reliance on measures and elements which do not conform to the system, may change it completely.

In market economies aims are, in principle, pursued and, to a greater or lesser degree achieved, not by those authorities responsible for economic Evolution of the Social Market Economy 23 policy, but by individual economic entities in interaction with each other. This process of interaction can admittedly be influenced by the shaping of the rules and other economic policy measures, but in the exertion of this influence the particular character of the economic system must be taken into account.

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