Germany After Capitalism
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Germany After Capitalism
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Author : Ralph T. Niemeyer
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2012-01-26
Germany After Capitalism written by Ralph T. Niemeyer and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-26 with Political Science categories.
In 1989 hard core Stalinists overnight became the best ever imaginable capitalists who managed to privatise the entire economy in Eastern Europe. Nowadays, we observe how the Masters of the Universe suddenly become anti-globalisation activists raising the question whether we shall trust the populist approach by George Soros and Warren Buffett one more time or whether we should become suspicious as their sudden reasoning may be a way for them to try to avoid imprisonment? The difference between Socialism and Capitalism is that 23 years ago the Socialists accepted to be dictated the conditions of their surrender while today the capitalistic elite dictates their rescuers their conditions. An economic model that forces the real economy, our manufacturing industries, to produce only for profit and not for the actual demand leads to the production of an incredible amount of trash that implies wanton destruction of natural resources and climatic calamity. The present economic system is evidently anti-economical as it destroys economic capacity with all the negative consequences for the vast majority of citizens on this planet as well as nature. Time is ripe for a new economic system that will reverse these negative effects and that in contrast to the collapsing neo-classical model is mathematically coherent and economically sound while it is based on inclusion and proper management of resources.
Reshaping Capitalism In Weimar And Nazi Germany
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Author : Moritz Föllmer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-03
Reshaping Capitalism In Weimar And Nazi Germany written by Moritz Föllmer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-03 with Business & Economics categories.
Presents fresh approaches to the history of capitalism in the context of Weimar and Nazi Germany.
Imbalance
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Author : Tobias Schulze-Cleven
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-03-30
Imbalance written by Tobias Schulze-Cleven and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-30 with Political Science categories.
Germany is a central case for research on comparative political economy, which has inspired theorizing on national differences and historical trajectories. This book assesses Germany’s political economy after the end of the "social democratic" 20th century to rethink its dominant properties and create new opportunities for using the country as a powerful lens into the evolution of democratic capitalism. Documenting large-scale changes and new tensions in the welfare state, company strategies, interest intermediation, and macroeconomic governance, the volume makes the case for analysing contemporary Germany through the politics of imbalance rather than the long-standing paradigm of institutional stability. This conceptual reorientation around inequalities and disparities provides much-needed traction for clarifying the causal dynamics that govern ongoing processes of institutional recomposition. Delving into the politics of imbalance, the volume explicates the systemic properties of capitalism, multivalent policy feedback, and the organizational foundations of creative adjustment as key vantage points for understanding new forms of distributional conflict within and beyond Germany. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of German Politics.
How Socialist East Germany S Elite Turned Capitalist
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Author : Gerhard Schnehen
language : en
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Release Date : 2021-05-01
How Socialist East Germany S Elite Turned Capitalist written by Gerhard Schnehen and has been published by Algora Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-01 with History categories.
When East and West Germany re-united, the world was amazed — but this great moment should have been foreseen. East Germany, the GDR, was not transformed by a counterrevolution from the outside; the leadership was always capitalist at heart. The author shows how they were undermining the socialist foundations even in the 1950s, as soon as Stalin died. Gerhard Schnehen leads us through the historic events that led to the formation of the German Democratic Republic, GDR. He documents what others have left out of the story, explaining the underlying causes why the supposedly 'Communist' part of Germany collapsed in 1989, to be completely integrated into the capitalist Federal Republic of Germany. The reunited and imperialist Germany today is the dominant force in the European Union and the main ally of US imperialism, globalism and neoliberalism. With the rise to power of the Khrushchev clique, the GDR also changed colors. Guided by Khrushchev and his group, they introduced economic reforms leading to the restoration of a type of capitalism in the country where the profit principle was reinstated as the main regulator of social production. This in turn caused numerous and chronic crises in the country which in the West were then happily attributed to socialism or communism as a whole, inviting attacks on 'a system that cannot work.' However, such commentators completely ignore and do not want to discuss the fact that GDR’s 'socialism' was brought down very early, in the early sixties, by leading officials of the ruling party themselves, who introduced a whole series of capitalist 'reforms' in order to 'modernize socialism' and to make it 'more effective' (as the Ulbricht reformers put it). These so-called reforms are analyzed here at length, illustrating how they did away with socialist principles and restored capitalist principles into the economy in a way that made the country prone to the chronic crises typical of capitalism. This then led to a substantial part of the dissatisfied population turning away from socialism, the 'socialist' state and the SED ruling party, and looking toward West Germany for a better lifestyle. In late 1989, the GDR imploded and within months it was swallowed up by West German banks and corporations.
Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot
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Author : Beate Völker
language : en
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Release Date : 1995
Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot written by Beate Völker and has been published by Purdue University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Political Science categories.
'Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot ...?' This traditional Scottish farewell song seems to depict the social situation of East German citizens after the political upheaval in the Autumn of 1989. This study focuses on the question whether seemingly private decisions, such as with whom to interact, are influenced by institutional contexts. Citizens of the former GDR have been confronted with three different institutional environments during the last six years: communism, capitalism, and the transition from one system to the other. It is argued that every institutional context leads to specific personal experiences and problems. Since personal networks are a means of solving these problems, people create different patterns of personal relationships and networks according to the institutional environment. What did 'socialist' personal networks look like and how and why did they change after the transition? An effort was made to formulate theoretical arguments, which were tested using data collected on three different points in time before and after the transition. The discussion results in arguments on the extent to which Marxism created social openness and especially social cohesion, a promise of a Marxist utopia.
Imbalance
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Author : Tobias Schulze-Cleven
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2023-09-25
Imbalance written by Tobias Schulze-Cleven and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-25 with categories.
This book assesses Germany's political economy after the end of the "social democratic" 20th century to rethink its dominant properties and create new opportunities for using the country as a powerful lens into the evolution of democratic capitalism.
Freedom With Responsibility
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Author : Anthony James Nicholls
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2000
Freedom With Responsibility written by Anthony James Nicholls and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Germany categories.
This book goes behind the success story of the Federal Republic of Germany since the Second World War to examine the principles underpinning the so-called "economic miracle." A.J. Nicholls examines the intellectual origins and history of the concept of the Social Market Economy, and its implementation in the difficult years of post-war devastation and recovery in West Germany. He traces the struggle of liberal economists to assert their ideas in the unfavorable circumstances from 1933 to 1948, when they triumphed with Erhard's implementation of a policy of liberalization following currency reform. The book analyzes the extent to which West Germany's economic success was due to Erhard's policies, and assesses his attempts to attain the goals of the social market up to 1963, when he became Federal Chancellor. Nicholls's study makes an important contribution to our understanding of the historical dynamics of the German economy and the political culture of the Federal Republic.
Re Forming Capitalism
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Author : Wolfgang Streeck
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-03-04
Re Forming Capitalism written by Wolfgang Streeck and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-04 with Business & Economics categories.
Wolfgang Streeck has written extensively on comparative political economy and institutional theory. In this book he addresses some of the key issues in this field: the role of history in institutional analysis, the dynamics of slow institutional change, the limitations of rational design and economic-functionalist explanations of institutional stability, and the recurrent difficulties of restraining the effects of capitalism on social order. In the classification of the 'Varieties of Capitalism' school, Germany has always been taken as the chief exemplar of a 'European', coordinated market economy. Streeck explores to what extent Germany actually conforms to this description. His argument is supported by original empirical research on wage-setting and wage structure, the organization of business and labor in business associations and trade unions, social policy, public finance, and corporate governance. From this evidence, Bringing Capitalism Back In traces the current liberalization of the postwar economy of democratic capitalism by means of an historically-grounded approach to institutional change. This is an important book in comparative political economy and key reading across the social sciences for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Political Economy, Sociology, comparative business systems.
Business Leaders And New Varieties Of Capitalism In Post Communist Europe
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Author : Katharina Bluhm
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-23
Business Leaders And New Varieties Of Capitalism In Post Communist Europe written by Katharina Bluhm and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-23 with Social Science categories.
Business leaders exert extraordinary influence on institution building in market economies but they think and act within institutional settings. This book combines both an elite approach with a varieties-of-capitalism approach. Comparing Poland, Hungary and East and West Germany, we perceive the transformations in East Central Europe and in Germany after 1989 as being intertwined. Based on a joint survey, this book seeks to measure the level of the convergence of ideas among European business leaders, assuming it to be more extensive than the institutional convergence expected under the dominance of neoliberal discourse. Analyzing the institutional framework, organizational features like size, ownership and labour relations, and subjective characteristics like age, social origin, career patterns and attitudes of the recent business elites, we found significant differences between countries and the types of organization. The growing importance of economic degrees and internationalization shows astonishingly little explanatory power on the views of business leaders. The idea of a coordinated market economy is still relatively widespread among Germans, while their Hungarian and Polish counterparts are more likely to display a minimalist view of corporate responsibility to society and adverse attitudes towards employee representation. However, their attitudes frequently tend to be inconsistent, which mirrors the mixed type of capitalism in East Central Europe.
Between State Capitalism And Globalisation
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Author : Gareth Dale
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Release Date : 2004
Between State Capitalism And Globalisation written by Gareth Dale and has been published by Peter Lang Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Business & Economics categories.
This book is an exploration of the economic history of the German Democratic Republic, with an emphasis upon its confrontation by and contribution towards economic and military competition on the world stage. Beginning with an analysis of the Soviet bloc as a state-capitalist formation, the GDR's economic history is charted, with detailed examinations of the challenges to Soviet-style autarky that were posed by the globalising world market, as well as of GDR policymakers' attempts to use Western imports and credits as a 'whip' to spur growth. The book's central section consists of an exploration of the ambivalent attitudes of East German policymakers and industrialists towards their West German counterparts in the 1980s, as the whip was transformed into an ever-tightening noose of debt. Here, a prodigious range of secondary sources as well as hitherto unpublished documents from the archives of the old regime are drawn upon to document the means by which relative economic decline and dependency upon Western institutions came to constrain the options available to the East German nomenklatura. Finally, this study analyses the political economy of the 1989 revolution and unification and of post-unification Eastern Germany.