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Germany's Social Market Economy

Origins and Evolution

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Alan Peacock

    1. David Hume Institute, Edinburgh, UK
      Esmée Fairbairn Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University, UK

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  2. Hans Willgerodt

    1. Institute for Economic Policy, University of Cologne, Germany

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages iii-xxii
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  2. German Liberalism and Economic Revival

    • Hans Willgerodt, Alan Peacock
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Ordo Manifesto of 1936

    • Franz Böhm, Walter Eucken, Hans Grossmann-Doerth
    Pages 15-26

  4. What Kind of Economic and Social System?

    • Walter Eucken
    Pages 27-45

  5. Rule of Law in a Market Economy

    • Franz Böhm
    Pages 46-67

  6. Interdependence of Domestic and International Economic Systems

    • Wilhelm Röpke
    Pages 68-81

  7. The Meaning of the Social Market Economy

    • Alfred Müller-Armack
    Pages 82-86

  8. Will Communism and Capitalism Become Similar Economic Systems?

    • Egon Tuchtfeldt
    Pages 87-105

  9. Towards a More Humane Society?

    • Christian Watrin
    Pages 106-123

  10. Problems of Worker Democracies

    • K. Paul Hensel
    Pages 124-139

  11. Role of Trade Unions in a Market Economy

    • Ernst Günter Vetter
    Pages 140-151

  12. Observations on the Problem of Monopolies

    • Friedrich A. Lutz
    Pages 152-170

  13. The Welfare State at its Limit

    • Walter Hamm
    Pages 171-194

  14. The Public Sector in a Market Economy

    • Kurt Schmidt
    Pages 195-207

  15. An Employment Policy without Inflation

    • Herbert Giersch
    Pages 208-218

  16. The Functioning of the Gold Standard

    • Friedrich A. Lutz
    Pages 219-241

  17. Development Aid in a Free Market System

    • Fritz W. Meyer
    Pages 242-260

  18. Does Germany Still Have a Social Market Economy?

    • Hans Otto Lenel
    Pages 261-272

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 273-292
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The essays in this volume have been translated from the German to bring to the notice of a wider public the contemporary views of a group of prominent German economists and lawyers who have all participated in the development of post-war economic policy in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Editors and Affiliations

  • David Hume Institute, Edinburgh, UK

    Alan Peacock

  • Esmée Fairbairn Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University, UK

    Alan Peacock

  • Institute for Economic Policy, University of Cologne, Germany

    Hans Willgerodt

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