- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface for the Paperback Edition
- Acknowledgements
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Prologue Neo-liberalism and the Social Market
- 1 Liberal Economics in Crisis: The Weimar Period
- 2 The Origins of Neo-liberalism: Depression and Dictatorship
- 3 Neo-liberalism and its Enemies: National Socialism and Social Democracy
- 4 The Struggle against Collectivism, 1933–1945
- 5 West Germany in Ruins: The Aftermath of Defeat
- 6 Neo-liberalism in the Immediate Post-war Period
- 7 Ludwig Erhard and the Origins of the Social Market Economy
- 8 The Social Market and the Crisis in the German Economy, 1947–1948
- 9 Theory into Practice: The Struggle over Policy, 1948
- 10 Erhard as Economics Director in Bizone
- 11 Erhard and the CDU
- 12 The SPD and the Social Market Economy
- 13 Erhard and the Korean Crisis
- 14 The SPD and the Struggle for Reform
- 15 Erhard and the Realization of the Social Market Economy
- 16 The SPD and the Triumph of Reform
- Conclusion: The Social Market Economy in Retrospect
- Bibliography
- Secondary Sources
- Index
Introduction
Introduction
- Chapter:
- (p.1) Introduction
- Source:
- Freedom with Responsibility
- Author(s):
A. J. Nicholls
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This book discusses the concept of social market economy, ‘socialism with a human face’, a form of liberalized collectivism. It cites examples from former Communist countries, specifically, the case of the social market economy in West and East Germany. It also highlights problems encountered with the introduction of free-market capitalism. The book elaborates various socio-economic theories and emphasizes that the issues of mass unemployment and working-class alienation are present even today as they were during the Great Depression. The concept of corporatism and its impact on Germany's economic society is also discussed.
Keywords: social market economy, free-market capitalism, mass unemployment, working-class alienation, corporatism, Germany
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface for the Paperback Edition
- Acknowledgements
- List of Tables
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Prologue Neo-liberalism and the Social Market
- 1 Liberal Economics in Crisis: The Weimar Period
- 2 The Origins of Neo-liberalism: Depression and Dictatorship
- 3 Neo-liberalism and its Enemies: National Socialism and Social Democracy
- 4 The Struggle against Collectivism, 1933–1945
- 5 West Germany in Ruins: The Aftermath of Defeat
- 6 Neo-liberalism in the Immediate Post-war Period
- 7 Ludwig Erhard and the Origins of the Social Market Economy
- 8 The Social Market and the Crisis in the German Economy, 1947–1948
- 9 Theory into Practice: The Struggle over Policy, 1948
- 10 Erhard as Economics Director in Bizone
- 11 Erhard and the CDU
- 12 The SPD and the Social Market Economy
- 13 Erhard and the Korean Crisis
- 14 The SPD and the Struggle for Reform
- 15 Erhard and the Realization of the Social Market Economy
- 16 The SPD and the Triumph of Reform
- Conclusion: The Social Market Economy in Retrospect
- Bibliography
- Secondary Sources
- Index
