All Posts Tagged With: "Social Market Economy"
Some Constructive Heresies of Wilhelm Röpke
Wilhelm Röpke was a pro-market liberal who helped found the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947 along with F. A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Leonard Read. But he has some significant differences with Anglo-American classical liberals that are worth exploring. Born in Schwarmstedt in northern Germany in 1899, Röpke came from a family of Lutheran [...]
22Dec2010 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 2 comments | ContinuedThe German Economic Miracle and the “Social Market Economy”
Richard Ebeling is the president of FEE. This summer marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the post-World War II German “economic miracle.” When the war ended in Europe in 1945, Germany was in a shambles. Its major cities had been destroyed either from Allied bombing or urban combat. Millions of its citizens had [...]
1Apr2008 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedEurope: Still a Laggard Economy
There have been increasing signs of optimism from European economy watchers. After some years in the doldrums, with slow growth and rising unemployment, things appear to be looking up: labor markets are more efficient; growth was good for 2006; and the euro is doing well against the dollar after years of weakness following its inception [...]
1Mar2007 | Norman Barry | 0 comments | ContinuedGermany: From the Market to Socialism and Back?
Germany is still the third biggest economy in the world, but like the second (Japan) it is suffering from rising unemployment (approaching four million or 10 percent of the workforce), massive capital flight, a growth rate approaching zero, workers who were once a legend for productivity but who are now over-educated and reluctant to do a full day’s labor without consulting a rule book of “rights” (a law restricting shopping on Saturday afternoon has only just been repealed), and enormous present and future welfare obligations.
1May2003 | mnolan | 0 comments | ContinuedGermany and the Third Way
Norman Barry is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom. He is the author of Business Ethics (Macmillan, 1998). At least two things exercise political and economic commentators on Europe: the meaning and policy significance of the “third way” and the current malaise in the German economy. [...]
1Nov1999 | Norman Barry | 0 comments | Continued-
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