Christian Economics?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noah Benezra Strote
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
Party Affiliation ◽  
Christian Democratic Union ◽  
The Social ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Christian Social Union ◽  
Social Market

This chapter explores how German elites molded a bare majority to support a “Christian” policy to respond to the dire economic situation still facing the country, under the leadership of the first post-Nazi chancellor, Konrad Adenauer. The first advocates of the “social market economy” argued that the policies underpinning it reflected “our Christian way of thinking”: principles ultimately rooted in Christian scripture. Their party affiliation was either the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) or the Christian Social Union (CSU), whose leaderships ran their campaigns in conjunction with each other and together formed a bloc (CDU/CSU) in national legislative bodies. The last time German politicians had attempted to forge an interconfessional “Christian” economic policy, Protestant liberals and Catholics had infamously failed in their charge. Twenty years later, however, the attempts met with more success.

scholarly journals Economic policy supporting social well-being. Remarks on the margin of Ludwig Erhard’s book “Prosperity for All”

2020 ◽  
pp. 27-37
Author(s):  
Marcin Łuszczyk
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
World War ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Market ◽  
Original Concept

The purpose of the article is to present the achievements of Ludwig Erhard in the field of economic policy and his vision of social well-being. Immediately after World War II, Erhard was the main author of Germany’s economic policy. Based on the principles of ordoliberalism, the social market economy became the source of economic success. Under the Constitution, also in Poland the social market economy forms the basis of the economic system. However, it turns out that the actions taken differ significantly from Erhard’s original concept, and sometimes even close to the model of the socialist economic order. The state’s interference in market processes is growing, ad hoc decisions are more and more often made, calculated more to improve the current situation than to ensure lasting prosperity.

scholarly journals Ordolieral Roots of Ecological Market Economy

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-129
Author(s):  
Martin Dahl
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ecological Development ◽  
Western Germany ◽  
Social Market

AbstractWestern Germany introduced the model of a Social Market Economy after World War II. This model has become an example of socio-economic reforms for many European countries. In the initial phase of the development of the new socio-economic policy concept, the postulate of "prosperity for all" was especially appealing as it considers economic policy and social policy as a whole. In subsequent years of development, particularly at the end of the twentieth century, the model of a Social Market Economy has become a source of foundation for creating new concepts and ideas that would include more aspects of responsible and sustainable development combined with proper care for resources and the natural environment. In the view of this, the aim of this paper is to attempt to answer the question of to what extent the Social Market Economy model can lay the foundation for sustainable, responsible and ecological development. In order to be able to answer such a research question, the author based his reasoning and analyses on the theory of ordoliberalism and the following research methods: factual analysis, comparative analysis and analysis of selected publications. The main findings of the research are that the concept of Social Market Economy contains numerous elements that can foster the implementation of the sustainable, responsible and ecological development of countries and societies.

Ordoliberalism, the Social-Market Economy, and Keynesianism in Germany, 1945–1974

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harald Hagemann
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
German Economy ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
West German Economy ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Market

The chapter deals with the development of the welfare state in the first three decades after World War II, in which the West German economy ran through a remarkable catching-up process. Economic policy in the new Federal Republic of Germany in that period was decisively shaped and influenced by the ordoliberal ideas of Walter Eucken and the Freiburg school and the principles of the social-market economy. Whereas Keynesianism of the Hicks-Samuelson neoclassical synthesis had already evolved into the dominant view in the academic sphere during the 1950s, it took until the 1966–67 recession for Keynesianism to find a late (and short) entry into German economic policy with the entry of the Social Democrats into government and their charismatic minister of economics, Karl Schiller.

scholarly journals Civil Economy in the Social Market Economy: a Theoretical Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
Flavio Felice
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Civil Economy ◽  
State And Market ◽  
Social Market

Abstract What do we mean by “civil” and “civil society”? This paper attempts to describe a complex notion of “civil economy” in Sturzo’s theoretical perspective of the social market economy. According to this political theory, “civil” is not opposed to “market,” which is not opposed to “the political” (the state). Rather, instead of being the transmission belt between the state and market, civil is the galaxy in which we find also the market and the state (but not only), each with its own functions. This tradition – rooted in Christianity – was able to oppose both Nazi and communist totalitarianism, while many Catholics made an impossible attempt to exhume corporatism.

The Social Market Economy — Present and Future

1993 ◽  
pp. 616-621
Author(s):  
Rolf H. Funck ◽  
Harry Böttcher ◽  
Jan S. Kowalski
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Market
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