Textbook Representations of the Economy of East and West Germany at the Time of the Golden Age

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-131
Author(s):  
Kai Krüger
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Planned Economy ◽  
Economic Miracle ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Market

This article examines the presentation of West Germany’s “economic miracle” and East Germany’s planned economy in school textbooks published between 2014 and 2016. The textbooks tell a success story of the “social market economy” that hardly takes into account the academic research of the last forty years. The results furthermore show that contemporary sources were altered in the process of textbook production in order that they adhere to the German success story. These findings, however, do not only point to conscious ideology production and a lack of knowledge, but also suggest that competition among publishers is an explanatory factor. Multiperspectival and controversial presentations of the economy occur only sporadically. It is therefore questionable to what extent the textbooks benefit historical learning.

The history of the concept of social market economy in Germany

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Nevskiy ◽  
Aleksandr Hudokormov ◽  
Mihail Pokidchenko ◽  
Irina Chaplygina ◽  
Al'fred Shyuller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Market ◽  
Freiburg School

The monograph traces the history of the development of German neoliberal economic thought from the origins of the Freiburg School in the 1930s to the first results of the practical implementation of the concept of a social market economy in West Germany in the late 1940s-early 1960s. The author demonstrates the broad historical context of the development of German ideas about the theory and practice of the policy of order (Ordnungstheorie und Ordnungspolitik), shows the features of the formation and spread of the scientific and intellectual economic tradition in Germany, as well as beyond its borders, starting with the birth of the German historical school and the perception of its heritage by Russian socio-economic thought in the second half of the XIX — early XX century and ending with the practical implementation of the concept of order of the Freiburg school and the correlation of its ideological and spiritual and moral foundations with the social teaching of Catholicism and liberalism of Friedrich von Hayek. Special attention is paid to some controversial issues of the formation of the theory of ordoliberalism during the period of national socialism and the problems of the social market economy in modern Germany. The book is intended to fill the shortage of specialized scientific literature on relevant issues and to acquaint the Russian reader, primarily students, teachers and researchers, with the variety of ideological and scientific-theoretical foundations of the socio-economic system of the post-war Germany.

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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