 Der späte Fluch des Dritten Reichs: Pfadabhängigkeiten in der Entstehung der bundesdeutschen WirtschaftsordnungPerspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2005, vol. 6, issue 2, 151-170 Abstract: Abstract: According to a popular belief, West Germany's post‐war economic system constituted a clean break with the structures of the Third Reich. The present article takes a critical look at this myth, and examines the continuity between the economic framework of the Third Reich and the Social Market Economy. In a whole array of sectors of the German economy, regulations from the Nazi period continued to be in force after the war, or were even reintroduced. To accommodate these regulations, the Anti‐Cartel Act of 1957 defined these areas as exempt from its general ban on cartels. In this sense, Germany's current reforms may be viewed as the laborious transformation of an economic system whose substance originated not in the Social Market Economy of the 1950s, but rather in the command economy of the 1930s. The findings of this article confirm that the impact of the Third Reich on the economic policies of post‐war Germany was significantly greater than hitherto known. Date: 2005 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:perwir:v:6:y:2005:i:2:p:151-170 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik is currently edited by Lars P. Feld, J¸rgen von Hagen, Bernd Rudolph and Achim Wambach More articles in Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik from Verein für Socialpolitik Contact information at EDIRC. |
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