John Maynard Keynes, Socialism and Economic Policy of Nazi Germany

John Maynard Keynes, socialismus a hospodářská politika nacistického Německa

David Lipka and Dan Šťastný

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia, 2008, vol. 2008, issue 1, 108-116

Abstract: Keynes foreword to the German edition of his General Theory is one of the causes of the association between his name and a total state. This paper looks into how justified the link between Keynes's theory and the Nazi German economic policy really is. The first part introduces Keynes's ideas on economic policy and his vision of society. These are in the second part confronted with the economic policy of the Nazi Germany (and partly that of Bolshevik Russia) and common components are identified. The conclusion is that despite his explicit repudiation of socialism and dictatorship and his efforts to "save" capitalism, Keynes's concept of economic policy was similar to the economic policy of Nazi Germany and opened the way towards socialism and planning.

Keywords: Keynes; Hitler; Germany; socialism; economic policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E60 E65 P52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://aop.vse.cz/doi/10.18267/j.aop.25.html (text/html)
http://aop.vse.cz/doi/10.18267/j.aop.25.pdf (application/pdf)
free of charge

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:prg:jnlaop:v:2008:y:2008:i:1:id:25:p:108-116

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
Redakce Acta Oeconomica Pragensia, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, nám. W. Churchilla 4, 130 67 Praha 3
http://aop.vse.cz

DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.25

Access Statistics for this article

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia is currently edited by Klára Šimůnková

More articles in Acta Oeconomica Pragensia from Prague University of Economics and Business Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Stanislav Vojir ().