Johann Plenge and “The Ideas of 1914.”

Johann Plenge et « Les idées de 1914 »

Christian Eggers () and Alain Laurent ()
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Christian Eggers: UGA UFR LLCE LEA - Université Grenoble Alpes - UFR de Langues étrangères (LLCE et LEA) - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes
Alain Laurent: UGA UFR FEG - Université Grenoble Alpes - Faculté d'Économie de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes, CREG - Centre de recherche en économie de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes

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Abstract: As soon as 1914, Germany had to plan the provision of all available raw materials. This new reality of a planned economy had to be given a framework. A whole set of writings ensued which claimed the end of the liberal thought in the wake of the so-called "ideas of 1914". Among others, J. Plenge (1874-1963), a Professor of Economics at Munster University, fueled this line of thinking and set out his very optimistic vision of the future. The war would pave the way to a new golden age under a planned (or "organized") economy and lead Germany to socialism. How influential were actually the works of Plenge on his contemporaries? Plenge was a proponent of a third way between capitalism and socialism but he should not be considered as a forerunner of the economic organization of the nazi regime. And although Lenin was aware of his works, Plenge did not really influence the Bolshevik leader.

Keywords: German Historical School; First World War (Germany); German Economic History; Johann Plenge; Planning; Coordination and Reform in Capitalist Systems; Political Economy of Capitalist Systems; Anti-liberalism; Third Way; École historique allemande; Première Guerre mondiale (Allemagne); histoire économique allemande; Planification; coordination et réforme dans les systèmes capitalistes; économie politique des systèmes capitalistes; antilibéralisme; Troisième voie (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-12-23
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Published in Revue d'histoire de la pensée économique, 2020, Revue d’histoire de la pensée économique 2020 – 2, n° 10, 2020 – 2 (n° 10), pp.209-247. ⟨10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-11064-4.p.0209⟩

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DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-11064-4.p.0209

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