The Social Market Economy: Theory and Ethics of the Economic Order

by Peter Koslowski (Editor)

Overview

The social market economy forms a fundamental theory of the market economy and an integrated economic and ethical theory of the economic order in which the political and societal conditions for the working of the market are included in the theory of the market economy. The social market economy is presented as a universal theory of the decisions to be made about the economic order in all cultures and is analysed in its basic theoretical foundations and in its application to the transition process from the planned to the market economy, particulary in the privatisation of socialised property in Russia and former East Germany. Leading German and Russian experts in the field as well as four classical texts present a systematic analysis of the social market economy from the point of view of economics, law, and ethics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642721311
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	12/10/2011
Series:	Ethical Economy
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

The Social Market Economy and the Varieties of Capitalism Introduction.- A Social Market Economy Contemporary Analysis and Theory.- Section I The Theory of the Economic Order.- 1 The Social Market Economy: The Main Ideas and Their Influence on Economic Policy.- Discussion Summary.- 2 The Idea of Economic Order in Contemporary Russia.- 3 Has the Market Economy Still a Chance? On the Lack of a Disciplining Challenge.- 4 The Chances for Economic Order in Post-Soviet Russia.- 5 The Social Market Economy: Social Equilibration of Capitalism and Consideration of the Totality of the Economic Order Notes on Alfred Müller-Armack.- Discussion Summary.- Section II The Ethics of the Econimic Order.- 6 The Ethics of Business in Russia.- 7 One’s Own, Proper. What is Property in its Essence?.- Section III The Repersonalisation of Socialized Property.- 8 Privatisation in the New Lands of the Former German Democratic Republic.- Discussion Summary.- 9 Reprivatisation and Economic Transformation in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union.- Section IV The Privatisation of the Agricultural Sector.- 10 Independent Family Farms Versus Hierarchical Forms of Organisation Spontaneous Emergence of Property Rights Structures in Russian Agriculture.- 11 Russian Law and Land Privatisation.- Section V The Economic Order in Private and in Public Law.- 12 Law and Economic Order in the Structures of Russian Everyday Life.- 13 A Symbiosis with Reserve: Social Market Economy and Legal Order in Germany.- Discussion Summary.- B Social Market Economy. Four Basic Texts.- Section I The Theory of Economic Order.- 14 The Principles of the Social Market Economy (1965).- Section II The Ethics of the Econimic Order.- 15 The Ethical Content of the Social Market Economy (1988).- Section III Attempts to Form aBroader Basis for the Ownership of the Means of Production in the Social Market Ecnomy.- 16 The Formation of Private Property in the Hands of Workers (1956).- Section IV The Theory of Competition.- 17 The Role of Competition in a Liberal Society (1979).- A Message of Greeting.- A Message of Greeting A Message of Greeting from the Mayor of the City of Saint Petersburg.- List of Authors and Discussants.- Index of Names.