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Ads by Google      Anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, anti-capitalism In the social market economy the market itself is subject to a high degree of institutional interference — through works councils, corporate supervisory boards in which shareholders and trade unions share power, labour legislation that protects employees in most legal disputes, and market rules that are far more restrictive than in most modern economies. The word social is not a qualifying adjective in the sense of a market economy with a high degree of social protection and high taxes. The 1970s were the heyday of Germany’s social market economy, the economic equivalent of having your cake and eating it. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1406304/posts   (2731 words)      Why a Degree Program in Global Political Economy? The forces which have shaped the nation state and the global economy have been very corrosive of civil society and social solidarity has been undermined at an alarming and accelerated rate. We are at a dramatic social moment when powerful economic interests, organized at the global level, are seeking to break the fetters of nation state regulation of economic activity and move us into a global capitalist market structure. On the one hand, the history of the changing political economy itself is dealt with as a central theme in global historical development from the emergence of capitalism to the present. http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/gpe/whyGPE.html   (2731 words)      RedState.org "In the end, the consequences for the U.S. economy of doing nothing [about Social Security] could be severe. No one claims that it is. But we are in quite the strong position overall and the White House would do well--both for the economy and for the sake of its own political fortunes--to advertise that fact. It is nice to see that President Bush is touting the strength of the economy but for whatever reason, the White House appears to have been rather shy in the recent past in engaging in a campaign to spread the news that the economy actually is in strong shape. http://economy.redstate.org   (2731 words)      Anglo-Saxon economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The expression became associated with an economic idea as it is used regularly in Europe, often to exemplify the economically "liberal" and socially "conservative" approach of the English-speaking societies of the UK and the US, in contrast to Europe's continental economy. There is still a question amongst Anglo-saxons as to whether or not there really is such a thing as an "anglo-saxon" economy. In addition, Anglo-Saxon economies generally are more 'liberal' and free-market oriented than other capitalist economies in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_economy   (580 words)      International Political Economy Economists often assume away state interests while political scientists sometimes look fail to look beyond the nation-state; both miss the dynamic interaction of state and market that characterizes political economy. International Political Economy (IPE) is the rapidly developing social science field of study that attempts to understand international and global problems using an eclectic interdisciplinary array of analytical tools and theoretical perspectives. But there is some evidence to support my view in the increasing use of the term "global political economy" to refer to this new IPE's domain. http://www.ups.edu/ipe/whatisipe.htm   (580 words)      International Political Economy International Political Economy (IPE) is the rapidly developing social science field of study that attempts to understand international and global problems using an eclectic interdisciplinary array of analytical tools and theoretical perspectives. Economists often assume away state interests while political scientists sometimes fail to look beyond the nation-state; both miss the dynamic interaction of state and market that characterizes political economy. But there is some evidence to support my view in the increasing use of the term "global political economy" to refer to this new IPE's domain. http://www2.ups.edu/ipe/whatisipe.htm   (2675 words)      SOVIET UNION: "SORT OF SOCIALISM" AFTER PERESTROIKA The soviet political economy, after Perestroika, wills neither be a centrally planned command economy nor a privatised market one, but "a sort of socialism", according to a leading soviet personality involved in Perestroika. It would not be a completely unregulated market, but enterprises would be free to buy and sell and make free choice of clients, and the economy would be open to foreign competition through imports and joint ventures. The final goal, he said, was the creation in the Soviet Union of enterprises, market-oriented and autonomous, but operating under strict social policy and state regulation, primarily through economic instruments like taxes, tariffs and legal instruments. http://www.sunsonline.org/trade/areas/develope/11290089.htm   (1311 words)      NCSJ - Russia page The last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev (1985-91), charted a new political course with initiated reforms aimed at modernizing the USSR, including economic restructuring (perestroika) and a loosening of restrictions on political, social and cultural activity (glasnost). Refuseniks, or those agitating for emigration who had been refused exit visas from the Soviet government, lost their jobs and social status and were vulnerable to KGB surveillance and even imprisonment. However, in August 1972, the Soviet government instituted a new “diploma tax” for emigrants, prompting the U.S. Congress to pass the Jackson-Vanik Amendment to the Trade Bill of 1974, which prohibited the extension of most-favored nation (MFN) status to non-market countries that restrict emigration. http://www.ncsj.org/Russia.shtml   (1311 words)      Larkey: Political Economy of Memory in East Germany The post-unification period has witnessed the privatization of the East German economy, the de-regulation of most areas of public life and the de-centralization of the centralized economic and political institutions in the country. In the wake of the 1955 establishment of the NATO and Warsaw Pact military alliances, the Socialist Unity Party and the GDR government pursued a policy of a constructing a socialist German nation within the GDR state (25). East Germans are reconstructing and renegotiating their identities with rock music, drawing on both local as well as global sources, re-interpreting symbols and musical narratives to both accommodate and resist hegemonic West German historical and cultural discourses which de-legitimize and subordinate East German social experiences and discourses within the project of German unification. http://www.bsos.umd.edu/CSS97/papers/larkey.html   (9608 words)      Keywords » Anglo Saxon Laborers Point One: Ireland is not an exemplar of the “Anglo Saxon model.” For evidence, take a look at this recent paper [PDF] by Lane Kenworthy, which argues convincingly that Ireland doesn’t fit well into either the Anglo-Saxon ‘liberal market economy’ or Rhenish ‘coordinated model economy’ models. … Finally, there’s a very strong argument to be made that it is exactly the non-Anglo-Saxon features of the Irish economy – and in particular the systematized concertation [PDF] between trade unions, management, government and other social actors – that was at the heart of Ireland’s economic success in the 1990’s. This entry was posted on Saturday, July 2nd, 2005 at 2:23 pm and is filed under Labor, The Economy. http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2005/07/02/anglo-saxon-laborers   (692 words)      The French Mistake The directive was meant to be the cornerstone of a program to revitalize Europe's economy by creating a true internal market in a sector that is responsible for 70 percent of its output. The French left argues that the constitution would make create an irrevocably Anglo-Saxon European economy, thus undermining all those hard-won gains of the last 50 years. However, by so forcefully campaigning against it, as some 80,000 demonstrators did in the streets of Brussels just before last week's summit, they are in fact undermining the institutional structure that currently defends their cherished social model. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1374908/posts   (703 words)      Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market "For the slave economy to work smoothly, slaveholders had continually to consider the reactions of their unwilling underwriters. Over and over again, Johnson reads the words of slave owners and sees "fantasies" (the word crops up on page after page) -- fantasies about how buying, owning, and working slaves would elevate the owner's social standing, increase his (or her) "whiteness," solve family problems, advertise benevolence and paternalism, and demonstrate mastery, honor, and potency. Johnson's descriptions of the slaves and their complicated, human, often-overlooked role in the slave market is full of important insights and poignancy. http://www.eh.net/bookreviews/library/0366.shtml   (703 words)      Hofmarcher: Health Insurance and Productivity The institutions and the provision of social health insurance are particularly challenged at a turning point when transition in terms of macroeconomic stabilization, along with the consolidated organization and financing of social and health insurance schemes, is accommodated to a business cycle–driven market economy The specific challenge for transition countries is how to adopt strategies to translate economic progress into health and social gains through reliable institutions, among them social health insurance bodies. However, all CEE countries have 3-28% lower human development than the industrialized countries. http://www.cmj.hr/1999/40/2/400218a.htm   (256 words)      TCS Daily - The German Miracle? While there is no common ground as to what social justice actually is, Social Market Economy seeks to strike a balance between the efficiency of market economy and social stability and attempts to shape a liberal economic order according to political rules which then fulfills certain criteria of social justice. The Social Market Economy concept had two central aspects: 1) Decontrol to a certain degree of market processes, and 2) an institutional framework of government Ordnungspolitik, an orderly structure of rules for the economy, designed to steer market powers and compensate for undesirable effects of liberalization. Soon, the Social Market Economy began to move away from the free market to more government regulation, a situation that began to burden the economy all the more once the global economic environment changed in the mid-1980s. http://www.techcentralstation.com/031704B.html   (1750 words)      edner.doc In outlining this particular line of reasoning that ranges from the historist project of Socialpolitik to the notion of the social market economy the focus is on the persistence in the conceptualisation of the cultural and religious embeddedness of economic activity. In particular, the question has been posed, whether the concept of the social market economy, as presented in the draft version of the European Constitution, is actually fit to serve as a model for dealing with economic and social problems in the integration process. However, these debates on the role of the social market economy as a model for the economic and social order of the European Union tend to misrepresent the intellectual foundations of the concept of the social market economy. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/sociology/events/moralecon/abstracts/edner.doc   (550 words)      Amazon.com: The German Economy : Beyond the Social Market: Books: Horst Siebert product market regulation, social absorption, social market economy, competitive order, export position, world market share, institutional setup, maneuvering space SIPs: product market regulation, social absorption, social market economy, competitive order, export position (more) Horst Siebert paints the German economy on a large canvas; his analysis stretches well beyond the labor market. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691096643?v=glance   (926 words)      Conference on The Social Economy in Central, East and South-East Europe: Emerging Trends of Social Innovation and Local Development Second, they analysed the tools and strategies that the social economy employs: what are the key factors that define good practices in labour market integration and social inclusion, what is the role of partnerships and networking in developing social innovation. Debates and discussions focused on two main themes: First, participants debated the rationale and legal frameworks underlining social economy models: how do social economy organisations combine economic and social objective, how do legal frameworks support social economy development; how local best practices are identified, and how these inform policy processes. This conference took place on 22-23 September 2005 in Trento, Italy.  It built on the interest registered at the Capacity Building Seminar in November 2004 to further explore the trends, opportunities and challenges that social economy actors face in countries of the Baltic States, Central, East and South-East Europe (see agenda). http://www.oecd.org/document/29/0,2340,en_2649_34417_34450717_1_1_1_1,00.html   (413 words)      MPIfG Working Paper 99/8, Wolfgang Streeck:Competitive Solidarity: Rethinking the "European Social Model" The politics of social solidarity in Europe, therefore, will for the foreseeable future remain vested primarily in national institutions, of social policy and of industrial relations, which in turn are embedded in a competitive international market and constrained by supranational institutions devoted to safeguarding that market. And while European countries were able to agree on opening their markets to each other and to the outside world, they continue to find it impossible to define common interests in the protection of rents and agree on its joint political appropriation and consensual division for shared purposes of social justice. Today concepts of solidarity and social justice that presuppose an economy tolerant of slack seem less and less sustainable. http://www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de/pu/workpap/wp99-8/wp99-8.html   (413 words)      Ludwig Erhard: Dictionaries define the social market economy as an economic system based on the free market economy principle, aimed at guaranteeing economic efficiency and power and social justice with a high degree of individual freedom. He interpreted social market economy as an economic system combining market freedom with social equilibrium, with the government playing a regulating role and creating the framework for market processes. The term social market economy was coined by the national economist Alfred Müller-Armack, one of Ludwig Erhards close associates who served as Secretary of State at the Economics Ministry in Bonn from 1958-63. http://www.germanembassy-india.org/news/march97/erhard.htm   (413 words)      indymedia germany What is social about the German Social Market Economy? 12.07.2002 23:48 The ordo-liberals agreed that instead of income subsidy programs, a social market economy should be one in which workers are given the chance to accumulate capital, which would give them the means for improving their social status in the social structure. As it happened the social-Market economy seem to have been the way to avoid the weaknesses of both systems, yet the statistics seem to say it was more a nicely curved slogan than the commitment of the politicians to serve the general interest. The concept of the social market economy was created in 1947 by the order-liberals and Alfred Müller-Armack as an alternative to capitalism and socialism. http://de.indymedia.org/2002/07/25930.shtml   (1792 words)      The German social market economy and its changes Another aim of the Social Market Economy was to create and develop an economic order which could be accepted by any ideology so that all forces in society could be focused on the common task of assuring the basic living conditions and the rebuilding of the economy. Social Market Economy means a mixture between a classical liberal way of thinking and social, state managed elements. In this first period the "fathers" of the Social Market Economy, Ludwig Erhard (minister of trade and commerce then chancellor) and Andreas Müller-Armack (permanent secretary in the ministry of trade and commerce) held the most important positions in economic policy. http://tiss.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de/webroot/sp/spsba01_W98_1/germany1b.htm   (2061 words)      Germany - The Social Market Economy The term "social" is stressed because West Germans wanted an economy that would not only help the wealthy but also care for the workers and others who might not prove able to cope with the strenuous competitive demands of a market economy. The Germans proudly label their economy a "soziale Marktwirtschaft," or "social market economy," to show that the system as it has developed after World War II has both a material and a social--or human--dimension. Beyond these principles of the social market economy, but linked to it, comes a more traditional German concept, that of Ordnung, which can be directly translated to mean order but which really means an economy, society, and polity that are structured but not dictatorial. http://countrystudies.us/germany/136.htm   (498 words)      Social Security Department For the social outcome it is largely irrelevant whether social employment is implemented through public or publicly sponsored employment in the service sector or brought about by liberal labour market mechanisms as long as the latter are accompanied by mechanism to keep the working population out of poverty. The consequentially increased social expenditure in turn negatively affects the competitive position of the economy as a whole and hence aggravates the negative macro-economic effects of the national social protection systems. It is claimed here that the US socio-economic model has developed in addition to direct social transfers a system of indirect social transfers using the labour market as an agent of income redistribution - or by reverse logic, that the European welfare states have triggered a suppression of that function of the labour market. http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/socsec/publ/dispp3.htm   (498 words)      Market economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the model of a social market economy the state intervenes where the market does not fulfill the needs of the market participants. The theoretical model of a large-scale free market economy does not occur legally, however the underground economy may be seen as an actualized free market economy. A market economy that has little or no governmental intervention is called a free market economy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_economy   (704 words)      Schwerdt Online: Social Market Economy In summary, the social market economy is a harnessing of the efficiencies of a market-driven order of competition and supply and demand to unify the spiritual, economic, and humane requirements of life. The social market economy is at once an economic, social, and politcal program that seeks to balance market-principle and social-principle. The opening of domestic markets to foreign suppliers—thus, a liberal foreign trade policy—is a sign of logically applied competition policy, which is one of the basic elements in an economic policy based on market economy lines. http://www.freewebs.com/schwerdt/resources/economy.htm   (500 words)      Germany - The Social Market Economy The term "social" is stressed because West Germans wanted an economy that would not only help the wealthy but also care for the workers and others who might not prove able to cope with the strenuous competitive demands of a market economy. The Germans proudly label their economy a "soziale Marktwirtschaft," or "social market economy," to show that the system as it has developed after World War II has both a material and a social--or human--dimension. Beyond these principles of the social market economy, but linked to it, comes a more traditional German concept, that of Ordnung, which can be directly translated to mean order but which really means an economy, society, and polity that are structured but not dictatorial. http://countrystudies.us/germany/136.htm   (498 words)      Market - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Though markets are often viewed as being located in a physical marketplace that allow a face-to-face meeting, markets may exist in any medium that allows social interaction, such as through mail or over the Internet. Critics of the market economy have tried or proposed a command economy or other non-market economy. An economic system in which goods and services (and resources required to produce those goods and services) are mediated by markets is called a market economy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market   (535 words)      Rebuilding Germany: The Creation of the Social Market Economy, 1945-1957 Today the concept of Soziale Marktwirtschaft (social market economy) often is considered to be a synonym for the welfare state and the related growth problems which became evident in Germany in the last years. In his monograph about the creation of the social market economy in Germany, James C. van Hook rightly emphasizes that this definition is not in accord with the concept implemented in West Germany after World War II. Regarding the development of the social market economy during the 1950s, van Hook begins with the decision process resulting in the Investment Aid Law of 1952. http://www.eh.net/bookreviews/library/0934.shtml   (1105 words)      Krakow 2004 Indeed, the social economy is an intrinsic mechanism of sustainable development, based on solidarity, equity and reasoned acceptance of the principles of a regulated free market. Such enterprises, known as "enterprises of social economy", contribute largely to the internal market, local and regional development and social cohesion.This has often been underlined by the various European Institutions. At this event, we stressed the importance for the social economy enterprises and organisations in the Central and Eastern European countries to be integrated in the European Union. http://www.krakow2004.coop   (394 words)      Social Economy Social economy enterprises are a component of the social economy that are run like businesses, producing goods and services for the market economy, but manage their operations and redirect their surpluses in pursuit of social and environmental goals. The social economy is an entrepreneurial, not for profit sector that seeks to enhance the social, economic and environmental conditions of communities. Common objectives for social economy organizations include alleviating poverty, providing affordable housing, improving employment and economic opportunities, addressing environmental concerns and providing access to services and programs that can assist individuals and groups to improve their personal circumstances. http://www.wd.gc.ca/ced/se/default_e.asp?printVersion=1   (647 words)

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