[D66] neoliberale nazis

Thu Sep 20 11:13:24 CEST 2012

Als dat de overweging is kunnen we beter ook de kinderbijslag afschaffen.
En de sociale ziektekostenverzekering/ziekenfonds. Allemaal door de
Duitsers hier gebracht...

2012/9/20 Antid Oto <protocosmos66 at gmail.com>

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> http://www.ub.es/graap/nazi.**pdf <http://www.ub.es/graap/nazi.pdf>
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> Edited on Wed Sep-13-06 10:22 AM by swag
> PDF of Germa Bell's article published in "Journal of Economic Perspectives"
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> Excerpted and discussed at Economist's View.
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> Against the Mainstream: Nazi Privatization in 1930s Germany, by Germa Bel:
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> I. Introduction
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> Privatization of large parts of the public sector has been one of the
> defining policies of the last quarter of the twentieth century. The
> privatizations in Chile and the United Kingdom, implemented beginning in
> the 1970s and 1980s, are usually considered the first privatization
> policies in modern history (e.g. Yergin and Stanislaw, 1998, p.115). A few
> researchers find earlier instances. Some economic analyses of privatization
> (e.g. Megginson, 2005, p. 15) identify partial sales of state-owned firms
> implemented in Adenauer’s Germany in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the
> first large-scale privatization program, and others argue that, although
> confined to just one sector, the denationalization of steel and coal in the
> United Kingdom during the early 1950s should be considered the first
> privatization (e.g. Burk, 1988; Megginson and Netter, 2003, p. 31).
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> None of the contemporary economic analyses of privatization takes into
> account an earlier and important experience: the privatization policy
> applied by the Germany’s National Socialist Party (Nazi Party). The lack of
> reference to this early privatization experience in the modern literature
> on privatization is consistent with its invisibility in either the recent
> literature on the Germany economy in the twentieth century (e.g. Braun,
> 2003) or the history of Germany’s publicly owned enterprise (e.g.
> Wengenroth, 2000). Occasionally, some authors mention the re-privatization
> of banks with no additional comment or analysis (e.g. Barkai, 1990, p. 216;
> James, 1995, p. 291). Other works, like Hardach (1980, p. 66) and Buchheim
> and Scherner (2005, p. 17), mention the sale of state ownership in Nazi
> Germany only to support the idea that the Nazi government opposed
> widespread state ownership of firms. However, they do not carry out any
> analysis of these privatizations.
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> VII. Conclusions Although modern economic literature usually fails to
> notice it, the Nazi government in 1930s Germany undertook a wide scale
> privatization policy. The government sold public ownership in several
> state-owned firms in different sectors. In addition to this, delivery of
> some public services previously produced by the public sector was
> transferred to the private sector, mainly to organizations within the Nazi
> Party.
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> Ideological motivations do not explain Nazi privatization. On the
> contrary, political motivations were important. The Nazi government may
> have used privatization as a tool to improve its relationship with big
> industrialists and to increase their support for Nazi policies.
> Privatization was also likely used to enhance more general political
> support to Nazi party. Finally, financial motivations did play a central
> role in Nazi privatization. The proceeds from privatization in 1934-37 had
> relevant fiscal significance: Not less than 1.37 per cent of total fiscal
> revenues were obtained from selling shares in public firms. Moreover, the
> government avoided including a huge expenditure in the budget by using
> outside-of-the-budget tools to finance the public services franchised to
> Nazi organizations.
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> Nazi economic policy in the middle thirties was against the mainstream in
> several dimensions. The huge increase in public expenditure programs was
> unique, as was the increase in the armament programs, and together they
> heavily constrained the budget. To finance this exceptional expenditure,
> exceptional policies were put in place. Privatization was just one among
> them. It was systematically implemented in a period in which no other
> country did so, and this drove Nazi policy against the mainstream, which
> flowed against privatization of state ownership or public services until
> the last quarter of the twentieth century.
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> On 19-09-12 20:20, Antid Oto wrote:
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>> Wat blijkt: privatisering is uitgevonden door de Nazis! Neoliberale
>> ideologie met de roots in het Nazisme. Een neoliberaal is in feite dus
>> gewoon een ordinaire Nazi...
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>> New post on An und für sich
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>> A Fun Fact about Privatization: With Scattered Reflections on “the State”
>> by Adam Kotsko
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>> James Meek's LRB article about electricity privatization in the UK
>> includes an interesting tidbit:
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>>      How did we get here? In 1981, with inflation and unemployment at 10
>> per cent plus, with the recently elected Conservative government forced
>> to yield to the demands of the miners, public spending cuts provoking
>> general outrage and Thatcher’s prime ministerial career seemingly doomed
>> to a swift, ignominious end, a 38-year-old economist from Birmingham
>> University called Stephen Littlechild was working on ways to realise an
>> esoteric idea that had been much discussed in radical Tory circles:
>> privatisation. Privatisation was not a Thatcher patent. The Spanish
>> economist Germà Bel traces the origins of the word to the German word
>> Reprivatisierung, first used in English in 1936 by the Berlin
>> correspondent of the Economist, writing about Nazi economic policy. In
>> 1943, in an analysis of Hitler’s programme in the Quarterly Journal of
>> Economics, the word ‘privatisation’ entered the academic literature for
>> the first time. The author, Sidney Merlin, wrote that the Nazi Party
>> ‘facilitates the accumulation of private fortunes and industrial empires
>> by its foremost members and collaborators through “privatisation” and
>> other measures, thereby intensifying centralisation of economic affairs
>> and government in an increasingly narrow group that may for all
>> practical purposes be termed the national socialist elite’.
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>> That's right: privatization of government functions and state-owned
>> industries was literally invented by the Nazis.
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>> This reminds me of something I've been meaning to blog about for months.
>> Read more of this post
>> Adam Kotsko | Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 7:27 am | Categories:
>> economics, fascism, Foucault, politics | URL: http://wp.me/p2IRQ-2dn
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