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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">pseudoniem Oto blijft gewoon ageren
tegen betweterige dogmatische Keynesianen... daar ga jij gelukkig
niet over. <br>
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On 20-09-12 16:44, Henk Vreekamp wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Inderdaad Bert,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Dogmatici en sektariers herken je
vaak aan hun historische en ideologische blindheid. Dus -
vrolijk op weg en terug naar de gemengde economie, liefst
zonder pseudoniem Oto (wie was dat ook weer?).</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">hv,u</font></div>
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neoliberale nazis</div>
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Als dat de overweging is kunnen we beter ook de kinderbijslag
afschaffen. En de sociale ziektekostenverzekering/ziekenfonds.
Allemaal door de Duitsers hier gebracht...
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Edited on Wed Sep-13-06 10:22 AM by swag<br>
PDF of Germa Bell's article published in "Journal of
Economic Perspectives"<br>
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Excerpted and discussed at Economist's View.<br>
<br>
Against the Mainstream: Nazi Privatization in 1930s
Germany, by Germa Bel:<br>
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I. Introduction<br>
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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).<br>
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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.<br>
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. . .<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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:<br>
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class="gmail_quote">Wat blijkt: privatisering is
uitgevonden door de Nazis! Neoliberale<br>
ideologie met de roots in het Nazisme. Een
neoliberaal is in feite dus<br>
gewoon een ordinaire Nazi...<br>
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New post on An und für sich<br>
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A Fun Fact about Privatization: With Scattered
Reflections on “the State”<br>
by Adam Kotsko<br>
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James Meek's LRB article about electricity
privatization in the UK<br>
includes an interesting tidbit:<br>
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How did we get here? In 1981, with inflation
and unemployment at 10<br>
per cent plus, with the recently elected
Conservative government forced<br>
to yield to the demands of the miners, public
spending cuts provoking<br>
general outrage and Thatcher’s prime ministerial
career seemingly doomed<br>
to a swift, ignominious end, a 38-year-old economist
from Birmingham<br>
University called Stephen Littlechild was working on
ways to realise an<br>
esoteric idea that had been much discussed in
radical Tory circles:<br>
privatisation. Privatisation was not a Thatcher
patent. The Spanish<br>
economist Germà Bel traces the origins of the word
to the German word<br>
Reprivatisierung, first used in English in 1936 by
the Berlin<br>
correspondent of the Economist, writing about Nazi
economic policy. In<br>
1943, in an analysis of Hitler’s programme in the
Quarterly Journal of<br>
Economics, the word ‘privatisation’ entered the
academic literature for<br>
the first time. The author, Sidney Merlin, wrote
that the Nazi Party<br>
‘facilitates the accumulation of private fortunes
and industrial empires<br>
by its foremost members and collaborators through
“privatisation” and<br>
other measures, thereby intensifying centralisation
of economic affairs<br>
and government in an increasingly narrow group that
may for all<br>
practical purposes be termed the national socialist
elite’.<br>
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That's right: privatization of government functions
and state-owned<br>
industries was literally invented by the Nazis.<br>
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This reminds me of something I've been meaning to
blog about for months.<br>
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