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

ISBN-13: 9783642721311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 360 str.

Peter Koslowski

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Preface PETER KOSLOWSKI, Introduction: The Social Market Economy and the Varieties of Capitalism PART A: SOCIAL MARKET ECONOMY. CONTEMPORARY ANALYSIS AND THEORY. SECTION I: THE THEORY OF THE ECONOMIC ORDER CHRISTIAN WATRIN, The Social Market Economy: The Main Ideas and Their Influence on Economic Policy - KONSTANTIN S. PIGROV, The Idea of Economic Order in Contemporary Russia - MANFRED E. STREIT, Has the Market Economy Still a Chance? On the Lack of a Disciplining Challenge - SERGEY A. NIKOLSKY, The Chances for Economic Order in Post-Soviet Russia - PETER KOSLOWSKI, The Social Market Economy: Social Equilibration of Capitalism and Consideration of the Totality of the Economic Order. Notes on Alfred Müller-Armack SECTION II: THE ETHICS OF THE ECONOMIC ORDER SVETLANA V. SIMONOVA, The Ethics of Business in Russia - VLADIMIR V. BIBIKHIN, One's Own Proper. What is Property in its Essence? SECTION III: THE REPERSONALISATION OF SOCIALIZED PROPERTY WOLF-DIETER PLESSING, Privatisation in the New Lands of the Former German Democratic Republic - ALEXANDER I. LIAKIN, Reprivatisation and Economic Transformation in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union SECTION IV: THE PRIVATISATION OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR SILKE STAHL, Independent Family Farms Versus Hierarchical Forms of Organisation. Spontaneous Emergence of Property Rights Structures in Russian Agriculture - EVGENI F. SHEPELEV, Russian Law and Land Privatisation SECTION V: THE ECONOMIC ORDER IN PRIVATE AND IN PUBLIC LAW BORIS V. MARKOV, Law and Economic Order in the Structures of Russian Everyday Life - KNUT WOLFGANG NÖRR, A Symbiosis with Reserve: Social Market Economy and Legal Order in Germany PART B: SOCIAL MARKET ECONOMY. FOUR BASIC TEXTS SECTION I: THE THEORY OF ECONOMIC ORDER ALFRED MüLLER-ARMACK, The Principles of the Social Market Economy (1965) SECTION II: THE ETHICS OF THE ECONOMIC ORDER OTTO SCHLECHT, The Ethical Content of the Social MarketEconomy (1988) SECTION III: ATTEMPTS TO FORM A BROADER BASIS FOR THE OWNERSHIP OF THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION IN THE SOCIAL MARKET ECONOMY OSWALD VON NELL-BREUNING S.J., The Formation of Private Property in the Hands of Workers (1956) SECTION IV: THE THEORY OF COMPETITION ERNST JOACHIM MESTMÄCKER, The Role of Competition in a Liberal Society (1979) ANATOLY A. SOBCHAK, A Message of Greeting List of Authors and Discussants Index of Names

O autorze

Peter Koslowski ist Gründungsdirektor des Forschungsinstituts für Philosophie Hannover und Professor für Philosophie und Politische Ökonomie an der Universität Witten/Herdecke.