What's the most shocking #Deutschland news?

#Germany #WorldCup #WWC #Berlin #KaiWegner #CDU #ordoliberalism #eupol #europolitics

@Alon @JessTheUnstill Also it's kinda part of #Ordoliberalism, where in general things are laissez-faire but the basic frameworks like healthcare, social security, minimum wage, etc. are set and where employers compete for employees...

@TruthSandwich @CStamp @floatybirb @futurebird also most people would already be satisfied with #Ordoliberalism and subsequent social safety and -programs that aim at affordable housing, cheap transport that doesn't make one depend on a car and actually working infrastructure...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eIxUuuJX7Y

@salad_bar_breath *nodds in agreeement*

It's flabberghasting that they think the shitty #socdem|s that destroy #Ordoliberalism is seen by them as a "dystophia" when they are literally creating one made out of social darwinism.

I recently took a series of political quizzes which opened me up to reflection on my political opinions. I always like to challenge myself to think differently and wonder if my representation of political action really aligns with the motivations I have for #society, i.e. to make it more fair and ensure a broader #equality, setting in motion change now that will better meet the needs of the future, including tackling the #climatecrisis and other such vital changes.

When one of the descriptions of my #political inclinations was described as #ordoliberalism by a political quiz, I wondered what that even was. I began reading about it, and found that it was a type of #economic reform, the strongest case of which was done by #Germany after World War II, in which the government imposes stricter market control in order to have #capitalism work towards its theoretical potential. This is done by ensuring competition is happening from the bottom-up, with #progressive taxation and higher expectations out of people at the top.

One of the core tenets is that strong economic power can easily become political power, and hence one of the objectives is also to avoid that. I would say there is strong evidence of that theory in the United States. I find this way, the balance between #collectivism and #liberalism, strikes a balance that benefits society more holistically, enabling better products and services. I also think that this will allow societies to be working and thriving at a much higher level than they are now.

Ordoliberalism gets results, as well. It was considered to have enabled the German "economic miracle" after the War. To me, in the US, it doesn't seem that we hate the totality of capitalism, but instead, the unnecessary evils of its negative aspects. This is what I think economic policy and legislature is meant to curb, and I think it can continue to do so with policy.

Ordoliberalism seems to me to be underrepresented in the economic literature. Perhaps because as theorists the members of this school have not left much behind. But this school of thought had a great political influence in Europe in the 1950s. It is difficult to find an article telling the history of ordoliberal ideas and analyzing their influence.

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#ordoliberalism