The First Socialization Debate (1918) and Early Efforts Towards Socialization
by Jürgen Backhaus (Editor), Günther Chaloupek (Editor), Hans A. Frambach (Editor)

About the Author
Jürgen G. Backhaus (*1950), JSD 1976, PhD (Econ) 1985, Professor of Public Finance and Fiscal Sociology at Erfurt University 2000-2015. Between 1986 and 2000, he has held the chair in Public Economics at Maastricht University. In 2006 he received the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Knight’s Cross), in September 2004 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Thessaly (Greece). In 1994 he founded (with Frank H. Stephen) the European Journal of Law and Economics. He has published 60 books and monographs, about 200 articles in refereed journals and book chapters, 28 scholarly notes and 63 reviews. His research interests span economics, but also neighboring disciplines such as law, fiscal sociology and environmental sciences.

About this book
This book discusses the 1918 European socialization debate, its consequences, and its relevance a century later. Following the end of the First World War, the disastrous social and economic situation facing Europe led to calls for socialization of central economic sectors, as well as measures for the improvement of work conditions and social security. This book rekindles the debate, presenting the basic issues of socialization from different European countries and taking into account current developments. The chapters track the socialism debate in Europe from its initial inception in 1918 and examine the ways in which it has shaped the public discourse in the years following, drawing theoretical connections between the conditions that created the environment for the debate to begin and contemporary social and political trends. This book will be of particular interest to graduate students and researchers of socioeconomics, ethics, the history of economic thought, history, and political science.

Brief contents

• The First Socialization Debate of 1918: Was the Socialization Commission Doomed to Failure Right from the Start?
• From “Finance Capital” to “Organized Capitalism:” Socialization in Rudolf Hilferding’s Writings Under the Influence of Ferdinand Tönnies
• Visions of Socialization and Political Reality—the Position of Labour Minister Heinrich Brauns
• Different Views of Socialization Strategies in Germany Since the First Socialization Debate
• Socialization Proposals: The Aspect of Labor Participation
• Anti-Semitism Versus Democracy and Welfare State in the Weimar Republic
• Otto Neurath’s Concepts of Socialization and Economic Calculation and His Socialist Critics
• Socialization Concepts of Non-socialist Econo-mists in Austria: Karl Pribram, Gustav Stolper, Joseph Schumpeter
• From Socialisation to Regulation—The Secularisation of Dutch Social Democracy
• Joseph Schumpeter, the Euthanasia of Capitalism
• Three Models of a Supply Side Socially Oriented Political Economy to Recover a National Identity of the Workers and Small Business Middle Class Under Parliamentarian Democracy—Schumpeter, Rathenau, and Hilferding
• Suffrage Extension and Redistribution: The Role of National Identity, Interest Group Conflict and Corporativism
• Ludwig von Mises’ Argument Against the Possibility of Socialism: Early Concepts and Contemporary Relevance
• On the (Im)Possibility of Socialist Calculation: Marschak Versus Mises
  

Series: The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences (Book 23)
Pages: 235 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1st ed. 2019 edition (July 24, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3030150232
ISBN-13: 978-3030150235

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