Introduction to the German Economic System - Einzelansicht

Introduction to the German Economic System

Internationales

Politik und Gesellschaft

Objectives

Students will be introduced into the "Social Market Economy" with its most important modules in theory and how this model is working in reality. The most urgent prob­lems which arosed during practizing SME in the last 20 years will be shown and ana­lysed. Possibilities of reshaping the model will be discussed.

Curriculum

- Development of the model of "Social Market Economy" after World War II in Ger­many;

- The specific German combination of a basic free market economy with a socially structured performance;

- Discussion of current problems especially the German insurance systems concern­ing old-age pensions, unemployment, and health.

Literature

Abelshauser, Werner (2005): The Dynamics of German Industry. Germany's Path to­ward the New Economy and the American Challenge. New York, Oxford (Berghahn­books).Glossner, Christian L. (2010): The Making of the German Post-War Eco­nomy: Political Communication and Public Reception of the Social Market Economy After World War II", London (I.B. Tauris). Van Hook, James C. (2007): Rebuilding Germany: The Creation of the Social Market Economy, 1945 - 1957, Cambridge UK (Cambridge University Press).Podhostnik, Thomas (2002): Aspects of the Social Market Economy: The History and Foundation of Social Market Economy, Konstanz (didactmedia). Siebert, Horst (2005): German Economy: Beyond the Social Market, Princeton, (Princeton University Press).

2 SWS / ECTS 1 - (2.5 bei Zusatzleistung)