5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent diagnosis of the German economy, December 12, 2005
This review is from: The German Economy: Beyond the Social Market (Hardcover)
We recommend this excellent, comprehensive and straightforward book, which clearly sets out the author's diagnosis and prescription for the German economy: reform its approaches to education, social equity, subsidies, trade and more. Horst Siebert traces the roots of Germany's problems to the student movements of the '60s with their emphasis on collectivism and hedonism. He provides a detailed, highly readable account of German economic history. He covers the great recovery and prosperity that followed Ludwig Erhard's reforms of 1948 and the lagging growth that seemed to begin with the oil shocks and recessions of the 1970s and 1980s, but that has roots far deeper than oil. Siebert says, Germany's problems have no win-win solution. Some interest groups must lose if Germany is to restore economic growth and leave subsequent generations more than the invoice for today's excesses.
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