Weimar Germany: The first open access order that failed?

Reckendrees, Alfred

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“…5 Democracy is equality before the law and further, as Pericles and Alexis de Tocqueville and I would add, equality of dignity, such as Tocqueville noted in the lack of deference to social superiors in 1830s America. At the other end of the history of doorsteps, Alfred Reckendrees (2015) has pointed out that, if it was not an perpetual open access order, just such conditions characterized Weimar Germany, which failed, as he argues, for lack of ethics. So did Athenian democracy when, as Thucydides put it, ethical 'words [such as justice] lost their meaning', and as Tocqueville worried about in the rule of mobs, now revived in anti-immigrant populism (see White, 1984, citing Thucydides, bk.…”

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The great enrichment: a humanistic and social scientific account

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2016

Scandinavian Economic History Review

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The scientific problem is explaining modern economic growth is its astonishing magnitude-anywhere from a 3,000 to a 10,000 percent increase in real income, a "Great Enrichment." Investment, reallocation, property rights, exploitation cannot explain it. Only the bettering of betterment can, the stunning increase in new ideas, such as the screw propeller on ships or the ball bearing in machines, the modern university for the masses and careers open to talent. Why, then, the new and trade-tested ideas? Because liberty to have a go, as the English say, and a dignity to the wigmakers and telegraph operators having the go made the mass of people bold. Equal liberty and dignity for ordinary people is called "liberalism," and it was new to Europe in the eighteenth century, against old hierarchies. Why the liberalism? It was not deep European superiorities, but the accidents of the Four R's of (German) Reformation, (Dutch) Revolt, (American and French) Revolution, and (Scottish and Scandinavian) Reading. It could have gone the other way, leaving, say, China to have the Great Enrichment, much later. Europe, and then the world, was lucky after 1900. Now China and India have adopted liberalism (in the Chinese case only in the economy), and are catching up.

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“…2 . Alfred Reckendrees has pointed out that just such conditions characterized Weimar Germany, which failed for lack of ethics (Reckendrees 2014). 3 In a recent history with a wider scope than England, France, and the United States, the volume's editor Larry Neal nonetheless offers a definition of “capitalism” as (1) private property rights, (2) contracts enforceable by third parties, (3) markets with responsive prices, and (4) supportive governments (Neal and Williamson 2014).…”

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The Great Enrichment:A Humanistic and Social Scientific Account

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2016

Social Science History

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From 1800 to the present the average person on the planet has been enriched in real terms by a factor of 10, or some 900 percent. In the ever-rising share of places from Belgium to Botswana, and now in China and India, that have agreed to the Bourgeois Deal—“Let me earn profits from creative destruction in the first act, and by the third act I will make all of you rich”—the factor is 30 in conventional terms and, if allowing for improved quality of goods and services, such as in improved glass and autos, or improved medicine and higher education, a factor of 100. That is, the reward from allowing ordinary people to have a go, the rise at first in northwestern Europe and then worldwide of economic liberty and social dignity, eroding ancient hierarchy and evading modern regulation, has been anything from 2,900 to 9,900 percent. What needs to be explained in a modern social science history is not the Industrial Revolution(s) but the Great Enrichment, one or two orders of magnitude larger than any previous change in human history. The article takes seriously the lesson of comparative history that Europe was not unique until 1700 and argues that ideas—specifically Bourgeois liberal ideas—not capital or institutions, made the modern world.

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Foreign Direct Investment in the Post-Mugabe Era

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2020

African Histories and Modernities

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Weimar Germany: The first open access order that failed?

Abstract: The Weimar Republic is analysed within the framework of limited and open access orders.

Cited by 13 publications

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The great enrichment: a humanistic and social scientific account

The great enrichment: a humanistic and social scientific account

The Great Enrichment:A Humanistic and Social Scientific Account

Foreign Direct Investment in the Post-Mugabe Era

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