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The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism
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Here is a study of the actual workings of business under national socialism. Written in 1939, Reimann discusses the effects of heavy regulation, inflation, price controls, trade interference, national economic planning, and attacks on private property, and what consequences they had for human rights and economic development. This is a subject rarely discussed and for reaso
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Published
2007
by Ludwig von Mises Institute
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Far too many people I encounter seem to think that Fascism/Nazism is associated with free-market capitalism. This book written by a Communist-leaning German economist destroys that notion.
As the full name of the Nazi Party suggests, the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) was in every way Socialist with society (in this case defined as Arians) were more important than the individual.
The burdensome regulations that changed on the whi ...more
As the full name of the Nazi Party suggests, the National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) was in every way Socialist with society (in this case defined as Arians) were more important than the individual.
The burdensome regulations that changed on the whi ...more
The Vampire Economy (1939), is a fascinating read, a study in easy-to-understand language, that makes no attempt to be pedantic, I read it with an eye toward comparing how America the Beautiful compares w/this time period of Germany. Granted, there are vast differences, but the similarities are troubling. Being a self-employed man for more than twenty years now and seeing the slow but steady encroachment of the State and witnessing, almost on a daily basis, the cry for more of the same, more of
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Really interesting to read about the economy and business activities of Nazi Germany from someone who lived through it. The government controlled practically every facet of the economy, I'm amazed that Germany didn't collapse a lot sooner. Unfortunately the book has a lot of redundancy which started to bore me half way through. The book should be edited and cut by at least 30%.
Published in 1939, this survey of how the fascist economy actually worked (or, mostly, didn't) in Germany under Nazi rule is fascinating and scary in equal measure. It lays out the kind of detail that you don't usually get, explaining just how the National Socialists took control, and kept things running even as they ran them into the ground.
It bogs down a bit in a couple of chapters, when Reimann lays many, many charts and numbers on the reader. But that sort of detailed comparison is precisely ...more
It bogs down a bit in a couple of chapters, when Reimann lays many, many charts and numbers on the reader. But that sort of detailed comparison is precisely ...more
Jul 12, 2009
Jon
marked it as to-read
This should be a fascinating read.
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