Backdating German neoliberalism
Ordoliberalism, the German model and economic experiments in eastern Germany after 1989
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2399429 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ben Gook (0000-0001-7426-7224, Humboldt University, Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 33-48 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1440-7833 • E-ISSN: 1741-2978 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1440783318759085 |
| OpenAlex | W2789011660 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 41 |
Since the 2007-8 financial crisis and subsequent difficulties in the eurozone, Germany's recent economic history has been much studied. However, less attention has been paid to neoliberalisation in eastern Germany in the early 1990s, when the region became a laboratory for political economic experiments. The results were later spread across the (western) German economy, then into the European Union's (EU's) ideological core. As such, a focus on the western 'German model' and the EU can miss the way neoliberalism crept into German social and economic life through German re-unification in the 1990s. Re-unification provided conditions in the former East for a 'natural experiment' with different modes of economic and social governance - a space of exception from the West German model, whose corporatist features were already fraying in the 1980s. In short, re-unification was a turning point in a drift towards neoliberalism, intensifying moves already quietly under way in West Germany in the 1980s. The contentious nature of this shift has largely been forgotten and sidelined
Economic history · Economic policy · Economic system · Economics · Economy · European union · German · German model · Ideology · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Unification · European Socioeconomic and Political Studies · European Union Policy and Governance · History · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Varieties of Transition
Birth of Austerity
On the Social Life of Postsocialism
Markets in the Name of Socialism
Constructions of Neoliberal Reason
Buying Time
Austerity
Auf Wiedersehen, Rhineland Model
Contradictions of the Welfare State
Triumph of the Fatherland
Shocks to the System
German Capitalism
Economic Rationalism in Canberra
Strategies of Economic Order
Where the World Ended
Variegated Capitalism, das Modell Deutschland, and the Eurozone Crisis
Reflections on Werner Bonefeld's ‘Freedom and the Strong State
Freedom and the Strong State
Privatisation in Eastern Germany—Experience with the treuhand
Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders
Divided in Unity
A Humane Economy
How Will Capitalism End
Europe's ordoliberal iron cage
The decline and resurgence of the ‘German model
Europe and the political philosophy of neoliberalism
Critical political economy and the critique of comparative capitalisms scholarship on capitalist diversity
Institutional Change in the East German Transformation Process
Family Values
Ostalgieand the Politics of the Future in Eastern Germany
Where in the world does neoliberalism come from
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |