- 著者
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藤本 建夫
- 出版者
- 経済学史学会
- 雑誌
- 経済学史研究 (ISSN:18803164)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.52, no.2, pp.63-82, 2011 (Released:2019-08-20)
The “welfare” of a nation and the “welfare state”
should be considered separately. Various economic
and social ideas were born during the interwar
period and the war. One of these was the
welfare state theory against the Nazis state. W.
Beveridge, a Keynesian economist, discussed the
“welfare state” from the premises of an effective,
state-controlled economy. In Germany, the liberalist
group of the anti-Nazis prepared for the
theoretical core of social economics( social
market economy) for the after-war period,
which was not only opposed to the Keynesian
state and economy but also criticized the Hayekian
fundamentalism of the market economy.
One of the leading theoreticians, W. Röpke,
found preconditions for the more human and affluent
economic society in the competing market
economy and the decentralization( subsidiarity).
In rising productivity, the diligent and saving
workers and the “conform state interventions”
are capable of creating a humane economic society.
Röpke’s way of thinking harmonized with
Catholic doctrines. On Reconstruction of the Social
Order( Pius XI, 1931) was an extremely
important document for him. Politically, it justifies
the decentralization by stating that the greater
association should be assigned to subordinate
organizations. In terms of the worker-employer
relationship, the worker shares ownership or
management in that the worker contract can be
modified by a partnership contract. Here, the
welfare of workers will rise, though the state
does not take care of individual workers like
Beveridge Plan. This is also the Röpke’s goal of
“welfare.”
JEL classification numbers: B 25, I 31, P 46.