The Economic Comeback of Germany

Tags: Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory, Booms and Busts, Global Economy, War and Foreign Policy, World History

08/25/2009 Hans F. Sennholz

The “miracle” of Germany’s revival was not the result of a conscious rejection of socialism, but was rather an accident of political and social conditions. Germans meant by freedom the freedom to impose their own controls, writes Hans F. Sennholz (1922–2007).

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