First published 1939
The Vampire Economy
The Vampire Economy by Günter Reimann is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.
- Günter Reimann
- First published
- 1939
- Format
- PDF and EPUB
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN
- 9781610160384
- Publisher
- New York: Vanguard Press
- License
- Still in copyright: this work was published in the 1932-1963 window when US copyright had to be renewed after 28 years, and a renewal for it was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. It is free to read and download from this archive, but it is not public domain and not Creative Commons.
The state & socialism Law, property & rights Austrian theory & method
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 reasons that are discomforting,: as much as the left hated the social and cultural agenda of the Nazis, the economic agenda fit straight into a pattern of statism that had emerged in Europe and the United States, and in this area, the world has not be de-Nazified. This books makes for alarming reading, as one discovers the extent to which the Nazi economic agenda of totalitarian control--without finally abolishing private property--has become the norm. The author is by no means an Austrian but his study provides historical understanding and frightening look at the consequences of state economic management.
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- How long is The Vampire Economy?
- 368 pages, 22 chapters, and about 90,588 words in the edition this archive serves.
- Is The Vampire Economy in the public domain?
- No. US works published between 1932 and 1963 kept copyright past 28 years if someone filed a renewal, and a renewal for this work was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. It is free to read and download from this archive, but it is not public domain and not Creative Commons.
- Who wrote The Vampire Economy?
- Günter Reimann (born Hans Steinicke in Angermünde, 1904–2005) was an expert on finance and currencies as founder and editor of International Reports, a New York–based weekly publication he sold to the London Financial Times in 1983.
What's in it
22 chapters · 90,588 words · page numbers are this file's
- Graphic on Autosp. 3
- Introductory Notep. 4
- Prefacep. 6
- I. What Happened to the Businessmanp. 20
- II. Destruction of the Sanctity of Private Propertyp. 27
- III. Corruption: Money Power Against Absolute Powerp. 38
- IV. The Contact Manp. 61
- V. Raw Material Distributionp. 69
- VI. Price Dictatorship and Private Initiativep. 85
- VII. Industrial Group Leadersp. 107
- VIII. The 'Factory Leader' and His Followersp. 118
- IX. Industrial Investment Policiesp. 142
- X. Bankers as State Officialsp. 171
- XI. Stock Exchange and Speculation Under Fascismp. 192
- XII. 'Self-Sufficiency Through Ersatzp. 207
- XIII. From World Trade to Trade Warfarep. 230
- XIV. Fascist Empire Buildingp. 270
- XV. Planning for Warp. 292
- XVI. Bureaucracy in Controlp. 308
- XVII. A World of Absurditiesp. 322
- Reference Notesp. 346
- Glossaryp. 358
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