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Wilhelm Roepke’s Emphasis on the Local Community

In: Two Centuries of Local Autonomy

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  • Ursula M. Backhaus

    (Institute for Social Sciences and Forethought)

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Wihelm Roepke (1899–1966) calls for decentralized measures at the community level in order to fight pitfalls of modern mass society, and he is also an advocate of decentralization in the design of economic policies in order to prevent political dictatorship. An example of his decentralized economic proposals are the German deficit-based recovery policies, which were designed under his guidance in the Brauns Commission (1930/1931). In contrast to what Keynes had suggested, these policies have been designed as municipal policies, and not as centralized (aggregate) state policies. In the first part of this paper, the focus is on Roepke’s vision of the humane economy and society with respect to life and work in the local community. In the second part, his ideas on economic policy designed as municipal policies are illustrated. The paper ends with a summary and conclusion.

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  • Ursula M. Backhaus, 2012. "Wilhelm Roepke’s Emphasis on the Local Community," The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences, in: Jürgen Georg Backhaus (ed.), Two Centuries of Local Autonomy, chapter 0, pages 29-40, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:euhchp:978-1-4614-0293-0_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0293-0_4
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