Abstract
Exactly 200 years after the decisive year of 1789, during the other decisive year of 1989 as the centralised economy system was abandoned across the Soviet bloc, a great deal of marketing, financial and accounting literature appeared. This was not only in Central and Eastern but also in Western Europe. The victory of “capitalism” over “socialism” boosted massively the “managerial” and “econometric” view on economics, at the expense of economics as a social science. Proportionally on the bookshelves there was significantly less literature based on economics as a social science than on the heyday concept of “management” of companies.
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Whether economics is a science at all is also a question to answer. We can operate scientifically with economics, but I would categorise it to that area what is today known as social “science” and thus economics, as a discipline rather belonging to political philosophy.
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See the suggestive cover of The Economist (2009, July 18). There, the dissolution of the modern economic theory, which we know has been under the dominance of the econometric view on economics, is illustrated in the form of an economics book made of ice cream which is melting away. This dominance had been in place at least starting with the reform of the Bretton Woods system in 1971–1972.
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For details regarding the Order’s situation and economic difficulties at the turn of the century, see Wensierski (2000), p. 62. Among the highest ranking Tertiaries of the Order, there is Edmund Stoiber, former president of the CSU and former CDU/CSU candidate to the office of German Chancellor in the 2002 election campaign.
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Before the Magyars were pushed by the Germans eastwards from the Pannonian plain into the hilly Transylvania, the latter had been a part of the Romanian–Bulgarian Empire of Ioniţă Asan Caloian. This empire was a confederation of Christian–Orthodox states in South-Eastern Europe, with the capital at Trnovo, in today’s North-Eastern Bulgaria. It stretched from northern Greece to the Tisa river. Comp. Dumitriu-Snagov (1996), p. 55.
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See Boockmann (1994), pp. 68–69: “König Andreas II von Ungarn […] hatte dem Orden Besitz […] im Burzenland, in Siebenbürgen geschenkt. Der Orden sollte hier die Grenze des christlichen Ungarn gegen die heidnischen Kumanen schützen. Der Orden hat zu diesem Zweck sechs Burgen errichtet […] Im Jahre 1224 nahm der Papst auf Bitten des Ordens das Burzenland in sein, bzw. des Heiligen Petrus Eigentum, er unterstützte also den Orden bei dem Versuch, dieses Gebiet aus Ungarn herauszulösen und es zu einem unabhängigen Herrschaftsgebiet zu machen […] Der ungarische König hat die Deutschordensbrüder vielmehr im Jahr 1225 mit Militärgewalt aus dem Burzenland vertrieben. Er hatte Helfer gewollt, die Helfer hatten sich selbständig machen wollen, und er war stark genug, sich das nicht gefallen zu lassen”. One of these fortresses is the Prejmer fortress (Tartlau) near Braşov, which is well preserved, also under UNESCO protection.
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The military education and lifestyle instilled in the population there for those three centuries, for which the Christian monastic state lasted, could probably partly explain militaristic tendencies, loyalty, discipline, precision but also Prussia’s portrayed impenetrability, which can still be observed today.
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See Koslowski (1998), p. 7.
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See Müller-Armack (1965), p. 258.
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See No authors (1999).
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Mureşan, Ş.S. (2014). Introduction. In: Social Market Economy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09213-3_1
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