Sub-project 4: Socio-economic thinking in the GDR
of centralised planning based predominantly on state property rights. It implies decision making not by private entrepreneurs, but by administrative state personnel at all levels of the hierarchy. It f [...] the process of structural development: democracy, the rule of law, the market economy, the welfare state, and mass consumption. Such is the western, liberal vision of modernization. The eastern, socialist [...] inhibitors: deficits in the prevalence of democracy, the rule of law, market economics, and the welfare state or a deficit of differentiation, inclusion, and competition? This research asks: How did socio-economic