Ideologies / State Socialist / Walther Rathenau
§ The minds · 1867–1922 · Germany · Industrialist & minister
Walther Rathenau
The planned economy
Industry organised by the state.
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SocialistMarket
Governance+64
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Social−6
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The industrialist who organised Germany's wartime economy and theorised a planned, state-directed industrial order — a founding mind of 20th-century economic statism.
social
Cultured liberal-conservative moderniser.
economic
Pioneered wartime state organisation of the whole economy.
governance
Held that a guiding state should rationalise and direct industry.
Notable for
- Organised the WWI war economy
- Theorist of the planned economy
- Weimar foreign minister
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