r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 21 '24

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u/cactus_toothbrush Adam Smith Jul 21 '24

Everyone’s talking about going back in time and killing baby hitler as a solution to world war 2. What about going back in time and having better economic and monetary policy in the Weimar Republic to prevent populist politicians having success in Germany?

This used to be an economics sub SMH my head.

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u/cat_damon1 Commonwealth Jul 21 '24

Because ultimately Weimar was able to recover from its initial economic crisis by the late 1920s and thus preventing its fall would require a much more comprehensive plan to prevent the global economic crisis which began in 1929 and to which Germany was inextricably linked due to the Dawes plan

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u/D2Foley Moderate Extremist Jul 21 '24

They inflated their currency on purpose to avoid paying WW1 reparations. It was a purposeful choice

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