a bold measure in principal which is left permanently in abeyance in practice
The German philosopher Jürgen Habermas long ago recognized that capitalism has the tendency to develop a 'legitimacy deficit'-- a situation in which citizens, independently of their political beliefs or ideology, lose confidence in the right of political and administrative authorities to act as they do.
German unification began with a customs union known as the Zollverein, an 1833 agreement between the various territories promoted as a first step towards freer trade and much needed economic integration.
Having made the transition from Gestapo-organized paramilitary to local gendarmerie
on some random Nazi dude
John Maynard Keynyes, back in 1936, had to quote Ibsen's Wild Duck in order to convey to his reader the problem that a central bank faces when interest rates fall to zero but the economy is still in the doldrums
