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Freiheit statt Kapitalismus. Wie wir zu mehr Arbeit, Innovation und Gerechtigkeit kommen (lit. 'Freedom instead of capitalism: How we will achieve more work, innovation, and justice') is a 2011 book by the German politician Sahra Wagenknecht.

LanguageGerman
PublisherEichborn Verlag [de]
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Freiheit statt Kapitalismus
AuthorSahra Wagenknecht
LanguageGerman
Subjecteconomic interventionism
PublisherEichborn Verlag [de]
Publication date
2011
Publication placeGermany
Pages365
ISBN9783821865461
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Sahra Wagenknecht criticises capitalism and promotes economic interventionism as a way to increase social welfare and avoid that the economy becomes controlled by unproductive self-interests.[1][2] Wagenknecht calls the system she promotes "creative socialism" and defines it as "market economy without capitalism and socialism without a planned economy".[3]

Publication

The book was published in 2011 by Eichborn Verlag [de].[2] A second expanded edition was published by Campus-Verlag [de] on 30 April 2012 with the new subtitle Über vergessene Ideale, die Eurokrise und unsere Zukunft (lit. 'On forgotten ideals, the Euro crisis, and our future').[4]

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