O regresso do Estado II

Economy of Nazi Germany:

Throughout the 1930s, German businesses were encouraged to form cartels, monopolies and oligopolies, whose interests were then protected by the state.[27] In his book, Big Business in the Third Reich, Arthur Schweitzer notes that:

“ Monopolistic price fixing became the rule in most industries, and cartels were no longer confined to the heavy or large-scale industries. […] Cartels and quasi-cartels (whether of big business or small) set prices, engaged in limiting production, and agreed to divide markets and classify consumers in order to realize a monopoly profit.[28] ”

As big business became increasingly organized, it developed an increasingly close partnership with the Nazi government. The government pursued economic policies that maximized the profits of its business allies, and, in exchange, business leaders supported the government’s political and military goals.[7]