Mises left a possible gold gem that I'm unable to support empirically.

Economics Political Theory
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“Nazi germany wasn’t socialism! Socialism is central planning! Nazi germany and hitler LOVED privatization!”

I’m sure you’ve all heard or encountered this lovely statement before.

In Human Action, Mises offers a brilliant insight to the inner-workings of nazi germany; the Reichswirtschaftsministerium (say that 5 times fast) which literally dictated production, prices, wages, etc. Central planning. State socialism, essentially.

However, the only proof I can find of this role of the Reichsw. is in Human Action. Does anyone know any sources that also back up or even refute the role described by Mises? I’ve searched a bit on yahoo and google and it’s insanely obscure.

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http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/the-german-economic-miracle-and-the-quotsocial-market-economyquot/

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2597802?&Search=yes&searchText=nazi&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3Ffilter%3Diid%253A10.2307%252Fi324336%26Query%3Dnazi%26Search.x%3D0%26Search.y%3D0%26wc%3Don&prevSearch=&item=1&ttl=4&returnArticleService=showFullText

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Actually, it seems like the jstor article might be part of a larger book: http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/64262/sovietnazieconom00temi.pdf?sequence=1

Do check the book out, as I think the abstract matches your idea.

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Also,

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/centralplanning.html

It seems like a Google search for “nazi prices wages central planning” is quite fruitful (go beyond just the first page):

http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGGE_enUS391US392&gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=nazi+prices+wages+central+planning#q=nazi+prices+wages+central+planning&hl=en&rlz=1C1GGGE_enUS391US392&prmd=imvns&ei=tt17TuapIMXm0QH5zby2Ag&start=10&sa=N&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=2999ac5cb47abfda&biw=1920&bih=989

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look in the mises store (or amazon or google) for a book called “the vampire economy”. It is about nazi gemany’s economic conditions