Book contents
- Profits and Persecution
- Profits and Persecution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Prologue, 1918–1933
- Part II Autarky and Armament, 1933–1939/41
- 3 Compliance
- 4 Monopsony
- 5 Dejewification
- Part III Total War, 1939/41–1945
- Part IV Aftermath, 1945–2024
- Notes
- References
- Index
4 - Monopsony
from Part II - Autarky and Armament, 1933–1939/41
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 November 2024
- Profits and Persecution
- Profits and Persecution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Prologue, 1918–1933
- Part II Autarky and Armament, 1933–1939/41
- 3 Compliance
- 4 Monopsony
- 5 Dejewification
- Part III Total War, 1939/41–1945
- Part IV Aftermath, 1945–2024
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter explains why and how the Nazi regime created a mixed economy in which property remained private but profits were largely controlled by government policy. As Germany became a monopsony, an economy dominated by a single buyer, in this case the German state, large firms adapted their business to serving the state’s desires and demands, thus becoming agents and servants of them.
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- Profits and PersecutionGerman Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust, pp. 45 - 62Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025