Frases de Ludwig Erhard

“El progreso de la economía depende íntimamente del rumbo que tome nuestro estado democrático.”

“Nosotros rechazamos el Estado benefactor de carácter socialista, y la protección total y general del ciudadano, no solamente porque esta tutela, al parecer tan bien intencionada, crea unas dependencias tales que a la postre sólo produce súbditos, pero forzosamente tiene que matar la libre mentalidad ciudadana, sino también porque esta especie de auto enajenación, es decir, la renuncia a la responsabilidad humana, debe llevar, con la paralización de la voluntad individual de rendimiento, a un descenso del rendimiento económico del pueblo.”

“Ley de Bancos: Establece normas a los Bancos Federados tales como a)elevar del 10% al 15% las reservas mínimas, b)restringe la capacidad de redescuento, c)exhorta a los banco a que reduzcan lo créditos a un nivel anterior.”

“Aumento de del ingreso/hora del trabajador.”

“As I have said time and again, the focal point of our economy is the individual.”

“A collectivist-totalitarian economic system, which in the final analysis serves only to glorify and increase the power of the state, can achieve great success in the easily controllable field of the basic industries but it will always remain incapable of serving man, in other words of providing the rich abundance of goods which gives the individual consumer a free choice and which enriches and beautifies his life.”

“In a community of free people the freedom of economic activity is an inseparable part of the whole, and only this freedom will ensure a life worth living.”

“National autonomy in economic matters should not be an obstacle to a free world economic system. But to achieve free convertibility within the European Payments Union only would lead to further upheavals. The dollar and the pound sterling should be included in any such step, if a new single world market was to be created. A free political order implied a free economic order; this would stand foremost amongst the preoccupations of the new Bundestag.”