Finanzwissenschaft

The social Theory of Georg Simmel

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Identifikator:: 1017727422

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-56103

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Földes, Béla http://d-nb.info/gnd/119338211

Title:: Finanzwissenschaft

Place of publication:: Jena

Publisher:: Verlag von Gustav Fischer

Year of publication:: 1920

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 686 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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1al re~ for No ig- le- ts m= ob- ‘he TO~- 18- ess o- ger of ati- 2b- ries the eti- ree ~lal "ms re- the ‘m- ults ove ug- “his ‘he OPPOSITION 129 critics of competition, who usually see only the factual re- sults and advantages for the group and the formal anti- thetic aspect of the relation between the competitors. A competitive system is therefore not identical with a system that is purely individualistic. The competitor works, of course, for his own interests. But, as the contest is fought by means of objective values or social services and is usually advantageous to the group, it may be in the in- terest of the group to foster competition. With reference to the final aims of social life, the question of the advan- tage or disadvantage of competition is a problem of social technique, not a question of ultimate ends. The question has been answered in different ways. On the one side stands the group that advocates unlimited competition because it believes in the efficiency of the competitive system. On the other side stands the group of socialists, who deny that the waste of energy and duplication which result from com- petition are counterbalanced by the advantages of the competitive system. They advocate a social technique which is to operate with a system of co-ordinated and in- tegrated services directed from a central point, instead of a system of competing individual efforts. In between stand different groups advocating restricted competition in some fields and organized and co-ordinated services in other fields. A comparison of these different systems is a comparison of means, not of ends. A judgment and valua- tion of their comparative merit should therefore be based on their efficiency as means. But the intellectual capacity for a theoretic valuation is usually lacking, and the result is that in the controversies of the different groups senti- ments and subjective preferences play a more important part than differences of opinion about actual efficiency.! t Soz., pp. 282-97.

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