Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rhine capitalism


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The result was   merge to Social market economy. The Bushranger One ping only 12:03, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Rhine capitalism

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This article is an unnecessary WP:CFORK of social market economy (SME), which is also about the German model and presents a more appropriate perspective by resorting to a much broader array of sources. Most authors use "Rhine capitalism" with the same meaning of the German (SME) model. Most of the fork page nominated in this AfD is based on the wp:primary sources/books of one author (Michel Albert), who also apparently coined the term. He gets a passing mention in a footnote of a book by two other authors (Halls and Soskice), but only to say that they develop their of comparison between the US and Germany; they don't use the term "Rhine capitalism" except when they mention Albert's book. Minor differences in use of "Rhine capitalism" to denote something similar but perhaps not quite the same as SME can be mentioned in the SME article. Someone not using his real name (talk) 16:16, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete; 70% fork and 30% synthesis. bobrayner (talk) 16:36, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
 * It might make some sense to write an article about the book in which Albert proposed his theory, titled Capitalism vs. Capitalism or Capitalism against Capitalism (there seem to be two translations of its French title by different publishers: ). Secondary sources actually discussing the theses of the book (as opposed to using a term coined there with a slightly different meaning) focus mostly on other aspects of the book e.g. the dispute with Fukuyama  or something to do with insurance models, so I don't see much material that could be salvaged from this wiki page for an article about the book. Someone not using his real name (talk) 17:11, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
 * We have a book-type article about a similar but broader (in scope) book, Halls and Soskice (eds.) Varieties of Capitalism, although that page presently seems to fail WP:NBOOK; there is one omnibus review of several such books here, but it doesn't unfortunately cover Albert's book except by mention it in passing. Someone not using his real name (talk) 18:05, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Northamerica1000(talk) 11:25, 10 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Merge with Social market economy and/or German model While Albert's characterisation of Rhenish capitalism does seem to have some points of difference from others' characterisations of the social market economy or the German model, these do not seem enough to justify a separate article, particularly when in practice it is mostly referenced to Albert's work. But there is still enough to make this worth at least a mention elsewhere. PWilkinson (talk) 19:09, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Merge with Social market economy Albert's characterization of Rhine capitalism should be included in a subsection of the social market economy due to the heavy overlap, but as PWilkinson says, there is not enough sources to justify a separate article. "Rhine capitalism" appears to be used as a synonym for the social market economy. - Battlecry 06:13, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
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