Editing Decartelization (section)

==Debate==

The general debate with decartelization is a national economy controlled by monopolies and cartels, versus a free market economy. With a free market economy, the pros are very clear. It encourages individual initiatives; it determines price of goods through [[competition]], and motivates people to work towards [[financial independence]]. Most individuals would prefer a free [[market economy]], where there are many buyers and sellers in each market, and the prices are determined based on competition alone. The problem is, it is not up to the individuals. In most cases of cartels, these secret arrangements are done "under the radar", and these major companies know how to cover their tracks. It is very difficult to prove that companies have formed a cartel; therefore it is very difficult to dismantle one.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/07-011.pdf |title=Cartels and Competition: Neither Markets nor Hierarchies |first=Jeffrey |last=Fear |year=2006 |type=working paper |publisher=Harvard Business School |access-date=14 February 2022}}</ref>

In the case with the [[Third Reich]] in Germany, the people had no choice. During the war, there was a school called {{lang|de|[[soziale Marktwirtschaft]]}}, the "social conscience free market". Members of this school hated [[totalitarianism]] and had propounded their views at some risk during the Nazis' rule. Wrote [[Henry Wallich]], "During the Nazi Reich period the school represented a kind of intellectual resistance movement, requiring great personal courage as well as independence of mind." The school's members believed in free markets, along with some slight degree of progression in the [[income tax]] system and government action to limit monopoly.<ref>{{cite web |title=Trade With the Third Reich Bibliography |date=15 August 2016 |url=https://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/bibliographies/trade-with-third-reich.html |publisher=National Archives |location=United States |access-date=14 February 2022}}</ref>