The belief in a consensus among labour, industry and government underlies Germany's social-market economy, the model shaped in the 1950s to ensure social harmony while production forged ahead.

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We think that Poland, because of its extraordinary success, both as a democracy and as a market-based economy, is a model and example for the region.

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She also said that Germany's "social market economy" could serve as a model for a future international financial system in which governments guarded both the "social and economic order" and proposed the creation of a U.N. economic council modeled on the Security Council.

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The Rhineland model may be seen as a regulated market economy with a comprehensive system of social security.

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