Roland Berger, a business consultant, is calling for a significant course change in economic policy.
It is necessary to abandon the “currently prevailing state-planned interventions in the market, economy, and technology” and to revive the social market economy “through trust in the market and in the reason of the respective market participants”, he said to the “Stern”. The consultant also speaks out against anti-globalization politics: the policy should promote worldwide fair and equal competitive conditions, “instead of risking trade wars through tariffs and subsidies”.
Berger argues for “fair, community-oriented state framework conditions”, for example, by regulating monopolistic activities such as communication and power grids and providing critical infrastructure for education, research, and development, as well as transportation. The costs for this should come as little as possible from the state budget, instead, Berger speaks of mobilizing private investment capital through incentives.