The strongest version of this narrative is that the post-war economic model demonstrates how deliberate policy choices—redistribution, high taxation, and public investment—can create broad-based prosperity. The argument is well-supported by historical data and contemporary calls for reinvestment, such as the CHIPS Act and EU strategic autonomy plans. It correctly identifies that neoliberalism was a political shift, not an economic inevitability, and that Romania’s convergence with EU standards p...