If there can be no simple going back to the old constitutional economics, what then could a new constitutional economics be like, one which is connected explicitly to international discourses but at the same time considers itself to be in the tradition of Eucken, Böhm and Röpke? This is the...

This book analyzes both the biographical and theoretical relations between the Freiburg school of economics and Höffner's thinking as it represents Christian social teaching. The focus lies on the question of how it is possible to develop a social theory which is economically sound, ethically...

Das Jahr 1961 markiert einen Wendepunkt in der deutschsprachigen Sozialpolitiklehre: Das Werk "Ökonomische Theorie der Sozialpolitik", das Elisabeth Liefmann-Keil zu diesem Zeitpunkt veröffentlichte, wurde als Ereignis für die wissenschaftliche Sozialpolitik (Zöllner 1962: 215) und als...

"Soziale Marktwirtschaft" (Social Market Economy) is the economic order that was established in Western Germany after 1945. It is not a precisely outlined theoretical system but more a cipher for a "mélange" of socio-political ideas for a free and socially just society and some general rules of...