The ordoliberal school of competition thought is a distinct linguistic community whose conceptual and semantic influence extended far beyond Germany and eventually shaped the European legal order. Linguistic misunderstandings still impacted the negotiations of the founding European Treaties, but...

Current research on the long-term influence of ordoliberal and neoliberal ideas is hampered by an overly static and generalised picture of the Freiburg School. To address this gap, the paper analyses all articles published in ORDO, the flagship journal of the Freiburg School, between 1948 and...

By employing Text Mining methods such as Structural Topic Modeling to examine all 2,135 speeches by ECB Executive Board members between February 1997 and October 2019, this paper identifies and analyses a significant semantic change that occurred in ECB communication in the transition from Great...

The history of German economic thought is often told as a story of underdevelopment that started with a delayed adoption of Keynesianism. This narrative was reinforced by discussions during the Eurozone crisis that traced this perceived underdevelopment back to Ordoliberalism, a German school of...

Wir analysieren erstmalig die Rolle von Zukunftsthemen in Bundestagsreden zwischen 1949 und 2021 mithilfe computerlinguistischer Methoden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass der Diskurs über Zukunftsthemen im Bundestag mit dem Wirtschaftswunder zwischen den 1960er und 1990er Jahren stark anstieg. Seit...