The university of Freiburg is known as home of the ordo-liberal Freiburg School (Vanberg 1998), a research tradition that was founded in the 1930s by a group of economists and jurists who shared the conviction that a properly functioning market order needs to be framed by appropriate rules, that...

[Einleitung ...] In meinem Beitrag möchte ich die Frage nach den Gründen, die für oder gegen eine stärker subsidiär-polyzentrische und wettbewerbliche Organisation föderaler Systeme sprechen mögen, unter zwei Gesichtspunkten erörtern. Zunächst wird es mir darum gehen, zu klären,...

The long-standing critique of the 'economic model of man' has gained new impetus not least due to the broadening research in behavioral and experimental economics. Many of the critics have focused on the apparent difficulty of traditional rational choice theory to account for the role of moral...

The theoretical consistency and practical applicability of traditional welfare economics has long been subject to controversy. More recently the challenge has been added from evolutionary approaches that the individual preferences on which the welfare calculus is based are themselves subject to...

The growth of the democratic welfare state has been accompanied by significant restrictions on individual liberty, raising doubts about the sustainability of the ideals of liberalism in democratic polities. The principal claim of this paper is that, adequately understood, liberalism and...

In Franz Böhms Konzept der Privatrechtsgesellschaft als einer Gesellschaft von "Gleichfreien und Gleichberechtigten" (Böhm 1980b: 140) bündeln sich in prägnanter Weise die theoretischen und politischen Kernvorstellungen des rechts- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Forschungsprogramms der...

The paper approaches the "market versus state" issue from the perspective of constitutional political economy, a research program that has been advanced as a principal alternative to traditional welfare economics and its perspective on the relation between market and state. Constitutional...

What has become known as the Freiburg School or the Ordo-liberal School was founded in the 1930s at the University of Freiburg in Germany by economist Walter Eucken (1891-1950) and two jurists, Franz Böhm (1895-1977) and Hans Großmann-Doerth (1894-1944). Freiburg University's "Fakultät für...

Die Unterscheidung zwischen grundlegenden Ordnungsprinzipien und real existierenden Ordnungsformen ist entscheidend, wenn es darum geht, die tatsächlichen Ursachen von Erscheinungen zu identifizieren, die Anlass für Unzufriedenheit bieten, und um die Richtung identifizieren zu können, in die...