Argues that different elements in Eucken's work have had insufficient attention in post-war Germany, in science as well as in political practice. In Eucken's thinking, order (especially order in the economic and political field and the interconnection between them) is the central concept. In...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on links between former “Heilbronn Symposia” on social, economic and political changes, and evolutionary concepts of the nineteenth and early twentieth century to solve the “Social Question” (“S. Qu.”) in Germany....