The article tries to answer an old question of economic theory and institutional economics: How do trade unions fit into a market economy? Are they a constitutive element of the market order or: are they a source of irritation and disruption?

The essay narrates and analyzes Eugen Dühring’s remotion, i.e. the taking away of his status as Privatdozent , and thereby of his right to teach at a university, by the Prussian Minister of Culture in 1877. After sketching out the background of the University of Berlin, the institution of...

Purpose – This paper suggests that an adequate understanding of the notion of the social market economy, which has become a prominent aspect of debates on the social model of the European Constitution, is to be assessed in the context of the historist tradition in German economic and social...

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....

Gives a short outline of the main charac‐teristics and emphasizes the actual signifi‐cance of Walter Eucken′s work. Summarizes the articles included in the journal.

Explains and outlines the ideas of the Freiburg School. Points to the fact that the constitutive (structurizing) and regulative principles for economic policy developed by this school need operationalization in order to serve as a compass for economic policy. Presents a checklist to test policy...

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....

Reports that, in 1943, Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg (1905‐1946) discussed with an informal group meeting in Freiburg (Breisgau ‐ Germany) “Limits and possibilities of economic planning”. Explains that the group called after its chairman “von Beckerath Circle” met to discuss...

Friedrich Althoff (1839‐1908), who created the “Althoff system”, has had a singularly important influence on shaping academic institutions in Germany for almost a generation. As a close collaborator of leading German scholars his influence lasted almost throughout the second empire...