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The concept of Ordnungspolitik : rule-based economic policy-making from the perspective of the Freiburg School
Schnellenbach, Jan - 2021
argument for rule-based Ordnungspolitik back to the roots of the concept. In doing so, will not offer a comprehensive review of … Freiburg approach is still valid. There are good, empirical arguments for pursuing a rule-based Ordnungspolitik in order to … incapacitation of democratic decision-making. Rules rely on democratic support, and rule-based Ordnungspolitik also leaves …
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Antipathy for Heidelberg, sympathy for Freiburg? : Vincent Ostrom on Max Weber, Walter Eucken, and the compound history of order
Kolev, Stefan - 2019
Vincent Ostrom's legacy is revisited in this paper along three dimensions: Ostrom's contributions as a historian of politico-economic thought, as a complexity theorist, and as an epistemologist. All three dimensions are captured from a perspective which has seldom been studied systematically...
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When liberty presupposes order : F. A. Hayek's learning ordoliberalism
Kolev, Stefan - 2021
This paper contextualizes the early political economy of Austrian economist and social philosopher F. A. Hayek in the intellectual milieu of German ordoliberalism. It argues that the particular urgency during the 1930s and 1940s to preserve and stabilize the disintegrating orders of economy and...
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Emigration with a pulled handbrake : Friedrich A. Lutz's internal Methodenstreit
Grudev, Lachezar - 2021
My paper reconstructs the path of German economist Friedrich A. Lutz (1901−1975) to American economics. The correspondence with his former teacherWalter Eucken, the founder of the Freiburg School, constitutes a crucial and yet unexplored source for the paper. Through Lutz's case, I demonstrate...
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Transatlantic roads to Mont Pèlerin : "Old Chicago" and Freiburg in a world of disintegrating orders
Kolev, Stefan; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2021
This paper depicts the co-evolution of the political economies of the "Old Chicago" and Freiburg Schools. These communities within the "laissez-faire within rules" research program and the long-standing "thinking-inorders" tradition emerged in the 1930s and culminated in the 1940s into a...
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Walter Eucken's role in the early history of the Mont Pèlerin Society
Kolev, Stefan; Goldschmidt, Nils; Hesse, Jan-Otmar - 2014
In the history of economic thought Walter Eucken is mostly known for his impact in establishing the Social Market Economy in post-war Germany. Even though there is a growing interest in his ideas especially from an Austrian and a Constitutional Economics perspective, his influence on the...
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Walter Eucken on competitive order at the founding meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society 1947
Kolev, Stefan; Horn, Karen - 2022
This paper provides, after a contextualizing introduction, the first-time translation of Walter Eucken’s presentation during the first session of the founding meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society, April 1-10, 1947. Eucken was the only scholar based in Germany to attend the conference and took...
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Competition or conflict? : beyond traditional ordo-liberalism
Dold, Malte; Krieger, Tim - 2017
According to the traditional ordo-liberal view of the Freiburg School, the central role of the state in economic affairs is to set up rules that create a competitive order within which private actors have sufficient incentives to coordinate their economic affairs efficiently. Underlying this...
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The Ordoliberal Variety of Neoliberalism
Schnyder, Gerhard - 2014
Ordoliberalism differs from other liberal theories in not supporting the simplistic idea that the ‘government is the problem'. The aim of this chapter is therefore to explain the core features of ordoliberalism and distinguish it from other varieties of liberalism. We also show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065514
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The ‘New’ Crisis of the Liberal Order : Populism, Socioeconomic Imbalances, and the Response of Contemporary Ordoliberalism
Dold, Malte F. - 2019
In recent years, commentators have noticed that the European liberal order is ‘under attack'. Traditional parties of the center are in decline. Populist movements of the right and the left have won elections or significant shares in parliaments. In the face of this ‘new' crisis of...
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