Der in der Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena aufbewahrte Nachlass der Publizistin Edith Eucken-Erdsiek enthält reiches Quellenmaterial zu den weltanschaulichen Debatten der Weimarer Republik, zu Leben und Werk von Walter Eucken und zur Geschichte des Ordoliberalismus zwischen...

Dieser Beitrag stellt das ordonomische Forschungsprogramm vor und erläutert seine methodologischen Wurzeln. Gezeigt wird, wie sich eine deutschsprachige Traditionslinie von der Ordnungsökonomik über die Ordnungsethik bis hin zur Ordonomik entwickelt hat. Die Ordonomik integriert zentrale...

This article introduces the ordonomic research program and explains its methodological roots. It shows how a German-speaking line of tradition has developed from Order Economics (Ordnungsökonomik) through Order Ethics (Ordnungsethik) to Ordonomics (Ordonomik). Ordonomics integrates central...

Der in der Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena aufbewahrte Nachlass der Publizistin Edith Eucken-Erdsiek enthält reiches Quellenmaterial zu den weltanschaulichen Debatten der Weimarer Republik, zu Leben und Werk von Walter Eucken und zur Geschichte des Ordoliberalismus zwischen...

Dieser Beitrag stellt das ordonomische Forschungsprogramm vor und erläutert seine methodologischen Wurzeln. Gezeigt wird, wie sich eine deutschsprachige Traditionslinie von der Ordnungsökonomik über die Ordnungsethik bis hin zur Ordonomik entwickelt hat. Die Ordonomik integriert zentrale...

This article introduces the ordonomic research program and explains its methodological roots. It shows how a German-speaking line of tradition has developed from Order Economics (Ordnungsökonomik) through Order Ethics (Ordnungsethik) to Ordonomics (Ordonomik). Ordonomics integrates central...

This article examines the role of ideas, tradition, and economic history in the context of F. A. Hayek's theory of social knowledge. While Hayek often emphasized the beneficial consequences of unintended and spontaneous action, his accounts of the transmission of ideas within society identified...

For several decades, what has been called the "liberal cosmopolitan-minded urban elites" set the political agenda of Western democracies (Dold and Krieger 2019a). They aimed at personal freedom and upward social mobility by means of a meritocratic system that was safeguarded by a combination of...

In diesem Diskussionspapier werden die Bedingungen untersucht, unter denen die Fähigkeit zu Innovation in einer marktwirtschaftlichen Ordnung zur Entfaltung kommt. Diese theoretische Leitfrage bildet den Kern eines neuen ordoliberalen Innovationsframeworks, welches speziell auf den...

Populist movements increasingly challenge liberal Western market democracies. Populism can be explained only in part by phenomena like globalization and digitization producing winners and losers in economic terms. Growing feelings of alienation from the market-democratic system and the perceived...

1. Prologue: A False Conception of Politeia -- 2. Society as a Rational Choice -- 3. The returns on the social contract -- 4. The returns on the social contract -- 5. The economy and society -- 6. On the conception of Liberty -- 7. On the conception of Liberty -- 8. A Brief note on the Organic...

James Buchanan would have celebrated his 100th birthday in 2019. This serves as an inspiration to look at the future of public choice and the question of how much normativity public choice can bear. In our analysis we draw parallels between public choice and German ordoliberalism (and its source...

The economic tradition of ordoliberalism, understood as the theoretical and policy ideas of the Freiburg School, emerged in 1930s and 1940s Germany. In the years thereafter, it was quickly superseded by Keynesianism and other theories imported from the English-speaking world. The crisis in...

James Buchanan would have celebrated his 100th birthday in 2019. This serves as an inspiration to look at the future of public choice and the question of how much normativity public choice can bear. In our analysis we draw parallels between public choice and German ordoliberalism (and its source...

In the 1950s, Jacques Rueff’s references to social order seem pretty clear: it is not a spontaneous phenomena. Although Rueff is generally seen as a liberal economist, this has prompted commentators to see in his approach something more artificial than Hayek’s own ideas on social order....

Ordoliberalism and Keynesianism are not exactly known to fit hand in glove. Accordingly, the German economists Walter Eucken, head of the Freiburg school, and Wilhelm Röpke, from his Istanbul and Geneva exiles, were in near perfect agreement in their opposition to the interventionist "full...

This article presents and discusses New Ordoliberalism, implemented though the introduction of Universal Basic Income, as such an alternative approach within economic policy to handle the global challenges of the 21th century, like increasing inequality. New Ordoliberalism develops the basic...

This article pursues two goals. First, to reflect on how <italic>historical Ordnungsökonomik</italic> (Economics of Order) illuminates the politico-economic crises in today's Western democracies via the increasing parallels to the fragilities and fractures of the 1930s. Second, based on these historical...

What is the appropriate role of the state in economic policy-making? This paper shows that Friedrich Hayek, who is often considered a proponent of laissez-faire liberalism, offers three different answers to this problem. First, Hayek argues that the state should provide a legal framework for...

The past few years have seen the opening of several antitrust investigations against some of the most dominant and powerful companies in the world – e.g., the U.S. Department of Justice, numerous states, and the Federal Trade Commission have sued Google, Facebook, and Amazon, and the E.U. has...

Walter Eucken was one of the main representatives of the Freiburg School of Law and Economics and German ‘neoliberalism’, also known as Ordoliberalism. This chapter portrays and analyses Eucken’s life and work as well as his Ordoliberal legacy. It begins by taking a closer look at...

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...

Dies ist die Abtrittsvorlesung des Autors nach dreißigjähriger (1992-2022) Tätigkeit als Professor für Volkswirtschaftslehre an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Er will am Beispiel der Europäischen Währungsunion die wirtschafts- und politiktheoretische Fruchtbarkeit der aus seiner Sicht...

This paper analyses the early years of the history of the Bundesbank from a history of economic thought-perspective. The study uses the example of Bernhard Benning, who was heading the Economics Department of the Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft, one major banks owned by the German Reich during the...

Abstract: Meine Dissertation stellt eine historische Rekonstruktion der Krisenforschung der ordoliberalen Ökonomen Wilhelm Röpke, Walter Eucken und Friedrich A. Lutz in der Zwischenkriegszeit dar. Eine solche Rekonstruktion ist notwendig, da seit der Eurokrise im Jahre 2010 die Gefahr bestand,...

Homann's method is a sophisticated theoretical model. As a result, it contains a normative foundation upon which Homann bases his endeavor, as well as numerous conclusions following his positive analysis. We propose extensions to both the normative and positive aspects of Homann's theory in this...

In the discussion about a universal basic income, the dimension of conditionality comes up frequently in the context of work requirements for social security policies. In these exchanges one aspect that comes up frequently is the costs of a universal social policy. In this article we apply a...

The economic tradition of ordoliberalism, understood as the theoretical and policy ideas of the Freiburg School, emerged in 1930s and 1940s Germany. In the years thereafter, it was quickly superseded by Keynesianism and other theories imported from the English-speaking world. The crisis in...

Economic freedom plays a decisive role in both the Freiburg school and the Austrian school. Owing to the different theoretical traditions, the lines of argumentation also vary. The Freiburg school refers to Kant’s moral philosophy and connects Kant with Adam Smith, linking the theory with the...

L’Europe a fait le choix du libéralisme à travers l’adoption d’un ordre économique et social : « l’économie sociale de marché ». Ce livre raconte l’histoire de ce choix décisif pour l’européanisation des sociétés. Du marché commun à l’euro, cette convergence...