Der Neoliberalismus ist in aller Munde. Gerne wird ihm alles Krisenhafte in der globalen
Ökonomie angelastet, jüngst auch die neue Instabilität der westlichen Demokratien. Zu …

The German intellectual tradition of ordoliberalism, a variant of neoliberalism particularly
committed to a “functional and humane order,” was long ignored in the Anglo-Saxon world …

This book is based on my Ph. D. thesis “Reinventing Liberalism—Early Neoliberalism in
Context (1920–1947)”, defended at the European University Institute in Florence in …

Having emerged in the 1930s and 1940s as the German variety of neoliberalism, the
ordoliberal perspective on economics provides an intriguing set of politicoeconomic …

Walter Eucken is mostly known for his impact on establishing the Social Market Economy in
post-war Germany. In this paper we identify how Eucken was highly influential in the …

This paper embeds the early political economy of Friedrich August von Hayek in the
intellectual milieu of German ordoliberalism. The urgency during the 1930s and 1940s to …

The 'thinking in orders'–German as it may sound rhetorically–can be identified in other
neoliberalisms. The ordoliberal topos of power was related to these ethical considerations …

This essay pursues one historical and one conceptual task. The historical task is to
reconstruct the “thinking-in-orders” tradition in political economy as a contextual approach to …

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 …

This paper contextualizes the early political economy of Austrian economist and social
philosopher FA Hayek in the intellectual milieu of German ordoliberalism. It argues that the …