The paper analyzes the political economy of capitalist transformation in Germany during the first half of the 19th century. Current approaches in institutional economics stress the dependency of economic and political institutions in 'open access orders', which makes economic freedom without...

The purpose of this book is to reconsider economic liberalism from the viewpoint of political liberalism. The author argues that advocates of economic liberalism largely overlook empirical political preferences which, in many societies, go far beyond a limited role of the state. Recent...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht Legitimationsfragen ordnungspolitischer Empfehlungen in der Demokratie. Waehrend die klassische Ordnungspolitik in der Tradition Walter Euckens die Legitimation ordnungspolitischer Regeln mit dem gesellschaftlichen Wohlfahrtsgewinn begruendet, muss in der Demokratie die...