The relationship between France and Germany is still a complex one, and the French perception of the social market economy is a perfect example of the ambivalence that both nations feel towards each other. Already a short glance at the history of economics - from the physiocrates to Keynes and...

Der vorliegende Beitrag fragt nach der Rolle buergerlicher Werte in der Theorie und Praxis der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft. Dabei wird dargestellt, inwiefern die Ideen der Vordenker des Ordoliberalismus und der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft im „buergerlichen Wertekanon“ als normativem Hintergrund...

Der vorliegende Beitrag beschaeftigt sich sowohl aus ideengeschichtlicher als auch aus wirtschafts- und sozialgeschichtlicher Perspektive mit den Konzeptionen der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft und der Sozialen Gerechtigkeit. Dabei wird dargestellt, wie versucht wurde, die zentralen...

The ordo-liberal inspired Social Market Economy that emerged from west German economists and lawyers of the second half of the 1940s has perhaps attracted more attention in the international academic debate. Than prior to the financial crisis that became obvious to a wider public in 2008. Prior...

The idea of an “economic constitution” was developed by a group of German economists and lawyers in the Weimar Republic which sought a “third way” – the “ordo-liberal way” – between laissez-faire liberalism and socialist politics. Ordo-liberalism survived the Third Reich...

В главе учебника по экономической компаративистике осуществляется сравнение реального с виртуальным, показываются единство и различия старой и новой...

In this paper I portray 'neo-liberalism' in its original conceptual meaning as opposed to the generic term of depreciation as which it is commonly used. I identify fair competition and the denial of all privilege as the major concerns of original neo-liberals. Ethical merit for competition...

In this paper I portray "neo-liberalism" in its original conceptual meaning as opposed to the generic term of depreciation as which it is commonly used. I identify fair competition and the denial of all privilege as the major concerns of original neo-liberals. Ethical merit for competition...

Today we have a paradoxical situation in Germany's public debates on the order of society and economy. The absolute majority of all voters blame the state for a neoliberal economic and social policy, but the state gives up more and more ordnungspolitische ideas. If we look for causes for the...