Ordoliberalism is often accused as being responsible for Germany's policy stance during the Eurozone crisis … University of Freiburg, which is in fact in Germany. It is however neither true that ordoliberal thought has continuously been … predominant and a prevailing idea in German macroeconomic policy, nor that it is responsible for Germany's policy stance during …

–“natural rate theory”- dominated interpretations of economic trends and policy prescriptions since the 1970s. Public policy …. Economic trends were filtered through the lens of the “natural rate theory,” focusing on labor market institutions only and … confronts the economic trends with the interpretations of the “natural rate theory” and argues that they hardly fitting the …