Ever since the global financial crisis of 2008, interpreted by some observers as a foreseeable failure of "unfettered" capitalism, the German intellectual tradition of ordoliberalism has been meeting with increased interest. Its emphasis on good government, appropriate rules and institutions...

Bei diesem Beitrag handelt es sich um die Schriftfassung der Fünften Wilhelm-Röpke-Vorlesung, die die Leiterin des Hauptstadtbüros des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln, Dr. Karen Horn, am 10. Februar 2011 in der Thüringer Aufbaubank in Erfurt gehalten hat. Die jährlich am 12....

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 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...