This book analyzes both the biographical and theoretical relations between the Freiburg school of economics and Höffner's thinking as it represents Christian social teaching. The focus lies on the question of how it is possible to develop a social theory which is economically sound, ethically...

If there can be no simple going back to the old constitutional economics, what then could a new constitutional economics be like, one which is connected explicitly to international discourses but at the same time considers itself to be in the tradition of Eucken, Böhm and Röpke? This is the...