Walter Eucken was the head of the Freiburg school of economics, a circle of German ordoliberal scholars of the interwar period, whose thoughts were highly influential in the immediate post war period. Being disillusioned by what he called the "age of experiments"- the failure of both classical...

German policy during the Eurozone crisis supposedly follows an ordoliberal tradition. In this paper, we discuss to what extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper analysis of ordoliberal thinking reveals that the...

German policy during the Eurozone crisis supposedly follows an ordoliberal tradition. In this paper, we discuss to what extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper analysis of ordoliberal thinking reveals that the...

Diese Arbeit untersucht den Einfluss von neoliberalen Ideen auf die Ausgestaltung der Wirtschaftsordnung Westdeutschlands in der Ära Adenauer (1948-1963). Im Fokus steht dabei im ersten Schritt eine Netzwerkanalyse der mit Westdeutschland befassten Mitglieder der Mont Pèlerin Society (MPS)....