James M. Buchanan's contributions of 2009-2011 to the post-crisis debate in political economy emphasized the necessity to re-examine the legacy of the “Old Chicago” School. The focus of the current paper is, by following Buchanan's plea, to explore the central topoi in the 1930s debates of...

This paper depicts the co-evolution of the political economies of the "Old Chicago" and Freiburg Schools. These communities within the "laissez-faire within rules" research program and the long-standing "thinking-inorders" tradition emerged in the 1930s and culminated in the 1940s into a...

Während der klassische ökonomische Liberalismus die Wohlstandsinteressen der Bürger gegenüber einem nicht demokratisch legitimierten Herrscher vertrat, wenden sich die modernen Varianten des Liberalismus an den Bürger als Souverän der Gesetzgebung. Das klassische Modell verliert unter...