The continuing discussion about the future of the social market economy is producing new headlines daily with detailed suggestions for the restructuring of our economic and socio-political system. A fundamental conceptional analysis of this subject has however not been done up to the present....

This volume documents the papers given at the symposium on 'Freiburg Economists and the Resistance', which was held in July 2004, 60 years after the plot to assassinate Hitler, and which dealt with the role Freiburg economists played in the resistance against the Nazi-Regime in the surrounding...

Using the original texts, this collection of essays provides an introduction to the Freiburg tradition of constitutional economics. The texts chosen convey the central meaning and the positions of this tradition. Each individual text has been provided with a detailed introduction and a...

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...

This is the first German language collection of essays by Viktor J. Vanberg, one of the most important advocates of modern constitutional economics. The essays deal with fundamental theoretical and normative issues of economic and political order. (Published in German.)

The purpose of this volume is to remember the life and works of Hans Großmann-Doerth. In addition to introductory comments about his relationship to the Freiburg School, it contains the first comprehensive biographical portrayal as well as a systematic analysis of central questions. (Published...

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...

Mit dem garstig breiten Graben beschrieb Gotthold Ephraim Lessing sein Unbehagen über den Hiatus von zufälligen Geschichtswahrheiten und notwendigen Vernunftwahrheiten, den zu schließen er sich außer Stande sah: Das, das ist der garstig breite Graben, über den ich nicht kommen kann, so oft...