Ordoliberalism, State and Society

This book provides a new interpretation of ordoliberalism - the influential German version of neoliberalism - by exploring the political, legal, and social context of its emergence.

Autorentext

Olimpia Malatesta is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History of Political Thought at the Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna, Italy.

Zusammenfassung
This book provides a new interpretation of ordoliberalism the influential German version of neoliberalism by exploring the political, legal, and social context of its emergence.

Inhalt

Part I: The Economy 1: The Weimar Republic between economic crisis and bureaucratization 2: Werner Sombart and the end of capitalism 3: Walter Eucken and the crisis of capitalism. On Sombart and Schumpeter 4: Wilhelm Röpke on the secular crisis of capitalism 5: Alfred Müller-Armack and the laws of capitalist development Part II: The State 6: The Wirtschaftsverfassung and the constitutional compromise of Weimar 7: Franz Böhm against Hugo Sinzheimer and the social democratic compromise 8: From the liberal state to the economic state 9: The collapse of religion and the affirmation of the total state 10: Walter Eucken, Carl Schmitt and the intermingling of state and society 11: The criticism of pluralism and the strong state. Carl Schmitt, Alexander Rüstow and authoritarian liberalism 12: Alfred Müller-Armack, the criticism of liberalism and the corporatist state Part III: The Society 13: The refoundation of the juridical. Against Savigny's relativism and the laissez faire liberalism 14: Walter Eucken and the refoundation of economic science. Against Gustav Schmoller's historicism 15: The social question and the Vitalpolitik between nature and history