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Ordoliberalism is a theoretical and cultural tradition of significant societal and political impact in post-war Germany. For a long time the theory was only known outside Germany by a handful of experts, but ordoliberalism has now moved centre stage after the advent of the financial crisis, and has become widely perceived as the ideational source of Germany's crisis politics. In this collection, the contributors engage in a multi-faceted exploration of the conceptual history of ordoliberalism, the premises of its founding fathers in law and economics, its religious underpinnings, the debates over its theoretical assumptions and political commitments, and its formative vision of societal ordering based upon a synthesis of economic theories and legal concepts. The renewal of that vision through the ordoliberal conceptualisation of the European integration project, the challenges of the current European crisis, and the divergent perceptions of ordoliberalism within Germany and by its northern and southern EU neighbours, are a common concern of all these endeavours. They unfold interdisciplinary affinities and misunderstandings, cultural predispositions and prejudices, and political preferences and cleavages. By examining European traditions through the lens of ordoliberalism, the book illustrates the diversity of European economic cultures, and the difficulty of transnational political exchanges, in a time of European crisis

Economic policy --- Law and economics --- Liberalism --- Ordoliberalism

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Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level.Slobodian begins in Austria in the 1920s. Empires were dissolving and nationalism, socialism, and democratic self-determination threatened the stability of the global capitalist system. In response, Austrian intellectuals called for a new way of organizing the world. But they and their successors in academia and government, from such famous economists as Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises to influential but lesser-known figures such as Wilhelm Röpke and Michael Heilperin, did not propose a regime of laissez-faire. Rather they used states and global institutions--the League of Nations, the European Court of Justice, the World Trade Organization, and international investment law--to insulate the markets against sovereign states, political change, and turbulent democratic demands for greater equality and social justice.Far from discarding the regulatory state, neoliberals wanted to harness it to their grand project of protecting capitalism on a global scale. It was a project, Slobodian shows, that changed the world, but that was also undermined time and again by the inequality, relentless change, and social injustice that accompanied it.

Globalization --- Neoliberalism --- Capitalism --- History --- European Economic Community. --- Friedrich Hayek. --- GATT. --- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. --- Gottfried Haberler. --- League of Nations. --- Lionel Robbins. --- Ludwig von Mises. --- Michael Heilperin. --- Mont Pelerin Society. --- WTO. --- Wilhelm Ropke. --- World Trade Organization. --- ordoliberalism.

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Walter Eucken est la figure centrale de la pensée ordolibérale allemande et fait paraître « Le problème politique de l’Ordre » (1948) dans le premier numéro de la revue Ordojahrbuch. Remettant en cause le concept historiciste et marxiste de capitalisme, ce long article redéfinit les fondements de l’économie politique. Pour ce faire, il recourt au concept d’ordre. Ce concept est un outil épistémologique permettant une typologie des modes d’interaction entre le politique et l’économique, ainsi que la définition d’une organisation sociétale idéale. L’ordre idéal est alors celui qui garantit au mieux la liberté des individus. Il repose sur un ordre économique concurrentiel ancré dans un cadre institutionnel créé et entretenu par l’État. Introduisant la lecture de cet article traduit en français par les auteurs, le livre retrace la genèse et le développement de la pensée économique de Walter Eucken, à la croisée des chemins entre économie politique, philosophie, droit et histoire. Walter Eucken is the key figure of the German Ordoliberal thinking. He published a seminal paper in the German Journal Ordojahrbuch entitled “The political problem of Ordo” (1948). Questioning both the Marxist and the historicist analyses of capitalism, he built new foundations for political economy. The concept of Ordo is a convenient epistemological tool to analyse different types of interactions between politics and economics. It also aims at developing an ideal organisation of society as a whole. In Eucken’s ideal political order, the main role of the State is to create and then to maintain the institutional framework for a well-functioning competitive market which is supposed to be the best way to guarantee the greatest individual freedom. This book provides a long introduction to Eucken’s paper of 1948, translated into French by the authors. At the crossroads of political economy, philosophy, law and history, the book outlines the genesis and development of Walter Eucken’s political and…

Eucken, Walter --- Ordolibéralisme --- Libéralisme économique --- 330.580 --- Gecontroleerde economie. Geleide economie. Welvaarststaat. Algemeenheden --- Economics --- économie politique --- économie politique et histoire --- histoire de la pensée économique allemande --- néolibéralisme --- ordolibéralisme --- history of german economic thought --- neoliberalism --- ordoliberalism --- political economy --- political economy and history