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.
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
Savignys relativism and the laissez faire liberalism 14: Walter Eucken and
the refoundation of economic science. Against Gustav Schmollers historicism
15: The social question and the Vitalpolitik between nature and history
Olimpia Malatesta is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History of Political Thought at the Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna, Italy.
