Die vorliegende Abhandlung bereitet erstmals systematisch das Verhaltnis von Rechtsordnung und Wirtschaftsordnung nach der Theorie der Interdependenz der Ordnungen von Walter Eucken auf. Die meisten ...Juristen werden Walter Eucke noch mit dem Ordoliberalismus in Verbindung bringen, manche der Freiburger Schule zuordnen, die wenigsten jedoch seine 'Grundsatze der Wirtschaftspolitik' oder gar seine juristisch nicht minder gehaltvollen 'Grundlagen der Nationalokonomie' gelesen haben. Gerade die ersteren jedoch - sein nachgelassenes Hauptwerk - bilden nicht nur fur Okonomen, sondern auch fur Juristen eine uberaus anregende Lekture. Jedem Juristen, vor allem jedem Wirtschaftsrechtler, sollte eine beilaufige Beobachtung zu denken geben, die Walter Eucken in seinen 'Grundlagen der Nationalokonomie' angestellt hat: Werden der Wissenschaft in zwei Jahrtausenden nur unsere wichtigsten Rechtsnormen bekannt sein, so wird sie von unserer Wirtschaftsordnung kein wirkliches Bild gewinnen .
Walter Eucken is mostly known for his impact on establishing the Social Market Economy in post-war Germany. In this paper we identify how Eucken was highly influential in the formation of the Mont ...Pèlerin Society (MPS), and how German ordoliberalism left a significant footprint on the early history of the MPS. To show this organizational cooperation, we primarily analyze Eucken’s correspondence with F. A. Hayek and Wilhelm Röpke. In a next step, we portray their intellectual debates 1945–1950 and again extensively draw on correspondence, as well as on traces of influences in publications in the fields of methodology and epistemology. Subsequently, we reconstruct the first MPS meetings between 1947 and 1949 and identify notable substantive overlaps, but also a widening gap between a Continental and an Anglo-Saxon understanding of neoliberalism – despite the pronounced personal friendship and esteem between Eucken and Hayek. Finally, we present personal memories of Leonhard Miksch, a student and associate of Eucken who attended the 1949 MPS meeting, recorded in his so far unpublished diary.
Aunque la escuela historica alemana y el institucionalismo americano son los principales los antecedentes de la nueva economia institucional, otras escuelas–como el ordoliberalismo aleman– tambien ...ejercieron una posible influencia en el neoinstitucionalismo Este articulo explora sus puntos comunes, con base en la obrade Walter Eucken, cuya propuesta de politica economica coincide, aunque con ciertos matices, con la de Coase, North y Williamson, fundadores de la nueva economía institucional, en la necesidad de un Estado que establezca un orden basado en una estructura de normas e instituciones que permita el correcto funcionamiento del mercado competitivo, en el caracter multidisciplinario de sus estudios, en el rechazo de los monopolios y grupos de interes que controlan el Estado y en el papel de la empresa como organismo planificador que rivaliza con el Estado.
Ordoliberalism is a German economic and legal doctrine, in which ethics occupies a privileged place. The basic premise is the freedom and responsibility of human beings. In contrast, the starting ...point for considering ordoliberalism as a doctrine is the economic, social and political order. The most prominent representative of this doctrine was Walter Eucken. Achievements of this outstanding economist, and other representatives of this school underlay the concept of the German social market economy and EU competition policy. The aim of this article is to present the concept of Eucken’s competitive order and describe its philosophical and ethical foundation. The article uses the method of descriptive analysis and literature studies.
Walras as an ordoliberal? Baranzini, Roberto; Fèvre, Raphaël
The European journal of the history of economic thought,
03/2019, Volume:
26, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Léon Walras and the ordoliberals share the opinion that State intervention in favour of a competitive order is a central element of economic policy. Hence, can Walras be regarded as a forerunner of ...ordoliberalism? This study performs a methodological and ontological analysis of Walras' and Eucken's thoughts and sheds light on another common ground: philosophical idealism. By taking different inclinations - Walras' Teleological Realism vs Eucken's Historicist Conceptualism - these authors reveal different relations with reality and methodological stances, which result in opposing philosophies of History. Paradoxically, by revealing tenuous epistemological bonds, we set a new distance between Walras and the ordoliberals.
Die sieben Beiträge befassen sich mit der Geschichte der Entwicklungstheorien von deren Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Diese Geschichte hat zu einem beträchtlichen Teil Wurzeln im deutschen Schrifttum. ...Behandelt werden entwicklungstheoretische Ansätze in Deutschland in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts von Friedrich List bis zur Historischen Schule, Werner Sombarts Sicht des technischen Fortschritts als treibender Kraft kapitalistischer Expansion im Vergleich mit den Sichtweisen Arthur Spiethoffs und Joseph A. Schumpeters, die Rolle externer Ersparnisse in den Analysen von Alfred Marshall bis zu John Chipman und Paul Krugman, das Prinzip der kumulativen und zirkulären Verursachung bei Gunnar Myrdal und Paul Krugman, die Theorien ausgewogenen bzw. unausgewogenen Wachstums bei Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, Ragnar Nurkse und W. Arthur Lewis bzw. bei Albert O. Hirschman und Paul Streeten sowie entwicklungstheoretische Vorstellungen im deutschen Ordoliberalismus, insbesondere im Werk Walter Euckens.»History of Development Theories« The seven essays in this volume deal with the history of development theories from their beginnings up until today. It is shown that this history has remarkable roots in the German literature of the nineteenth century. The authors dealt with in depth include Friedrich List, Werner Sombart, Joseph Schumpeter, Alfred Marshall, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, Walter Eucken, Arthur W. Nurkse, Gunnar Myrdal and Paul Krugman.
Germany’s Social Market Economy has been in the limelight recently as a variant of modern capitalism, different from the Anglo-American model. Starting from this debate this article goes back to the ...ideas of the Freiburg School of Economics in the immediate post-1945 period whose representatives, Walter Eucken prominently among them, emerged from the Nazi period with concepts of how to organise a modern industrial economy that they called ‘ordoliberal’. Their writings are then connected, but also contrasted, with the policies of Ludwig Erhard, West Germany’s first economics minister, who, being under many domestic and foreign pressures, adapted the principles of economic management of the Freiburg School to the realities of the 1950s and 1960s. The article is written in the hope of stimulating debate on Germany’s Social Market Economy, past and present.
ABSTRACT IN FRENCH: Soutenue par l'Union Européenne, l'ouverture à la concurrence des chemins de fer en Europe a entraîné un environnement complexe où se mêlent des opérateurs historiques nationaux ...et des nouveaux entrants. Certains pays de l'Union, comme en Allemagne, accompagnent ces développements concurrentiels et sont même en avance. D'autres Etats membres expriment des difficultés pour mettre en oeuvre ces réformes, comme par exemple en France. Il y a une centaine d'années, la thèse (1914) de W. Eucken, l'un des économistes allemands les plus influents, décrit la difficile émergence de la concurrence dans le transport maritime international, les jeux des acteurs nationaux, les cartels et les méthodes pour éliminer les nouveaux entrants. L'objectif de cet article est de tenter de tirer les enseignements de ce travail de jeunesse remarquable pour le transport maritime au début du XXème siècle et de suggérer un transfert pour comprendre les développements du transport ferroviaire aujourd'hui. // ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: Following European guidelines, railway in Europe is experiencing today competition within a complicated structure mixing historical national operators and newcomers. Some countries of the European Union, for example Germany, are welcoming this development of competitive pressures. Some countries have difficulties to implement successfully the competitive framework of the European Union, for example France for regional railway passenger transport. One hundred years ago, the Ph-D of Walter Eucken (1914), one of the highly influential German Economist, described the difficult start of competition, national behaviors, cartels and elimination of newcomers in world maritime navigation. This work is considered as one of the best scholarly publications on transport economics before 1914. The aim of this paper is to draw lessons from Eucken's analysis of emerging competition in maritime transportation and suggest a transfer of his precise and undoubtedly modern analysis to today's rail developments and emerging competition. Reprinted by permission of the editor
This paper explores the various personal and intellectual links between Edmund Husserl, Rudolf and Walter Eucken. Our interdisciplinary approach gives an insight into Husserl's transcendental ...phenomenology, Walter Eucken's Ordoliberalism as well as in the interdependency between phenomenology and economics for which Rudolf Eucken's philosophy of intellectual life plays an important role. Particular affiliations between phenomenology and economics can be found in the following topics: epistemology, the idea of man, the comprehension of liberty and the importance of legal or social orders, institutional rules and frameworks of regulations.
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