The Evolution of Ordoliberalism in the Light of the Ordo Yearbook: A Bibliometric Analysis

Bönker, Frank; Labrousse, Agnès; Weisz, Jean-Daniel

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“…Formative for this definition are the participants of two conferences who targeted the deficiencies of the nineteenth century and discussed what a new liberalism viable in the twentieth century could look like: the Colloque Walter Lippmann in Paris in 1938 and the founding meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society at Lake Geneva in 1947. 8 6 For earlier expositions of Hayek's proximity to ordoliberalism, see especially Streit and Wohlgemuth (2000); Watrin (2000); Bönker and Wagener (2001); Renner (2002); Vanberg (2003); Wohlgemuth (2013); Zweynert (2013);and Dyson (2021). Kolev (2010) contains some of the arguments of this paper.…”

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When Liberty Presupposes Order: F. A. Hayek’s Contextual Ordoliberalism

Kolev

2023

J Hist Econ Thought

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This paper embeds the early political economy of Friedrich August von Hayek in the intellectual milieu of German ordoliberalism. The urgency during the 1930s and 1940s to stabilize the disintegrating societal orders is identified as a crucial driver behind the parallelisms between Hayek and the ordoliberals. Their shared theoretical position is that in such moments, liberty can thrive sustainably only after a framework of general and stable rules has been established. Hayek’s proximity to ordoliberalism was most explicitly discernible in The Road to Serfdom and at the founding meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society in 1947, culminating in the shared politico-economic vision of the competitive order. The contextual nature of Hayek’s ordoliberalism surfaced in the years after The Constitution of Liberty when his focus shifted, along with the postwar intellectual and institutional stabilization of the West: from how stable orders enable liberty, to how liberty enables the evolution of orders.

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“… 6 For earlier expositions of Hayek’s proximity to ordoliberalism, see especially Streit and Wohlgemuth (2000); Watrin (2000); Bönker and Wagener (2001); Renner (2002); Vanberg (2003); Wohlgemuth (2013); Zweynert (2013); and Dyson (2021). Kolev (2010) contains some of the arguments of this paper. …”

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When Liberty Presupposes Order: F. A. Hayek’s Contextual Ordoliberalism

Kolev

2023

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“…By focusing on Hayek's proximity to ordoliberal political economy in the 1930s and 1940s as well as his later shift away from 5 In the same period, Hayek elaborated in greater detail on the emergence of the "new traditions" of "the new liberal school" as they had come about "independently of the others": in London around Edwin Cannan and Lionel Robbins, in Vienna around Ludwig von Mises, in Chicago around Frank Knight and Henry Simons and in Freiburg around Walter Eucken, leading to what he called "a neo-liberal movement" (Hayek [1951(Hayek [ ] 1967. 6 For earlier expositions on the proximity of Hayek to ordoliberalism, see especially Streit and Wohlgemuth (2000), Watrin (2000), Bönker and Wagener (2001), Renner (2002), Vanberg (2003), Wohlgemuth (2013) and Dyson (2021). Kolev (2010) contains some of the arguments of this paper.…”

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When Liberty Presupposes Order: F. A. Hayek’s Contextual Ordoliberalism

Kolev

2024

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This paper embeds the early political economy of F. A. Hayek in the intellectual milieu of German ordoliberalism. The urgency during the 1930s and 1940s to stabilize the disintegrating societal orders is identified as a crucial driver behind the parallelisms between Hayek and the ordoliberals. Their shared theoretical position is that in such moments, liberty can thrive sustainably only after a framework of general and stable rules has been established. Hayek’s proximity to ordoliberalism was most explicitly discernible in The Road to Serfdom and at the founding meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society in 1947, culminating in the shared politico-economic vision of the competitive order. The contextual nature of Hayek’s ordoliberalism surfaced in the years after The Constitution of Liberty when his focus shifted, along with the postwar intellectual and institutional stabilization of the West: from how stable orders enable liberty to how liberty enables the evolution of orders.

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“…The only true difference is that Eucken presents a theory of power, while von Hayek presents a theory of knowledge. Finally, Bönker and Wagener (2001) again emphasize the differences between a self-generating, spontaneous formation of order and a political artifact-order. In addition to referring to the role of the state and the agenda of economic policy, they refer to the philosophy of science aspects resulting from the diverging, underlying leitmotifs already mentioned in the two essays by Streit and Wohlgemuth.…”

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“…Coming back once again to the literature review on the current state of research, what becomes clear is the fact that theories of justice are more or less neglected. Only a few paragraphs are dedicated to this topic (see Bönker and Wagener 2001, pp. 190–191; Streit and Wohlgemuth 2000a, pp.…”

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Von Hayek and Ordoliberalism on Justice

Wörsdörfer¹

2013

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Many scholars and scientists have dealt with Ordoliberalism and von Hayek at great length and compared in particular the socio-economic theories of Walter Eucken and Friedrich August von Hayek.2 To name just a few: Watrin (2000) analyzes the varying concepts of the state and government tasks. According to him, Eucken as a member of the Freiburg School of Law and Economics is favouring -more or less -a deliberately designed and 'made'(constructivist) order while von Hayek on the other hand is highly in favour of an evolutionary, 'grown' (spontaneous) order (i.e. constructivist rationalism vs.evolutionary/critical rationalism; see Hayek 1973). Streit andWohlgemuth (2000a and2000b) in turn point at the diverging leitmotifs underlying the conceptions of von Hayek and Eucken:In the centre of Ordoliberalism is the topic of private power or -to put it differently -the question of how to avoid, eliminate or at least reduce the concentration of power in the economic and political sphere. To the contrary, von Hayek is not so much concerned with the problem of power as with the epistemological topic of knowledge. To be more precise: His major concern is the division or fragmentation of widely dispersed knowledge which can be utilized via competitive market processes operating as a discovery procedure. A similar approach as in Streit andWohlgemuth (2000a and2000b) and Watrin (2000) is presented by (2001) are again emphasizing the differences between a self-generating, spontaneous formation of order and a political artefact-order. Besides the role of the state and the agenda of economic policy, they are referring to philosophy of science-aspects resulting from the diverging underlying leitmotifs already mentioned in the two essays by Streit and Wohlgemuth.In retrospect, it is striking that most of the just mentioned subsequent interpretations are highlighting the parallels while the differences are either of minor importance, as in the work focuses on the topic of justice and elaborates the (slightly) differing conceptions of justice within neoliberalism. Thus, the specific contribution of the paper is that it fills the gap and that it adds a further, a sixth dimension of differences (which is highly interconnected with the already mentioned differing conceptions of genesis of norms). To put it differently: In the Social Justice as a 'Weasel-Word'? Von Hayek on Justice"It is now necessary clearly to distinguish between two wholly different problems which the demand for 'social justice' raises in a market order. The first is whether within an economic order based on the market the concept of 'social justice' has any meaning or content whatever. The second is whether it is possible to preserve a market order while imposing upon it (in the name of 'social justice' or any other pretext) some pattern of remuneration based on the assessment of the performance or the needs of different individuals or groups by an authority possessing the power to enforce it. The answer to each of these questions is a clear no" (Hayek 1976: pp....

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The Evolution of Ordoliberalism in the Light of the Ordo Yearbook: A Bibliometric Analysis

Cited by 24 publications

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When Liberty Presupposes Order: F. A. Hayek’s Contextual Ordoliberalism

When Liberty Presupposes Order: F. A. Hayek’s Contextual Ordoliberalism

When Liberty Presupposes Order: F. A. Hayek’s Contextual Ordoliberalism

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