Water in the desert? The influence of Wilhelm Röpke on Ludwig Erhard and the social market economy

Mierzejewski, Alfred C.

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“…Full employment was marginalized in the policy debate (Wallich 1955: 82-83;Wadbrook 1972: 61). Ludwig Erhard , responsible for German economic policy until 1963, and Chancellor until 1966, was supported, and partly inspired, by the so-called Ordoliberismus (Mierzejewski 2006;Giersch 1992: 34), on which we shall return. The fundamentalist free market choices of the late 1940s were criticized by the American and British authorities and economists (e.g.…”

Section: Monetary Mercantilismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Germany and the European and Global Crises

Cesaratto

Stirati²

2010

International Journal of Political Economy

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Moving from the current global and European imbalances and crises, and from the consideration of the German reaction to them, the paper explores the political economy origins of the conservative German policy stance. It emerges that an export-oriented economy was a deliberate decision of the German elite after WW II and that the external constraint may be regarded as appropriately designed for internal discipline and efficiency (and vice-versa) in a self-reinforcing process. The conclusions illustrate some possible future scenarios for Europe.

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Section: Monetary Mercantilismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Germany and the European and Global Crises

Cesaratto

Stirati²

2010

International Journal of Political Economy

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“…But it all came to naught: to FDP party leader Mende's dismay, Erhard failed to seize the moment to run against Adenauer when Adenauer asked him and Gersteinmaier to their face if they were considering doing so. 31 Having won this game of chicken, Adenauer managed to scrape by in the long and tense period of coalition formation. He flirted with the SPD for a while to tone down the intransigent FDP, but failed to reach agreement.…”

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“…35 Mierzejewski argues moreover that Erhard in his mid-sixties hardly matched the energy and zest that Adenauer had displayed in his late seventies. 36 He was often tired and spent ever longer and more frequent vacations in his house on Lake Tegern in Bavaria.…”

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How Adenauer Lost Power: Understanding Leadership Rivalry and Succession Conflict in Political Parties

Hart

2007

German Politics

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However good and powerful they may be, all leaders have a limited 'sell-by' date. Political power can never be monopolised indefinitely or unconditionally. However steep the summit of the political hierarchy may be, a leader must maintain sufficient support among the crucial power centres in the society he is governing. Any political leader serves at the mercy of powerful interest groups: his extended family, his ethnic clan, business leaders, the military, party elders, ideological or regional factions within the party, and so on. When these power centres lose faith in a leader, envy him his success, or sense that his once iron fist is weakening, sooner or later his position will be on the line. In theory, democracies provide intelligent institutional rules for periodic leader succession, yet, as Michels and later theorists imply, 1 in practice many successions are not the product of election results. Moreover, many leadership successions do not unfold

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“…Après 1945, les ordolibéraux -minoritaires dans le paysage des débats économiques allemands -bénéficient de circonstances favorables qui leur permettent de gagner un rôle de premier plan dans la nouvelle République fédérale. Dans un contexte de refondation et de développement rapide de la science économique (Nützenadel, 2005 ;Nörr, 1999), leurs idées sont favorisées par les pouvoirs occupants américains, et à partir de 1948 par le nouveau ministre de l'Économie Ludwig Erhard, qui revendique sa proximité avec les auteurs ordolibéraux (Commun, 2003 ;Mierzejewski, 2006). Il attribue à sa politique -résumée par le mot d'ordre d'économie sociale de marché, forgé par l'économiste et sociologue Alfred Müller-Armack (1947) -le « miracle économique » allemand (Spicka, 2007).…”

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Walter Eucken à Paris ?

Canihac¹

2017

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revue européenne des sciences sociales n o 55-2 -p. 237-263Résumé. Au sein de l'importante littérature qui s'est consacrée ces dernières années à l'exploration des origines intellectuelles des politiques économiques européennes, peu de doctrines ont suscité autant d'intérêt que ce qu'il est convenu d'appeler l'ordolibéralisme allemand. Cet article voudrait inviter à réinterroger la carrière internationale des idées ordolibérales et le récit, souvent quelque peu linéaire, de leur diffusion lente de l' Allemagne à l'Europe. Nous examinerons pour cela l'introduction des idées ordolibérales en France, c'est-à-dire les processus qui leur ont permis de circuler, d'être reçues et discutées dès les années 1950. L'enquête est appuyée sur la collecte de l'archive de cette circulation - traductions, préfaces, comptes rendus, commentaires, etc. -, sur l'identification des configurations d'acteurs impliqués, et sur le repérage des usages qu'ils déploient de ces idées. Nous montrerons ainsi que les idées ordolibérales sont connues en France plus largement que le récit traditionnel ne le laisse penser. Mais, tout en les naturalisant dans le contexte français, cela contribue à les distinguer des usages qu'elles recevaient dans le contexte allemand. La circulation des idées ordolibérales vers la France est donc précoce, mais elle se fait par une hybridation avec les débats économiques français.Mots-clés : histoire de la science économique, histoire sociale des idées, ordolibéralisme, néo-libéralisme.

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Water in the desert? The influence of Wilhelm Röpke on Ludwig Erhard and the social market economy

Cited by 13 publications

References 7 publications

Germany and the European and Global Crises

Germany and the European and Global Crises

How Adenauer Lost Power: Understanding Leadership Rivalry and Succession Conflict in Political Parties

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