Arbeitspapier

Ordoliberalism and the social market economy

[Introduction] Contrary to its usage in current political discourse, the term neoliberalism originally referred to those schools of economic thought that opposed laissez-faire liberalism and wanted to assign a more active role to the state. Faced with the economic turmoil of the late 19th and early 20th century - including the poverty of the working class, concentrations of power in the hand of large corporations and multiple monetary and economic crises - neoliberals posited that the government should intervene in private markets in order to uphold competition. [...]

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Freiburger Diskussionspapiere zur Ordnungsökonomik ; No. 21/5

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Feld, Lars P.
Köhler, Ekkehard A.
Nientiedt, Daniel
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Institut für Allgemeine Wirtschaftsforschung, Abteilung für Wirtschaftspolitik und Ordnungsökonomik
(where)
Freiburg i. Br.
(when)
2021

Handle
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Feld, Lars P.
  • Köhler, Ekkehard A.
  • Nientiedt, Daniel
  • Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Institut für Allgemeine Wirtschaftsforschung, Abteilung für Wirtschaftspolitik und Ordnungsökonomik

Time of origin

  • 2021

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