A political economy of power : ordoliberalism in context, 1932-1950 / Raphaël Fèvre.
"Today, ordoliberalism is at the centre of the ongoing debate about the foundations, the present governance and future prospects of the European Union-and yet we do not dispose of a comprehensive definition of it. Whenever we talk of the dominance of the German model, the discussion should invo...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in the history of economics.
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| Online Access: | Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Summary: | "Today, ordoliberalism is at the centre of the ongoing debate about the foundations, the present governance and future prospects of the European Union-and yet we do not dispose of a comprehensive definition of it. Whenever we talk of the dominance of the German model, the discussion should involve a detailed picture of ordoliberal principles. This book retraces the intellectual history of ordoliberalism, focusing in particular on the works of its main representatives Walter Eucken and Wilhelm Röpke, together with references to the contributions of Franz Böhm, Alexander Rüstow, Leonhard Miksch and Friedrich Lutz. The book highlights the crucial, albeit overlooked, role of economic and political power in the making of ordoliberal thought. More precisely, the book shows that ordoliberalism, in its ideological, epistemological, theoretical and political components, can be defined as a political economy of power, i.e. a form of economic knowledge, whose primary objective is to analyse the sources, the action and the impact of power within society. By doing so the book will offer a new perspective on ordoliberals' key concepts built in the inter-war, while contextualizing them within a broader intellectual project"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 267 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0197607802 0197607810 0197607829 0197607837 9780197607800 9780197607817 9780197607824 9780197607831 |