A Political Economy of Power - Raphaël Fèvre

A Political Economy of Power

Ordoliberalism in Context, 1932-1950

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Buch | Hardcover
280 Seiten
2022
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-760780-0 (ISBN)
115,95 inkl. MwSt
This book highlights the crucial, albeit overlooked, role of economic and political power in the making of ordoliberal thought. Raphaël Fèvre explores the roots of contemporary political and economic debates on European governance.
The first English analysis of German ordoliberalism from the perspective of both intellectual history and history of economic thought

In comparison with Keynesianism, monetarism, or other economic paradigms of the twentieth century, ordoliberalism has been generally neglected. However, after first emerging in Germany during interwar years, ordoliberalism is now at the center of the ongoing debates about the foundations, the present governance, and the future prospects of the European Union.

In A Political Economy of Power, Raphaël Fèvre retraces the intellectual history of ordoliberalism, focusing on the works of its main representatives Walter Eucken and Wilhelm Röpke, together with the contributions of Franz Böhm, Alexander Rüstow, Leonhard Miksch, and Friedrich Lutz. Fèvre provides a clear and comprehensive definition of ordoliberalism, describes in detail its principles, and explains how ordoliberalism came to heavily influence German post-war reconstruction despite its emergence during the Nazi period. He also investigates the reasons for its success in West Germany in the immediate aftermath of the war, and its lasting influence through a partial transformation to a contemporary form of neoliberal orthodoxy. A Political Economy of Power provides a contextualized and interdisciplinary study of ordoliberalism-one of the most influential intellectual projects of the second half of the twentieth century in Europe.

Raphaël Fèvre is Assistant Professor in Economics at Université Côte d'Azur (France) and associate member of the Centre Walras-Pareto (Switzerland). He works on topics in history of economic thought and methodology of the 20th century.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Making of Ordoliberalism
Chapter 1: From the Ashes of the Western Liberal Order
Chapter 2: Science Against Interests
Chapter 3: Economy Through Orders
Chapter 4: Authority Taming Power
Chapter 5: Epilogue-Time for Responsibility
Conclusions: Ordoliberalism, From Crystallization to Ossification

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Oxford Studies in the History of Economics
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 164 x 237 mm
Gewicht 526 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10 0-19-760780-2 / 0197607802
ISBN-13 978-0-19-760780-0 / 9780197607800
Zustand Neuware
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