Ordoliberalism, State and Society

Olimpia Malatesta is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History of Political Thought at the Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna, Italy.

• Part I: The Economy 1: The Weimar Republic between economic crisis and bureaucratization 2: Werner Sombart and the end of capitalism 3: Walter Eucken and the crisis of capitalism. On Sombart and Schumpeter 4: Wilhelm Röpke on the secular crisis of capitalism 5: Alfred Müller-Armack and the laws of capitalist development Part II: The State 6: The Wirtschaftsverfassung and the constitutional compromise of Weimar 7: Franz Böhm against Hugo Sinzheimer and the social democratic compromise 8: From the liberal state to the economic state 9: The collapse of religion and the affirmation of the total state 10: Walter Eucken, Carl Schmitt and the intermingling of state and society 11: The criticism of pluralism and the strong state. Carl Schmitt, Alexander Rüstow and authoritarian liberalism 12: Alfred Müller-Armack, the criticism of liberalism and the corporatist state Part III: The Society 13: The refoundation of the juridical. Against Savigny’s relativism and the laissez faire liberalism 14: Walter Eucken and the refoundation of economic science. Against Gustav Schmoller’s historicism 15: The social question and the Vitalpolitik between nature and history