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| Titel: | The Freiburg School : Walter Eucken and Ordoliberalism |
| Autoren: | Vanberg, Viktor J. |
| Datum: | 2004 |
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| Reihe/Nr.: | Freiburg discussion papers on constitutional economics 04,11 |
| Zusammenfassung: | What has become known as the Freiburg School or the Ordo-liberal School was founded in
the 1930s at the University of Freiburg in Germany by economist Walter Eucken (1891-1950)
and two jurists, Franz Böhm (1895-1977) and Hans Großmann-Doerth (1894-1944).
Freiburg University's "Fakultät für Rechts- und Staatswissenschaften" that included
law as well as economics provided a conducive framework for the combination of legal and
economic perspectives that is characteristic of the Freiburg School and of the Ordo-liberal
tradition. As Böhm later said in retrospect, the founders of the school were united in their
common concern for the question of the constitutional foundations of a free economy and
society. In the first volume (Böhm 1937) of their jointly edited publication series Ordnung
der Wirtschaft, the three editors included a co-authored programmatic introduction, entitled
"Our Task" (Böhm, Eucken and Großmann-Doerth 1989), in which they emphasized their
opposition to the, then still influential, heritage of Gustav von Schmoller's Historical School,
and to the unprincipled relativism that, in their view, this heritage had brought about in
German jurisprudence and political economy. By contrast, they stated as their guiding
principle that the "treatment of all practical politico-legal and politico-economic questions
must be keyed to the idea of the economic constitution" (ibid.: 23), a task for which, they
said, the collaboration of law and economics "is clearly essential" (ibid.: 25). |
| Erscheint in der Sammlung: | Freiburger Diskussionspapiere zur Ordnungsökonomik
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