Freiburg school

The Freiburg school (German: Freiburger Schule) is a school of economic thought founded in the 1930s at the University of Freiburg.

It builds somewhat on the earlier historical school of economics but stresses that only some forms of competition are good, while others may require oversight. This is considered a lawful and legitimate role of government in a democracy in the Freiburg school.^[1] The Freiburg school provided the economic theoretical elements of ordoliberalism and the social market economy in post-war Germany.

The Freiburg school of economics was called "neoliberalism" until Anglo-American scholars reappropriated the term.^[2]

Adherents

• Franz Böhm^[3]
• Juergen B. Donges
• Ludwig Erhard
• Walter Eucken^[4]
• Edith Eucken-Erdsiek
• Andreas Freytag
• Hans Gestrich [de]
• Hans Großmann-Doerth [de]
• Paul Hensel
• Michael Hüther
• Wolfgang Kitterer [de]
• Friedrich A. Lutz
• Karl-Friedrich Maier
• Fritz W. Meyer [de]
• Leonhard Miksch [de]
• Bernd Raffelhüschen [de]
• Hans-Werner Sinn

Wilhelm Röpke (from the Austrian school), Alfred Müller-Armack and Alexander Rüstow were not members of the Freiburg school but did provide, together with the Freiburg school, the foundations of ordoliberalism.

See also

• Freiburg Circles
• ORDO (journal)
• Social market economy
• Historical school of economics

References

1. Feasel, Kevin (July 2008). "The Freiburg school of economics". Retrieved August 1, 2009.
2. Boas, Taylor C.; Gans-Morse, Jordan (1 June 2009). "Neoliberalism: From New Liberal Philosophy to Anti-Liberal Slogan". Studies in Comparative International Development. 44 (2): 145. doi:10.1007/s12116-009-9040-5. ISSN 1936-6167.
3. Blumenberg-Lampe, Christine (2004). "Franz Böhm". Christliche Demokraten gegen Hitler: Aus Verfolgung und Widerstand zur Union. Ed. Buchstab, Günter; Kaff, Brigitte; Kleinmann, Hans-Otto. Freiburg, Germany: Herder, 2004. 108. Print.
4. "Biografie Walter Eucken (German)". Bayerische Nationalbibliothek. Retrieved 5 August 2015.

Sources

• Nils Goldschmidt (2005). Wirtschaft, Politik und Freiheit: Freiburger Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und der Widerstand. Mohr Siebeck. ISBN 978-3-16-148520-6. Retrieved 14 September 2014. p. 315.
• Gabler Verlag (Herausgeber), Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon, Stichwort: Freiburger Schule (online)
• Oswalt, Walter. "Zur Einführung: Walter Eucken (1891–1950)". In Goldschmidt, Nils; Wohlgemuth, Michael (eds.). Grundtexte zur Freiburger Tradition der Ordnungsökonomik (in German). p. 128. ISBN 978-3-16-148297-7.

External links

• EconStor: The Freiburg School: Walter Eucken and Ordoliberalism