30.11.2023 Neues Diskussionspapier von Lars P. Feld und Daniel Nientiedt: Examining the Ordoliberal Tradition in Classical Liberal Thought
Writing in 1951, Friedrich Hayek identified four places where the classical liberal tradition had been upheld and developed during the first half of the 20th century. He named London, Vienna, Chicago, and, perhaps surprising to some, the small southern German town of Freiburg (Hayek, 1951/1967). The reason for including Freiburg was that it is the birthplace of ordoliberalism, a branch of classical liberalism that to this day remains relatively unknown outside of Germany.
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