Ordoliberalism and the Crisis of Neoliberal Political Economy: On the Social Market, the Free Economy, and the Strong State.
Lead Research Organisation:
University of York
Department Name: Politics
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Organisations
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| Werner Bonefeld (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Bonefeld W
(2015)
European economic constitution and the transformation of democracy: On class and the state of law
in European Journal of International Relations
Bonefeld W
(2013)
Human economy and social policy On ordo-liberalism and political authority
in History of the Human Sciences
Bonefeld W
(2012)
Freedom and the Strong State: On German Ordoliberalism
in New Political Economy
BONEFELD W
(2012)
Adam Smith and ordoliberalism: on the political form of market liberty
in Review of International Studies
Bonefeld W
(2013)
On the Strong Liberal State: Beyond Berghahn and Young
in New Political Economy
Bonefeld W
(2015)
Crisis, Free Economy and Strong State: On Ordoliberalism
in European Review of International Studies
Werner Bonefeld (Author)
(2013)
German neoliberalism and the idea of a social market economy
in Journal of social sciences
Werner Bonefeld (Author)
(2013)
German ordo-liberalism and the politics of vitality
in Renewal
Werner Bonefeld (Author)
(2012)
German ordoliberalism and the politics of vitality
in Renewal: The Journal of Labour Politics
| Description | Capitalist crisis and authoritarian liberalism : on ordoliberalism and the strong state |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lecture analysing the German ordoliberalism tradition as a state centric tradition of liberal thought. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Human economy and political authority : ordoliberalism and the idea of the big society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | The workshop paper expounds the ordoliberal tradition to illuminate the character of the Big Society idea of Cameron's notion that there are things more important then GDP. In this context it discusses Vitalpolitik as a social policy conception of ordoliberal thought. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | On the political in political economy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Paper at Fundamentals of Political Economy - weekend school |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Social market economy and big society : German neoliberalism and the politics of austerity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | In the context of the contemporary politics of austerity, the idea of a social market economy is appealing. Its conception belongs to the German neoliberal tradition that emerged in the late 1920s. The term has become blurred. For its proponents, the social character of the social market economy had nothing to do with welfare state ideas. Instead, they declared the free market to be 'social' in itself. Market freedom was endorsed as the instrument of individual freedom and personal responsibility. It was to empower entrepreneurial effort, reward individual enterprise, and sustain economic growth. The free economic was thus social in character because its operation is beneficial to everybody in society inasmuch as sustained economic growth improves the common wealth. For this reason, the proponents of the social market economy denounced the Beveridge Report as a document of what they called a proletarianised society. For them social market economy entails a social policy of 'deproletarianisation' by which they understood something akin to the Big Society idea: liberal markets, empowerment and personal responsibility of individuals as entrepreneurs of their own life circumstances, and communitarian commitments towards social well being, including subsistence support. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |