Authority Taming Power
Authority Taming Power
From a political perspective, ordoliberals formulated a “new” social question based on the collapse of human freedom and autonomy in the face of the rise of private and public economic powers. Thus ordoliberals regarded the dispersion of economic power within the economic process as the key to overcome the social question. Finding an answer to the social question required the institution and perpetuation of the competitive order. Thus, the ordoliberal economic policy is directed toward the dispersion of economic power. Ordoliberals considered competition as a formidable tool for the disempowering of private economic power and for regulating the social body. Tracing the various manifestations of economic power led the ordoliberals to consider a broad program of economic and social policies that should be politically implemented by a strong state.
Keywords: ordoliberalism, strong state, Walter Eucken, Wilhelm Röpke, social question, economic policy, economic constitution, competitive order, monopolies
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