Introduction: Objectives and Contents of the Volume Josef Hien and Christian Joerges Section I: Irritations/Perceptions of Ordoliberalism and of German Politics 1. Dirigisme and Modernism vs Ordoliberalism Bruno Amable 2. Why and How has German Ordoliberalism Become a French Issue? Some Aspects about Ordoliberal Thoughts we can Learn from the French Reception Arnaud Lechevalier 3. Ordoliberalism’s Trans-Atlantic (Un)Intelligibility: From Friedman and Eucken to Geithner and Schäuble William Callison 4. The Tepid Reception of Ordoliberalism in Italy and Present-Day Dissent Stefano Solari 5. Ordoliberalism as Tradition and as Ideology Kenneth Dyson Section II: The Political Liberalism of Ordoliberalism 6. Ordoliberalism as a Variety of Neoliberalism Thomas Biebricher 7. Breaking the ‘Caging’ Mentality: Ordoliberalism, Responsibility and Solidarity in the EU Maurizio Ferrera 8. What is Neoliberal in Germany’s and Europe’s Crisis Politics? Brigitte Young 9. The Success Story of Ordoliberalism as the Guiding Principle of German Economic Policy Stephan Pühringer Section III: The Ordering Functions of Law in the Ordoliberal Tradition 10. Debunking the Myth of the Ordoliberal Influence on Post-war European Integration Angela Wigger 11. The Overburdening of Law by Ordoliberalism and the Integration Project Christian Joerges 12. Ordoliberal Escape from Societas Economica: Re-establishing the Normative Michelle Everson Section IV: The Moral and Normative Dimension of ‘the Economic’ and the Ordoliberal Tradition 13. Ordoliberalism, Polanyi, and the Theodicy of Markets David M. Woodruff 14. Ordoliberalism Within and Outside Germany’s Co-ordinated Market Economy Albert Weale 15. Competition or Conflict? Beyond Traditional Ordoliberalism Malte Dold and Tim Krieger 16. Ordoliberalism and the Quest for Sacrality Josef Hien Section V: Government without Law 17. Ordoliberalism and Political Theology: On the Government of Stateless Money Werner Bonefeld 18. Policy Between Rules and Discretion Jonathan White 19. How Monetary Rules and Wage Discretion get into Conflict in the Eurozone (And What—If Anything—Ordoliberalism has to do with it) Philip Manow

[T]his is a crucial book if one really wants to understand the evolving debate on the nature, significance and diffusion of Ordoliberalism, beyond and against many, accumulated commonplaces. An even more precious work, if one wants to grasp the shortcomings of the current economic governance of the Eurozone, and what we can expect from a reform of its flawed architecture.

A collection of essays examining ordoliberalism, the German variant of social liberalism - its legal and economic dimensions, how it is perceived outside and within Germany, and its influence and future.

A timely rexamination of ordoliberalism, a highly influential German political and economic theory regarded as a driving force in the 20th century, now increasingly under scrutiny in the rapidly changing 21st century.