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Dead man walking? Current European interest in the ordoliberal tradition
University of Milan, Milan, Italy.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0471-6423
Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany; University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
2018 (English)In: European Law Journal, ISSN 1351-5993, E-ISSN 1468-0386, Vol. 24, no 2-3, p. 142-162Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

During the years of the financial crisis, ordoliberalism became the target of a European‐wide critical campaign. This school of thought is widely perceived as the ideational source of Germany's crisispolitics, which has even led to an “ordoliberalisation of Europe”. This essay questions the validityof such assessments. It focuses on two aspects that are widely neglected in current debates. One is the importance of law in the ordoliberal vision of the ordering of economy and society. The second is its cultural and religious background, in particular in German Protestantism. The influence of the ordoliberal school on European law, so the essay argues, is overrated in all stages of the integration project. Anglo‐American neoliberalism rather than German ordoliberalism has been in the ideational driver's seat since the 1980s. In the responses to the financial crisis, the ordoliberalcommitment to the rule of law gave way to discretionary emergency measures. While the foundational synthesis of economic and legal concepts became indefensible, the cultural underpinnings of the ordoliberal tradition survived and developed a life of their own, in particular in German political discourses.

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John Wiley & Sons, 2018. Vol. 24, no 2-3, p. 142-162
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-41973DOI: 10.1111/eulj.12277OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-41973DiVA, id: diva2:1549078
Available from: 2021-05-04 Created: 2021-05-04 Last updated: 2021-05-06Bibliographically approved

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