The Oxford Handbook of Ordoliberalism

This Handbook provides a comprehensive study of ordoliberalism from the intellectual origins and prime exemplars to its main theoretical themes and practical applications up to the most recent debates taking place across a range of disciplines.

Thomas Biebricher received his doctorate in Political Science from the University of Freiburg in 2003. From 2003 to 2009 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Florida in Gainesville. From 2009 to 2012 he was Junior Research Group Director at the Cluster of Excellence 'Normative Orders' at the Goethe University in Frankfurt where he continued to hold various other positions until 2020. In 2014 he spent some months on a research stay at the Institute of European Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Since July 2020 he is Associate Professor for the History of Economic Governance at the Department of Management, Politics, and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School.
Werner Bonefeld is Professor in Politics at the University of York. Before coming to York, he taught at the Universities of Frankfurt and Edinburgh. His research is in the area of political economy as a critical social theory. His work has contributed to the development of Open Marxism, which integrates early Frankfurt School critical theory and the critique of political economy. He has published about the restructuring of the British State, the global economy, European integration, antisemitism, critical theory and Marx. With Chris O'Kane he is co-editor of the Bloomsbury Series Critical Theory and the Critique of Society.
Peter Nedergaard is professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen since 2008. Before that, he was Professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Aarhus. His research interests are European politics and the political economy of European integration, Nordic cooperation, and international political economy. In relation to this he has analyzed the common agricultural policy, the market integration, Nordic cooperation, employment policy, international trade policy, as well as the administration of EU and Nordic cooperation. He has published extensively in these areas.

Introduction
1: Thomas Biebricher, Werner Bonefeld, and Peter Nedergaard: Why a book on Ordoliberalism?
Part I. Contexts
2: Bertram Schefold: Theoretical context: Ordoliberalism as a new synthesis of earlier German economic thought
3: Ralf Ptak: Historical context of the theoretical formation: Weimar democracy, Weltwirtschaftskrise and the rise of National Socialism
4: William Callison: Historical Context of Ordoliberalism's Theoretical Development
5: Philip Mirowski: Ordoliberalism within the Historical Trajectory of Neoliberalism
6: Thomas Biebricher: Ordoliberalism and Conservatism
Part II. Key thinkers and key texts
7: Manuel Wörsdörfer: Walter Eucken: Foundations of Economics
8: Michelle Everson: Franz Böhm: Private Law Society and Lessons for our Age
9: Raphaël Fèvre: Wilhelm Röpke: The Social Crisis of Our Time
10: Stefan Kolev and Nils Goldschmidt: Alexander Rüstow: The Failure of Economic Liberalism
11: Ralf Ptak: Alfred Müller-Armack: The "State Idea" and the Economic Order - Metamorphoses from 1932 to 1978
12: Ralf Ptak: Leonhard Miksch: "Competition as a Task" in Science, Journalism and Politics
13: Christian Joerges: Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker: A vision of European Economic Constitutionalism
14: Malte Dold: Viktor Vanberg: The Constitution of Markets and Public Choice
15: Viktor J. Vanberg: Adam Smith: Classical Political Economy and Ordoliberalism
16: Alec Dinnin: Ortega y Gasset: The fear of mass society
17: Renato Cristi: Carl Schmitt: Decisionism
Part III. Political economy
18: Klaus Tuori: Economic Constitution and the State
19: Dieter Plehwe: The Economic State and the Ordoliberal Critique of Keynesianism: Anti-economic state or just a different type of economic state?
20: Jonathan White: Rule of Law (Rechtsstaat) and Social Order
21: Ralf Havertz: The Strong State and "the Taming of Freedom"
22: Hagen Schulz-Forberg: Balancing the World: (De-)centralisation, regionalism, and international organisation in the world economy
23: Josef Hien: The Social Market Economy and Ordoliberalism - a difficult relationship
Part IV. Politics
24: Joshua Rahtz: The Politics of Order and Law: Ordnungspolitik
25: Rune Møller Stahl: Politics and the Order of Society
26: Astrid Séville and Sebastian Pieper: Politics of Decision-Making: Government by Experts and the Politics of Depoliticisation
27: Philip Manow: Myth, Religion, and Social Market Economy
Part V. Policies
28: Angela Wigger: Competition Laws and Their Enforcement in theProject of European Integration. An Artefact of Ordoliberal Influence?
29: Ekkehard A. Köhler: Ordoliberal Economic Policy
30: Harald Hagemann: Economic Crisis Policy
31: Harald Hagemann: Labour Market Policy
32: Jörg Bibow: Walter Eucken on Currency Matters and Central Banking
33: Stefan Kolev and Nils Goldschmidt: Vitalpolitik
34: Lars Cornelissen: Post-War Ordoliberalism, Race, and the Politics of Development
Part VI. Contemporary issues
35: Quinn Slobodian: Ordoliberals on Federalism and Europe
36: Federico Bruno: Eurozone Policy and Crisis
37: Remi Maier-Rigaud: Social Policy in an Entrepreneurial Society
38: Frieder Vogelmann: Ordoliberalism as Political Rationality in Foucault's Genealogy of Liberalism