English summary: The recent "Greek crisis," the unflagging prosperity across the Rhine, Brussels' economic leanings: today's news constantly remind us of the German ordoliberals' continuing - whether praised or criticised - influence. This book has come at just the right moment to give readers an unprecedented and timely update on this subject.Patricia Commun does not merely provide a useful review of Germany's intellectual and political history from 1930 to 1960 to contextualise the itinerary of these anti-Nazi economists ...
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English summary: The recent "Greek crisis," the unflagging prosperity across the Rhine, Brussels' economic leanings: today's news constantly remind us of the German ordoliberals' continuing - whether praised or criticised - influence. This book has come at just the right moment to give readers an unprecedented and timely update on this subject.Patricia Commun does not merely provide a useful review of Germany's intellectual and political history from 1930 to 1960 to contextualise the itinerary of these anti-Nazi economists and sociologists who founded ordoliberalism (Walter Eucken, Wilhelm Ropke, and, most notably, the future Chancellor Ludwig Erhard). She also reveals the doctrinal pillars of the "social market economy" stemming from it, which is rooted in a legal order (hence the term "ordo") regulating the laws that ensure a free market economy based on freedom of pricing and trade, monetary stability, balanced budgets, and moderate taxation. The author also stresses its positive effects: pragmatic co-management enabling traps associated with a welfare state to be avoided and social cohesion to be secured by a web of creative SMEs.Lastly, the author shows the ways in which this practical, consensual, and original German-style liberalism, which repudiates not only dirigisme and "constructivism," but also laissez-faire, has profoundly revived classical liberalism and reshaped its epistemological basis. French description: Recente crise grecque, prosperite qui ne se dement pas outre-Rhin, orientations economiques de Bruxelles: sans cesse l'actualite rappelle l'influence toujours agissante, louee ou critiquee, des ordoliberaux allemands. Cet ouvrage vient donc a son heure pour faire, avec toute la rigueur necessaire alliee a un grand souci de clarte pedagogique, un point inedit et actualise sur le sujet - au-dela des cliches et polemiques habituels.Patricia Commun ne s'y contente pas d'utilement revenir sur l'histoire intellectuelle et politique de l'Allemagne des annees 1930-1960 pour contextualiser l'itineraire de ces economistes et sociologues antinazis (Walter Eucken, Wilhelm Ropke, le futur Chancelier Ludwig Erhard en particulier) a l'origine de la pensee ordoliberale. Elle expose ce que sont les piliers doctrinaux de l' economie sociale de marche qui en decoule: ancrage dans un ordre (d'ou le terme ordo ) juridique du respect des regles assurant la libre concurrence sur fond de liberte des prix et des echanges, de stabilite monetaire, d'equilibre budgetaire et d'une fiscalite moderee. Et souligne ses heureux effets: cogestion pragmatique permettant d'eviter les pieges d'un Etat-providence, cohesion sociale arrimee a un tissu de PME creatives.L'auteur montre enfin en quoi ce liberalisme pratique, consensuel et original a l'allemande qui repudie aussi bien le dirigisme et le constructivisme que le laissez-faire a profondement renouvele la pensee liberale classique et refonde son assise epistemologique.
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