All Posts Tagged With: "Walter Eucken"
Some Constructive Heresies of Wilhelm Röpke
Wilhelm Röpke was a pro-market liberal who helped found the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947 along with F. A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Leonard Read. But he has some significant differences with Anglo-American classical liberals that are worth exploring. Born in Schwarmstedt in northern Germany in 1899, Röpke came from a family of Lutheran [...]
22Dec2010 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 2 comments | ContinuedThe German Economic Miracle and the “Social Market Economy”
Richard Ebeling is the president of FEE. This summer marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the post-World War II German “economic miracle.” When the war ended in Europe in 1945, Germany was in a shambles. Its major cities had been destroyed either from Allied bombing or urban combat. Millions of its citizens had [...]
1Apr2008 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Mont Pelerin Society’s 50th Anniversary
Greg Kaza serves in the Michigan House of Representatives (42nd District) and is also an adjunct professor at Northwood University. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Mont Pelerin Society, one of this century’s most important groups of free-market intellectuals. The world was a quite different place when 36 free-market thinkers [...]
1Jun1997 | Greg Kaza | 0 comments | Continued-
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