All Posts Tagged With: "Wilhelm Röpke"
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 | ContinuedPrinciples Must Come Before Politics
Richard Ebeling is the president of FEE. We live in a time of quick fixes and patent medicines. The “physicians” offering to spoon-feed the elixirs for what ails us are the politicians running for office. Rarely do people step back and ask themselves whether there is really any ailment at all, or whether the politicians’ [...]
1Oct2006 | Richard M. Ebeling | 1 comment | ContinuedWhat’s Wrong with How We Teach Economics
Brandon Crocker is a real estate executive in San Diego. The decline in the core curricula of universities and the growing “cultural illiteracy” of high school and college graduates have been lamented in many books and articles. As universities have redesigned their curricula to fit the demands of political correctness and the particular interests of [...]
1May2003 | Brandon Crocker | 0 comments | ContinuedWilhelm Röpke: A Centenary Appreciation
On January 30, 1933, German president Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany. One week later, on February 8, Wilhelm Röpke, a 32-year-old professor of economics at the University of Marburg, delivered a lecture in Frankfurt am Main with the title “End of an Era?” Röpke told his audience that Germany was in [...]
1Oct1999 | Richard M. Ebeling | 2 comments | ContinuedA Humane Economy
This volume is a beautifully prepared new edition of Wilhelm Röpke’s 1957 classic defense of the market economy and non-interventionist government. Röpke (1899-1966), a renowned German economist, lecturer, and writer, stood with Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, and a few other intellectuals in the middle decades of this century to warn against the perils of [...]
1May1999 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued-
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