Wilhelm Röpke's political economy
1. Introduction -- 2. Ruin and reform : the crisis of German economic liberalism -- 3. Economics and the economist -- 4. Toward a new economic liberalism -- 5. Booms, recessions and business cycles -- 6. After Keynes : full employment, inflation and the welfare state -- 7. A liberal international ec...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham, U.K
Edward Elgar
c2010
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Ruin and reform : the crisis of German economic liberalism -- 3. Economics and the economist -- 4. Toward a new economic liberalism -- 5. Booms, recessions and business cycles -- 6. After Keynes : full employment, inflation and the welfare state -- 7. A liberal international economy -- 8. Between humanism and social science Wilhelm Röpke is best known for his decisive intellectual contributions to the economic reforms that took post-war West Germany from ruin to riches within a decade. In this informative book, Samuel Gregg presents Röpke as a sophisticated économiste-philosophe in the tradition of Adam Smith, who was as much concerned with exploring and reforming the moral, social and intellectual foundations of the market economy, as he was in examining subjects such as business-cycles, trade-policy, inflation, employment, and the welfare state. By situating Röpke's ideas in the history of modern Western economic thought, Samuel Gregg illustrates that while Röpke's 'neoliberalism' departed from much nineteenth-century classical liberal thought, it was also profoundly anti-Keynesian and contested key aspects of the post-war Keynesian economic consensus |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 216 p |
| ISBN: | 184844222X 9781849803328 9781848442221 |