Rethinking the pandemic narrative: An ordoliberal perspective

Dmitrii Trubnikov

Economic Affairs, 2022, vol. 42, issue 2, 327-343

Abstract: This article analyses the Covid‐19 pandemic narrative through the lens of the ordoliberal concept of interdependence of orders. This approach explains why the measures adopted eschewed market‐based solutions and suggests what their real driving forces were. The ordoliberal approach asserts that the concentration of power problem is not only a direct outcome of the government response to the crisis, but is also the main cause of the ways chosen to deal with it. This power concentration reached very dangerous levels, which affected social, technological, political and even academic orders, forming the system of incentives that encouraged all crucial players to support the chosen methods.

Date: 2022
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