Ordering ORDO: Capturing the Freiburg School’s Post-war Development through a Text Mining Analysis of its Yearbook (1948–2014)

Küsters Anselm ()
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Küsters Anselm: Centrum für Europäische Politik (cep), Schiffbauerdamm 40, D-10117 Berlin, Germany

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2023, vol. 64, issue 1, 55-109

Abstract: Current research on the long-term influence of ordoliberal and neoliberal ideas is hampered by an overly static and generalised picture of the Freiburg School. To address this gap, the paper analyses all articles published in ORDO, the flagship journal of the Freiburg School, between 1948 and 2014. This makes it possible to distinguish three phases of post-war ordoliberalism, to identify personal continuities and breaks, and to summarise thematic, methodological, and conceptual developments. Since the analysis utilises text mining methods, such as keyword identification and Topic Modeling, and validates the results of distant reading with close reading and external data, the paper also highlights some general methodological insights for using Digital Humanities in the historical sciences.

Keywords: Ordoliberalism; Freiburg School; Text Mining; Topic Modeling; Competition Law; Ordoliberalismus; Freiburger Schule; Wettbewerbsrecht (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B C K (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1515/jbwg-2023-0004

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