Wilhelm Röpke’s Relevance in a Post-Totalitarian World

Richard Ebeling ()
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A chapter in Wilhelm Röpke (1899–1966), 2018, pp 259-272 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Ebeling portrays Wilhelm Röpke as a leading European advocate of a liberal economic order and a conservative social order built around the institutions of civil society. While not an advocate of laissez-faire, Röpke believed that a competitive market economy was essential to a free and humane society, which was the opposite of the totalitarianisms of the twentieth century. In the postwar period, Röpke considered the welfare state and inflation to be new dangers threatening the freedom and stability of Western societies from within. Ebeling shows that Röpke’s ideas can also be applied to the contemporary dilemma of the continuing growth of the welfare state, the controversy over European economic integration, the crisis of international migration, and the new dangers from religious fanaticism.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68357-7_17

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