Strong State & The Free Economy The

Bonefeld, Prof. Werner

ISBN 10: 1783486279 / ISBN 13: 9781783486274

Published by Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017

About this Item

An investigation into the theoretical foundations of ordoliberal thought and its historical and theoretical contexts. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JPFK; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. . . 2017. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Strong State & The Free Economy The
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783486279
• ISBN 13: 9781783486274
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

German ordoliberalism originated at the end of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) in a context of hyper-inflation, depression, mass unemployment and social unrest. For ordoliberalism, a free economy is premised on a sound political, legal, social and moral framework to secure its cohesion. The role of the state is to ensure a liberal economic order.

Ordoliberalism is a contested account of post-neoliberal political economy: some argue that it offers a more restrained and socially just market order; others, in complete contrast, that is a form of authoritarian liberalism and that it is the theoretical foundation for the austerity politics that the EU has actively promoted in recent years.

Foucault discusses ordoliberalism at length in The Birth of Biopolitics, and Bonefeld’s book provides a thought-provoking companion to those lectures by offering a more comprehensive investigation of the theoretical foundation of ordoliberal thought and its historical and theoretical contexts.

About the Author

Werner Bonefeld teaches in the Department of Politics at the University of York, UK. Before coming to York he taught at the Universities of Frankfurt and Edinburgh. He has conducted post-graduate seminars on critical theory at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, adn at Universidad de Buenos Aires (2008). His work contributed to the development of the internationally recognised Open Marxism school.