Talk:Wilhelm Röpke

Deletion of Ordoliberalism
Röpke contributed few to the school of Ordoliberalism (though he is indeed sometimes associated with it). Ordoliberalism was developed by Walter Eucken, Franz Böhm and Hans Großmann-Doerth. The Ordoliberalism article is wrong there (According to the German version of the Ordoliberalism article). &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by 137.248.122.36 (talk &bull; contribs) 15:32, 23 February 2006.

From my reading, Röpke was strongly against socialism in all its forms, including National Socialism, and a strong supporter of free markets.

"He defended the free market from socialist cultural critics by pointing out that social crises and cultural decline are not the product of the free society; one needs to look to state control, political centralization, welfare, and inflation as a primary source of social decay."

See http://mises.org/about/3241. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.94.105.46 (talk) 19:29, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

The German Ordoliberalism article names Röpke as part of Ordoliberalism in a wider sense (because Röpke, as well as Alexander Rüstow had a more socilogical approach). Röpkes economic thought is closely related to Ordoliberalism Röpke ist especially not an Austrian School economist since his economic thoughts are based on a rejection of both, socialism and laissez-faire liberalism (Mises laissez-faire approach was labeled Paläoliberalismus in Germany - meaning ‘stick-in-the-mud liberalism’). --Pass3456 (talk) 21:37, 15 April 2011 (UTC)


 * As a student Röpke may have been a follower of the Austrian School. But since the beginning of his career he formed the school of Soziologischer Liberalismus which is a sociological form of Ordoliberalism. see Razeen Sally, Classical Liberalism and International Economic Order, Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0-415-16493-1, p. 106, Wilga Föste, Grundwerte in der Ordnungskonzeption der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft, Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg, 2006, ISBN 3-89518-576-0, p. 147, Nils Goldschmidt, Michael Wohlgemuth, Grundtexte zur Freiburger Tradition der Ordnungsökonomik, Mohr Siebeck, 2008, Tübingen, ISBN 978-3-16-148297-7, p. 12, Ralf Ptak, Vom Ordoliberalismus zur Sozialen Marktwirtschaft: Stationen des Neoliberalismus in Deutschland, Vs Verlag, 1. Auflage, ISBN 978-3810041111, p. 24, Hans-Rudolf Peters, Wirtschaftspolitik, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3486255027, p. 150. No one calls him an Austrian School economist since there are a lot of differences between Soziologischer Liberalismus and austrian school. --Pass3456 (talk) 20:26, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Some more sources . --Pass3456 (talk) 20:35, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Bias
'Röpke. . . is credited with contributing the intellectual backbone of the now infamous German Economic "Miracle".[7]' The phrase 'now infamous' is an authorial intrusion and comment that 1) evidences the author's bias and 2) is unnecessary. Suggest that it be deleted. Antares.press (talk) 09:27, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
 * +1 --Pass3456 (talk) 18:25, 5 February 2012 (UTC)