Neuer Liberalismus und Faschismus: Liberaler Interventionismus und die Ordnung des Wettbewerbs

Abstract

Abstract The focus of the article is on the academic and political-economic symbiosis between the origins of neoliberalism and the economics of fascism during the 1930s. This approach is crucial for answering open research questions such as the contribution of Ordnungspolitik to the efforts to overcome the world depression and mass unemployment in Germany and the new openness of conservative economic thinking toward the reform of liberalism in the thirties and, even more importantly, toward Soziale Marktwirtschaft after 1945. Furthermore the analysis of the very nature of liberal interventionism and competitive order underlines the special features of the German social market economy in comparison with current versions of neoliberalism.