Overview
- Provides a comprehensive treatment of Wilhelm Röpke as a liberal political economist and conservative social philosopher
- Offers new biographical insights into Röpke’s exile in Istanbul and Geneva
- Elaborates on his multifaceted social philosophy
Part of the book series: The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences (EHES, volume 20)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Wilhelm Röpke: New Biographical Insights
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Wilhelm Röpke as a Political Economist: Between Keynes and the Austrians
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Wilhelm Röpke as a Social Philosopher. Part A: Conservatism
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Wilhelm Röpke as a Social Philosopher. Part B: Liberalism
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About this book
This volume provides a comprehensive account of Wilhelm Röpke as a liberal political economist and social philosopher. Wilhelm Röpke (1899-1966) was a key protagonist of transatlantic neoliberalism, a prominent public intellectual and a gifted international networker. As an original thinker, he always positioned himself at the interface between political economy and social philosophy, as well as between liberalism and conservatism. Röpke’s endeavors to combine these elements into a coherent whole, as well as his embeddedness in European and American intellectual networks of liberal and conservative thinkers, are a central theme throughout the book.
The volume includes papers by international experts from a conference in Geneva on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Röpke’s passing. The first part focuses on new biographical insights into his exile years in Istanbul and Geneva, while the second part discusses his business cycle theory in the context of the Great Depression, and the third part elaborates on his multifaceted social philosophy.
Wilhelm Röpke was among the most important thinkers within the classical liberal revival post-WWII, with intriguing tensions between liberalism and conservatism. A highly recommended volume.
–– Peter J. Boettke, 2016-2018 President of the Mont Pèlerin Society and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, George Mason University
This important collection of papers provides an in-depth assessment of Wilhelm Röpke’s contributions, placing him in the context of his time. A fine contribution.
–– Bruce J. Caldwell, Director of the Center for the History of Political Economy and Research Professor of Economics, Duke University
Reviews
“The … book brings a welcome and timely contribution to a better understanding of such a complex concept as (neo)liberalism … Röpke’s books remain a source of inspiration for us today, in our age of sophists, bankers, and calculators.” (Aurelian Craiutu, Society, Vol. 56, 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Patricia Commun is a professor of German studies at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, France. Her fields of research are history of German economic thought, history of German liberalism and especially ordoliberalism. Patricia Commun’s last book (“Les Ordolibéraux. Histoire d'un libéralisme à l'allemande”, Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2016) covers the historical, political, and intellectual context of the refounding of German liberalism in the 1920s-1950s. Together with Stefan Kolev, she co-organized in April 2016 the International Wilhelm Röpke Conference in Geneva.
Stefan Kolev is a professor of political economy at the University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, Germany, and the deputy director of the Wilhelm Röpke Institute in Erfurt, Germany. His fields of research are history of economic thought, Austrian economics, and constitutional political economy. Stefan Kolev’s last book (“Neoliberale Staatsverständnisse im Vergleich”, 2nd edition, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin/Boston 2017) analyzes comparatively the political economies of ordoliberals and Austrian economists of the 20th century, whereas his current projects address the 19th century origins of these ideas and their revitalization for the 21st century.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wilhelm Röpke (1899–1966)
Book Subtitle: A Liberal Political Economist and Conservative Social Philosopher
Editors: Patricia Commun, Stefan Kolev
Series Title: The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68357-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68356-0Published: 26 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88588-9Published: 09 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-68357-7Published: 15 February 2018
Series ISSN: 1572-1744
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5892
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 272
Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Political Philosophy, International Political Economy, Sociology, general, Public Economics