The Birth of Austerity

Introduction / Part I: Sources / 1. The Ordo Manifesto of 1936, Walter Eucken, Franz Böhm and Hans Grossmann-Doerth / 2. Structural Transformations of the State and the Crisis of Capitalism, Walter Eucken / 3. The Different Types of Economic System, Walter Eucken / 4. Competition as the Basic Principle of the Economic Constitution, Walter Eucken/ 5. Principles of Economic Policy, Walter Eucken / 6. Economic Ordering as a Problem of Economic Policy and a Problem of the Economic Constitution, Franz Böhm / 7. Decartelization and De-concentration: A Problem for Specialists or a fateful Question?, Franz Böhm / 8. State Policy and the Necessary Conditions for Economic Liberalism, Alexander Rüstow / 9. General Sociological Causes of the Economic Disintegration and Possibilities of Reconstruction, Alexander Rüstow / 10. Social Policy or Vitalpolitik (Organic Policy), Alexander Rüstow / Part II: Analyses / 11. Ordoliberalism as Governmentality, Johanna Oksala / 12. Europe after Ordoliberalism: A Philippic, Christian Joerges / 13. Is Germany's and Europe's Crisis Politics Ordoliberal and/or Neoliberal?, Brigitte Young / 14. Economic Order and Political Intervention. Michel Foucault on Ordoliberalism and its Governmental Rationality, Lars Gertenbach.