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Wilhelm Röpke’s Relevance in a Post-Totalitarian World

In: Wilhelm Röpke (1899–1966)

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  • Richard Ebeling

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Ebeling portrays Wilhelm Röpke as a leading European advocate of a liberal economic order and a conservative social order built around the institutions of civil society. While not an advocate of laissez-faire, Röpke believed that a competitive market economy was essential to a free and humane society, which was the opposite of the totalitarianisms of the twentieth century. In the postwar period, Röpke considered the welfare state and inflation to be new dangers threatening the freedom and stability of Western societies from within. Ebeling shows that Röpke’s ideas can also be applied to the contemporary dilemma of the continuing growth of the welfare state, the controversy over European economic integration, the crisis of international migration, and the new dangers from religious fanaticism.

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  • Richard Ebeling, 2018. "Wilhelm Röpke’s Relevance in a Post-Totalitarian World," The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences, in: Patricia Commun & Stefan Kolev (ed.), Wilhelm Röpke (1899–1966), pages 259-272, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:euhchp:978-3-319-68357-7_17
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68357-7_17
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