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

This book is indispensable reading for everyone interested in current debates on institutional economics, economic policy, the crisis of the Euro, and the role of Germany in it. It assembles several master texts from the Ordoliberal School, most of which were never published in English, and provides a lucid introduction into a widely unknown “Third Way” tradition in economic theory and policy.