This book highlights the crucial, albeit overlooked, role of economic and political power in the making of ordoliberal thought. Raphaël Fèvre explores the roots of contemporary political and economic debates on European governance.

Raphaël Fèvre is Assistant Professor in Economics at Université Côte d'Azur (France) and associate member of the Centre Walras-Pareto (Switzerland). He works on topics in history of economic thought and methodology of the 20th century.

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction: The Making of Ordoliberalism


• Chapter 1: From the Ashes of the Western Liberal Order


• Chapter 2: Science Against Interests


• Chapter 3: Economy Through Orders


• Chapter 4: Authority Taming Power


• Chapter 5: Epilogue-Time for Responsibility


• Conclusions: Ordoliberalism, From Crystallization to Ossification


• Bibliography


• Index