Front Matter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Liberal Order and its Utilitarian Foundation -- The Rise of Ordo -- The West German Experiment and the Decline of Ordo -- Monetary Policy: The Illiberal Practice of Inflation Targeting -- Liability and Private Property: Confronting the Perfect Externalizing Machine -- Structure of the State: Community and Vitalpolitik -- Labour Markets: Continuous Training and Flexibility -- Product Markets: Enforcing the Price Mechanism -- Confronting Liberalism's Fatal Flaw -- Methodology Used for Measuring the Dispersal of Public and Private Power by Policy Field -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary
Drawing on the German ordoliberal tradition, this book argues that liberalism's reliance on a utilitarian policy framework has resulted in increased concentrations of power, restricting freedom and equality. It proposes an alternative public policy framework and offers a practical pathway to realign policy making with liberal ideas
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