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- noun politics a form of political philosophy that emphasizes on maximizing the potential of the
free market to produce results
Etymologies
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Examples
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Europe maintains a strong belief in "ordoliberalism" -- which holds that many suppliers of a given product lead to healthy competition and a robust economy.
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Mr. Eucken, who died in 1950, is closely associated with a school of economics known as ordoliberalism, which teaches that state regulations can help the free market produce results close to its theoretical potential.
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Over the long term, the evidence shows ordoliberalism beats neoliberalism whether in industry or sport.
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Neoliberalism promotes boom and bust, while ordoliberalism promotes consistency.
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There is much you can gather on the Internet about it, but here is a brief snippet from the NYT Economix blog on ordoliberalism in today's context:
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Neoliberalism in the US, like German ordoliberalism, has a social or societal policy that focuses on enterprises, an enterprise society.
I cite 2009
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But, there is a way that American neoliberalism is more radical or complete than German ordoliberalism.
I cite 2009
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The Birth of Biopolitics, Foucault presents German ordoliberalism emerging in opposition to Nazism.
I cite 2009
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: a. German ordoliberalism, even as it was a policy for the economization of the entire social field tried also to compensate for the strictly economic game of competition.
I cite 2009
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Simply read a bit about ordoliberalism. permalink)
Mark Shuttleworth mark 2010
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