Walter Eucken and Ordoliberalism: An Introduction from a Consumer Welfare Perspective
Christian Ahlborn, Carsten Grave, Nov 01, 2006
This article serves two purposes, (i) to introduce The Comparative Order and its Implementation, a seminal article published in 1949 by Walter Eucken, ordoliberalism´s, or the Freiburg School´s, most prominent scholar, and (ii) to compare some ordoliberalist competition policy recommendations to those of a consumer welfare standard.
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