A competitive order requires deliberate legal and institutional construction

Evidence

The preservation of an effective competitive order depends upon a proper legal and institutional framework. The existing framework must be considerably modified to make the operation of competition more efficient and beneficial. The precise character of the legal and institutional framework within which competition will work most effectively and which will supplement the working of competition is an urgent problem on which continued exchange of views is required. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 134

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is the classic ordoliberal ‘framework’ doctrine — competition as a constructed legal order, not a natural state — worth preserving as a precise definition of a core concept.
• XREF: Directly connects to German ordoliberalism (Eucken, Böhm) as distinct from laissez-faire; distinguishes the Mont Pèlerin project from classical liberalism. — connects to: Established orders reproduce themselves by naturalizing their own arbitrariness — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 2149; Slow legal process lets contested practices settle into ordinary acceptance — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 440; Disciplinary order blends artificial regulation with natural normative processes — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 277 (+2 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 134

Broader Connections

• Disciplinary order blends artificial regulation with natural normative processes #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 277
• Established orders reproduce themselves by naturalizing their own arbitrariness #complicates (0.78) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 2149
• Slow legal process lets contested practices settle into ordinary acceptance #complicates (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 440
• Law creates legitimacy structurally by formatting power-holders into chains of mutual recourse #expands (0.72) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 674