Academic lineage reproduction, not just ideas, carried ordoliberalism into postwar Germany

Evidence

The strong academic influence was manifested in the successful academic reproduction of the Freiburg School and especially of Eucken’s students. Figure 11.1 shows German professors of economics whose doctoral theses and/or habilitation theses were supervised by Eucken. Although Eucken died rather young at the age of fifty-nine, during a research visit at the LSE (to which he had been invited by Hayek), he was one of the most successful “producers of pupils” in the history of German economics. After the successful reproduction of the first generation of the Freiburg School (Eucken supervised at least eleven pupils who were later to become professors of economics at German universities), Eucken’s pupils (in particular, Bernhard Pfister, Karl Paul Hensel, and Fritz Walter Meyer, all of whom later became members of the MPS) proved to be very successful academic supervisors, too. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 623

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader MPS network chapters and to the theme of thought collectives as institutional reproduction pipelines rather than mere idea-sets. — connects to: Postwar Germany adopted ordoliberalism because the Freiburg school survived the Nazis intact — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 367; Freiburg’s ordoliberal circle remained active research centers under Nazism — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 622; German academic economics since 1945 was dominantly controlled by a neoliberal thought collective — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 652 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• German academic economics since 1945 was dominantly controlled by a neoliberal thought collective #qualifies (0.72) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 652