Coordinated capitalism’s constraints, not US market relations, drove the entrepreneurship discourse in Germany

Evidence

The rise of the German-language literature on the entrepreneurship topic (Unternehmertum) during the 1970s and 1980s was arguably due to the challenges emanating from institutional restrictions like co-determination and corporatist arrangements. Paradoxically, arm’s-length-type market relations gave rise to managerialism and planning in the United States, whereas institutions of coordinated capitalism generated a strong sensibility for the role and relevance of entrepreneurs. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 308

Categorization

• XREF: This paradox directly fractures the monocausal ‘neoliberalism = Anglo-American’ caricature; supports the chapter’s theme of European varieties of neoliberalism. — connects to: The literature debates whether social market economy came from Eucken’s or Müller-Armack’s influence — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 711; Mannheim’s German and English phases diverged between emancipatory knowledge and planning control — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 86
• SEED: Could form an essay angle: why institutional constraint — co-determination, corporatism — produced a stronger entrepreneurship discourse than free-market relations did.