Historians underestimate how much German ordoliberals and Hayek actually agreed.

Evidence

As German economic historian Knut Borchardt (1981, 36) pointed out, especially with regard to the flexible conceptual approach of the social market economy, the basic agreement of the German ordoliberals with the ideas of Hayek (and vice versa) is mostly underestimated. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 518

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader historiography question of whether the Mont Pèlerin network was unified or factionalized — a theme across this book’s chapters.