Non-emigrant ordoliberals designed their economic concepts for implementation under Nazi government

Evidence

What certainly can be rejected as a mere cover-up is the claim that the ordoliberals who did not emigrate from Germany opposed, or even persistently resisted, the national socialist regime (e.g., Willgerodt 1998; Wegmann 2002, 55–72; Goldschmidt 2005). With the exception of the documented emigrants (Wilhelm Röpke and Alexander Rüstow), such a revisionist history of the wartime ordoliberals is not supported by facts. Papers published in Freiburg between the mid-1930s and the beginning of the 1940s unquestionably reveal that ordoliberal concepts were designed to be implemented under the auspices of a Nazi government. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 539

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the standard legitimacy narrative of the social market economy; connects to wider historiography of postwar German economic institutions’ tainted Nazi origins. — connects to: German ordoliberals’ wartime economic critique was not real resistance against Nazism. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 321; Market-liberal ordoliberal thought flourished even inside the Third Reich. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 323; Ordoliberals advised the Nazi regime while also networking postwar plans — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 623 (+4 more)
• ADDENDUM: Relevant to the sacrifice article’s theme of legitimizing narratives construction, but tangentially; more directly it’s core to the reader’s current project on neoliberal origins.

Broader Connections

• Nazi economic policy vacillation made ordoliberals hope their competition model would gain favor #expands (0.90) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 539
• Ordoliberal constitution of the economy was a compromise accommodating Nazi political supremacy #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 585