Ordoliberal constitution of the economy was a compromise accommodating Nazi political supremacy

Evidence

The ordoliberals bundled their normative concepts in the idea of a Wirtschaftsverfassung, that is, an organization of market economy under constitutional law. The idea of a kombinierte Wirtschaftverfassung was developed under the influence of Nazi Germany and referred to a combination of two Lenkungsprinzipien (“governing principles”) within the scope of this economic system: on the one hand, indirect governing via competition, and on the other hand—where required—direct governing by the state. This proposal was devised by early ordoliberals and marks a compromise, taking into consideration the National Socialist primacy of politics without dispensing with an economic system dominated by competition. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 585

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Wirtschaftsverfassung and the kombinierte Wirtschaftverfassung compromise framework.
• XREF: Connects to the wider ordoliberal historiography of Nieman/this book and to debates on whether ordoliberalism was accommodated with Nazism. — connects to: Postwar Germany adopted ordoliberalism because the Freiburg school survived the Nazis intact — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 367; The EU’s constitutional design embodies German ordoliberal principles — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 374; German ordoliberals’ wartime economic critique was not real resistance against Nazism. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 321 (+9 more)
• QUESTION: Worth chasing how far this ‘compromise’ strained or broke under actual Nazi economic practice.

Broader Connections

• Nazi rule affirmed capitalism rather than superseding it #corroborates (0.78) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 510
• Ordoliberals viewed the Third Reich as the product of anti-liberal policy #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1172
• Command economy and monopoly capitalism coexisted under Nazi rule #expands (0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 510