Ordoliberal enterprise society is simultaneously for and against the market

Evidence

The enterprise society imagined by the ordoliberals is therefore a society for the market and a society against the market, a society oriented towards the market and a society that compensates for the effects of the market in the realm of values :l.ndexistence. This is what Riistow said in the Walter Lippmann colloquium 1have talked about: “We have to organize the economy of the social body according to the rules of the market economy, but the fact remains that we still have to satisfy new and heightened needs for integration.” — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1268

Categorization

• QUESTION: This ‘for and against the market’ tension is worth flagging — it complicates the common reading of ordoliberalism as simply pro-market and tracks into today’s debates about liberal market society.
• XREF: connects to: Ordoliberalism denied an essential capitalist logic and made rival capitalisms inventable — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 940; Ordoliberalism’s internal contradictions combined economic modernity with antimodern social ideas — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 506; Ordoliberals distrusted capitalism’s own features like urbanization and mass parties — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 153 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Ordoliberalism’s internal contradictions combined economic modernity with antimodern social ideas #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 506
• Ordoliberals distrusted capitalism’s own features like urbanization and mass parties #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 153