The Freiburg school sought to install an authoritarian competitive order within Nazi Germany.

Evidence

With regard to more narrowly defined economic issues, the early ordoliberals were continually at odds with other schools of economic reasoning that operated during the Nazi era. As a rather coherent theoretical circle within the ordoliberal spectrum, the Freiburger Schule particular tried to promote a competitive order before and even during wartime. By developing policy advisory roles, they saw a chance to fill the economic theory vacuum in Nazi Germany with an authoritarian competitive order. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 542

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘authoritarian competitive order’ anticipates the later strong-state framing that became core to ordoliberal and then EU policy thought. — connects to: Freiburg school feared private cartels more than the state, diverging from Anglo-American liberalism — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 360; Postwar Germany adopted ordoliberalism because the Freiburg school survived the Nazis intact — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 367; Multiple lines of economic thought coexisted within Nazi Germany despite its totalitarianism — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 540 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Husserl’s Freiburg school operated as a demanding cult of devoted assistants #complicates (0.82) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 132
• Freiburg’s ordoliberal circle remained active research centers under Nazism #complicates (0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 622
• Nazi economic policy vacillation made ordoliberals hope their competition model would gain favor #corroborates (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 539
• Röpke fled Nazi Germany and later shaped the MPS’s founding #qualifies (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1345