The term ordoliberalism named a specific Freiburg School circle around Eucken

Evidence

According to Becker (1965, 41), the term Ordoliberalismus was first used by Moeller (1950, 224) to identify a specific neoliberal circle, the so-called Ordo-Kreis around Walter Eucken and his Freiburger Schule, which started to publish the Ordo Yearbook in 1948. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 561

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the origin and precise referent of the contested term Ordoliberalismus.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism’s Freiburg-school origins were anticartel and then mutated in Chile — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 764; Freiburg’s ordoliberal circle remained active research centers under Nazism — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 622; The Freiburg School supplied a disproportionate share of MPS membership across generations — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 628 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• German ordoliberalism fused three distinct strands sharing a political will #expands (0.75) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 629