Tumlir transposed German ordoliberal constitutionalism to the international scale.

Evidence

Tumlir arrived at his solution through a scale shift. He ­adopted Böhm’s call from the 1930s for a decisionistic “choice” of an “economic constitution” but took the step, which the German ­lawyer had not done, of transposing this method to the international scale. In an admiring essay, Tumlir noted the scarcity of the German jurist’s references to “the international matrix” and insisted that “an economic constitution is not complete without a theory of foreign economic policy and the ­legal control of it.” He proposed taking Böhm’s thought in two directions of practical application. The first was to develop “a theory (and binding articulation) of private rights with re­spect to foreign transactions.” — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 826

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the earlier chapters’ ordoliberal/German economic-constitution thread (Böhm, the Freiburg school) rather than leaving it nationally bounded. — connects to: The EU’s constitutional design embodies German ordoliberal principles — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 374; Ordoliberalism departed from classical liberalism by grounding markets in a constitutional framework — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1087; Ordoliberals saw the economic constitution as imposed by deliberate political will from above — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 697

Broader Connections

• Ordoliberalism departed from classical liberalism by grounding markets in a constitutional framework #expands (0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1087
• Ordoliberals saw the economic constitution as imposed by deliberate political will from above #responds-to (0.72) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 697