Conservative Liberalism, Ordo-liberalism, and the State
«... the final part of Dyson's book explores the conditions of its success or failure as an economic doctrine and as a policy practice in comparative perspective. This transnational investigation, based on rich sources, is in itself a great strength of the book.»
Hugo Canihac, Oeconomia
This book uses extensive original archival and elite interview research to examine the attempt to rejuvenate liberalism as a means of disciplining democracy and the market through a new rule-based economic and political order. Les mer
Conservative liberalism evolved as a cross-national phenomenon. It included such eminent and cultured liberal economists as James Buchanan, Frank Knight, Henry Simons, Ralph Hawtrey, Jacques Rueff, Luigi Einaudi, Walter Eucken, Friedrich Hayek, Alfred Muller-Armack, Wilhelm Roepke, Alexander Rustow,
and Paul van Zeeland, as well as leading lawyers like Louis Brandeis, Franz Boehm, and Maurice Hauriou. Conservative liberals also played a formative role in establishing new international networks, notably the Mont Pelerin Society.
The book investigates the rich intellectual inheritance of this variant of new liberalism from aristocratic liberalism, ethical philosophy, and religious thought. It also locates the social basis of conservative liberalism and Ordo-liberalism in the cultivated bourgeois intelligentsia. The book goes on to examine the attempts to embed this new disciplinary form of liberalism in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States, and to consider the determinants of its varying significance
across space and over time. It concludes by assessing the historical significance and contemporary relevance of conservative liberalism and Ordo-liberalism as liberalism confronts a new transformational crisis at the beginning of the new millennium. Is their promise of disciplining democracy and the
market a hollow one?
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780198854289
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 24 x 17 cm
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«... the final part of Dyson's book explores the conditions of its success or failure as an economic doctrine and as a policy practice in comparative perspective. This transnational investigation, based on rich sources, is in itself a great strength of the book.»
Hugo Canihac, Oeconomia
«This book provides a great contribution to the literature concerning the economic thought and policy of the centre-right political tradition that refers to conservative social philosophy and liberal economics.»
Luca Sandonà, History of Economic Thought and Policy
«Kenneth Dyson has written a superb book: rich in its historical detail, clear in its analysis, and original in its main thesis. It is also wonderfully ambitious.»
Molte Dold and Tim Krieger, Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi
«an academic masterpiece»
Ivo Maes, Journal of European Integration History