Individual and regulatory ethics: an economic-ethical and theoretical-historical analysis of ordoliberalism

Based on Foucault’s analysis of German Neoliberalism and his thesis of ambiguity, the following paper draws a two-level distinction between individual and regulatory ethics. The individual ethics level – which has received surprisingly little attention – contains the Christian foundation of values and the liberal-Kantian heritage of so called Ordoliberalism – as one variety of neoliberalism. The regulatory or formal-institutional ethics level on the contrary refers to the ordoliberal framework of a socio-economic order. By differentiating these two levels of ethics incorporated in German Neoliberalism, it is feasible to distinguish dissimilar varieties of neoliberalism and to link Ordoliberalism to modern economic ethics. Furthermore, it allows a revision of the dominant reception of Ordoliberalism which focuses solely on the formal-institutional level while mainly neglecting the individual ethics level.

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Author:Manuel Wörsdörfer
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-113315
Series (Serial Number)Normative Orders Working Paper (2011, 07)
Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):24.08.2011
Year of first Publication:2011
Publishing Institution:Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Tag:Individual Ethics ; Michel Foucault ; Neoliberalism ; Regulatory Ethics ; Walter Eucken
HeBIS PPN:27476573X
Institutes:Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Exzellenzcluster "Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen"
Dewey Decimal Classification:330 Wirtschaft
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
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