TY  - RPRT
A1  - Wörsdörfer, Manuel
T1  - Individual versus regulatory ethics: an economic-ethical and theoretical-historical analysis of german neoliberalism
N2  - Following Foucault's analysis of German Neoliberalism (Ordoliberalism) and his thesis of ambiguity, this paper introduces a two-level distinction between individual and regulatory ethics. In particular, its aim is to reassess the importance of individual ethics in the conceptual framework of Ordoliberalism. The individual ethics of Ordoliberalism is based on the heritage of Judeo-Christian values and the Kantian individual liberty and responsibility. The regulatory or formal-institutional ethics of Ordoliberalism which has so far received most attention on the contrary refers to the institutional and legal framework of a socio-economic order. By distinguishing these two dimensions of ethics incorporated in German Neoliberalism, it is feasible to distinguish different varieties of neoliberalism and to link Ordoliberalism to modern economic ethics.
KW  - Neoliberalism
KW  - Ordoliberalism
KW  - Freiburg School of Economics
KW  - Individual Ethics
KW  - Regulatory Ethics
KW  - Michel Foucault
Y1  - 2013
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/33284
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-332845
UR  - http://ssrn.com/abstract=2354439
N1  - Forthcoming in: OEconomia. History, Methodology, Philosophy Vol. III-4-2013.
SP  - 1
EP  - 28
ER  -