Economics

This volume of Walter Eucken's Collected Writings presents a selection of letters from the years 1933 to 1945 that provide new insights into a range of personal and scholarly relationships and are an important source for the genesis of Eucken's two major works.

This volume of Walter Eucken's Collected Writings presents a selection of letters from the years 1933 to 1945 that provide new insights into a range of personal and scholarly relationships and are an important source for the genesis of Eucken's two major works.

Diagnoses of a widespread »irrationality« of private households in financial matters belong to the standard repertoire of financial self-help literature. Philipp Neeb traces the historical emergence of expectations of rationality within this genre and, from a sociological perspective, exposes their latencies and consequential problems.

The works collected in this volume span a period of three decades in Walter Eucken's scientific oeuvre, from 1921 to 1950. The theme that connects them is the perception of the present as a time of crisis and the question of where the causes of the crisis are to be seen and how their solution can be found. The volume also traces the development of the ordoliberal research program.