Origins and Change of the Social Market Economy: History and Theoretical Foundations

Introduction -- Origins and Change in the Concept of Social Market Economy -- The end of laissez-faire“ – Keynes and Ordoliberalism -- The end of laissez-faire -- Wilhelm Röpke’s ecological Social Market Economy -- Goetz Briefs’ socially tempered capitalism -- Health Policies in the Social Market Economy -- The Muthesius Circle: Financial Journalism in the 1950s -- Social Market Economy and Human Rights – A Global Perspective -- The ownership concept in the “Socialist” Political Economy.