Über die normativen Implikationen des Ordoliberalismus für die moderne Wirtschaftsethik

Eucken's writings are rich in content not only from an (constitutional) economic perspective but also from an economic and business ethics perspective - an often neglected perspective of the reception of German Ordoliberalism in general and the Freiburg School of Economics in particular. The paper gives a first insight into the ethical-normative thinking of Eucken, as one of the main representatives of Ordoliberalism, and explains Eucken's conception of Social Market Economy as a functioning and humane order as well as Eucken's Kantian understanding of freedom. To conclude the essay tries to classify Eucken's Ordoliberalism as a part of the spectrum of modern economic and business ethics. [PUB ABSTRACT]