Action group social market economy
The Action Group for the Social Market Economy (ASM) is a registered non-profit association based in Tübingen . It is a liberal think tank of entrepreneurs and ordoliberals to promote the social market economy .
aims
According to the social scientist Ralf Ptak , the action group under the leadership of Alexander Rustow became an important institution for the transfer of ordoliberal ideas into the political arena in order to reach and influence a broader public beyond the purely scientific area. The political scientist Elmar Altvater saw it as an instrument for propagating the market economy. However, the institution, with its elitist-intellectual habitus, aimed more at a middle-class academic audience than it achieved a strategy of effective mass influence.
The social researchers Dieter Plehwe and Bernhard Walpen see the action group as a think tank in direct relation to the Mont Pelerin Society .
history
The association was founded on January 23, 1953 by the economist Otto Lautenbach. Lautenbach was previously the head of the Freiwirtschaftsbund , but after the war he came to the conviction that the main problem was not interest, as was seen by the social reformer Silvio Gesell , but that an increasingly rampant state activity should end in collectivism and a total state. Therefore, he fell out with the Freiwirtschafters and resigned from the Freiwirtschaftsbund together with several supporters. After Lautenbach's death in 1954, Alexander Rustow , who was already there when the ASM was founded, became the new chairman. The ASM became a forum that almost exclusively represented neoliberal positions.
The ASM was regarded as the “unofficial mouthpiece” of the federal government's economic policy and was particularly committed to the politics of Ludwig Erhard during the election campaign .
organization
Chairman of the board is Nils Goldschmidt . The managing director is Ute Friederich.
Jena call for renewal of the social market economy
The action group, represented at the time by Joachim Starbatty , was together with Michael Borchard ( Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung ), Uwe Cantner , Andreas Freytag and Rupert Windisch (Faculty of Economics at the University of Jena ), Nils Goldschmidt and Michael Wohlgemuth ( Walter Eucken Institute ), Gerd Habermann ( Die Familienunternehmer - ASU ), Martin Wilde ( Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs ), Lars Vogel ( Ludwig-Erhard-Stiftung ) and Joachim Zweynert ( Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut / Wilhelm-Röpke-Institut ) co-author of the Jena call for renewal of the social market economy initiated in 2008 . She is one of the initiators of the Jena Alliance for the Renewal of the Social Market Economy .
Alexander-Riistow badge
Since 1964, the association has awarded the Alexander-Rüstow-Plaque to personalities who have made a contribution to strengthening and developing the social market economy. Among the winners were:
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Alfred Müller-Armack Medal of Merit
Since 2016 she has awarded a Medal of Merit in memory of Alfred Müller-Armack . The winners were:
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bernhard Löffler, Social Market Economy and Administrative Practice: the Federal Ministry of Economics under Ludwig Erhard , Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-515-07940-2 , pp. 81-82
- ↑ Action Group Social Market Economy e. V. (ASM) , in: Hermann May, Claudia Wiepcke: Lexicon of economic education. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, 8th completely revised. and exp. Ed., ISBN 978-3-486-71733-4 , pp. 6-8; limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ Ralf Ptak: From Ordoliberalism to Social Market Economy - Stations of Neoliberalism in Germany , Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2004, p. 260.
- ↑ Elmar Altvater: “Globalized Neoliberalism”, in: Christoph Butterwegge et al .: Neoliberalism - Analyzes and Alternatives , Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 2008, pp. 50–68, here: p. 51.
- ↑ Ralf Ptak: From Ordoliberalism to Social Market Economy - Stations of Neoliberalism in Germany , Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2004, p. 280
- ↑ Dieter Plehwe, Bernhard Walpen: “Buena Vista Neoliberal?”, In: Klaus-Gerd Giesen: Ideologies in der Weltpolitik , Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 2004, p. 49-88, here: p. 83.
- ↑ Stephan Lindner, Neoliberale Think-Tanks in Germany, in Werner Rügemer (editor), The consultants: their work in state and society, transcript Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3899422597 , p. 53
- ↑ Cf. Dieter Haselbach : Authoritarian Liberalism and Social Market Economy - Society and Politics in Ordoliberalism , Baden-Baden, Nomos, 1991, pp. 213-214.
- ↑ Jena Call for the Renewal of the Social Market Economy (German)
- ↑ Winner of the Alexander-Rüstow-Plakette ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Action Group Social Market Economy, accessed on September 26, 2018.
- ↑ Alfred Müller-Armack Merit Medal ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Action Group Social Market Economy, accessed on September 26, 2018.
