Walter Eucken Institute

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The Walter Eucken Institut eV is a non-profit, independent social and economic research institution in the vicinity of the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg im Breisgau . It was founded in 1954 with the help of Ludwig Erhard and deals in particular with regulatory and economic issues in the sense of the ordoliberalism of the Freiburg School . The institute is named after Walter Eucken , one of the founders of ordoliberalism. Establishing also contributed Edith Eucken ERDSIEK , Eucken widow with.

The institute sees itself as a “center of excellence in basic research into regulatory policy and regulatory economics”. It publishes contributions to the discussion as well as series on regulatory research areas and deals with the edition of works by well-known representatives of the Freiburg School , for example a complete edition of the works of Friedrich August von Hayek . The institute organizes symposia and lecture series, for example the Freiburg call for political reform .

In the ranking of German-speaking economic research institutes carried out by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , which takes into account scientific output and influence in policy advice, the institute came in tenth place in 2013, leaving some significantly larger competitors behind. In 2015 the institute reached the fifth place.

Walter Eucken's estate was initially administered at the institute, and his study was also preserved. In 2000, during Lüder Gerken's tenure as managing researcher, the estate was given to the family who founded the Walter Eucken Archive . The institute itself continues to keep a large part of Karl Schiller's estate .

The institute is part of the liberal Stockholm Network . It is a co-initiator of the Jena Alliance for the Renewal of the Social Market Economy .

On the 60th anniversary of the institute's founding in January 2014, Federal President Joachim Gauck gave the keynote address.

Institute management

Friedrich August von Hayek was director of the institute from 1964 to 1970 , after which he was honorary president until 1992. Erich Hoppmann succeeded him as director of the institute. Viktor Vanberg was director from 2001 to August 2010 . Since September 1, 2010, the Walter Eucken Institute has been headed by Lars Feld . Nobel Prize winner James M. Buchanan served as Honorary President from 2004 until his death in January 2013.

The full list of the Institute's board members with their terms of office:

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Individual evidence

  1. Philip Plickert , Patrick Bernau : FAZ economists ranking. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 26, 2013.
  2. Patrick Bernau: FAZ economists ranking. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 5, 2015.
  3. ^ Walter Oswalt : Liberal opposition to the Nazi state. On the development of Walter Eucken's social theory. In: Nils Goldschmidt: Economy, Politics and Freedom. Freiburg economist and the resistance; Investigations on the theory of order and policy, vol. 48. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005, pp. 315–353. Quote from page 318.
  4. Albrecht von Lucke: The useful Herr Gauck , sheets for German and international politics , 3/2014, pp. 5-8.

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 20.1 ″  N , 7 ° 50 ′ 39.8 ″  E