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Why devote an essay to this particular man when other chapters survey the collective efforts, views and achievements of the group known as Ordo-liberals? The reason is that Franz Böhm was more than a leading thinker of the group; in my view he was instrumental to its political effect.
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This certainly refers to Thomas Mann’s story of 1926, Unordnung und frühes Leid (Disorder and Early Sorrow), which depicts the penurious existence of Professor Cornelius and his family during the inflation. The children, as ‘geborene Villenproletarier’, do not notice the contrast between their poverty (despite an income of millions) and the residue of earlier prosperity. The Professor reflects upon justice, which is the spirit of scholarship, but also identical with melancholy: justice sympathises with those who have no future.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Der geschlossene Handelsstaat, published in Berlin in 1800.
Franz Böhm, Reden und Schriften (Karlsruhe: C. F. Müller, 1960) p. 39.
E. W. Böckenforde (ed.), Moderne deutsche Verfassungsgeschichte, 1815– 1918 (Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1972).
Roman law distinguishes between private and public law: within the latter category, the Germans distinguish between criminal law (Strafrecht), state law (Staatsrecht), administrative law (Verwaltungsrecht), and constitutional law (Verfassungsrecht), though Carl Schmitt has in fact written on both Staatsrecht and Verfassungsrecht, as well as international law. On the predominance of public lawyers in Germany and the consequences, see Friedrich A. von Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty, I (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973) pp. 133–4.
Carl Schmitt, Der Hüter der Verfassung (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1931) p. 79.
Böhm, Reden und Schriften, op. cit., p. 171.
Böhm, Freiheit und Ordnung in der Marktwirtschaft (Baden Baden: Nomos, 1980) p. 142.
Ibid., p. 96.
Ibid., p. 72.
Walter Eucken, Grundsätze der Wirtschaftspolitik (Bern and Tübingen: Francke and J. C. B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1968) pp. 243–4, 373–4.
Böhm, Reden und Schriften, op. cit., p. 55.
Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker, Der verwaltete Wettbewerb (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1984).
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Tumlir, J. (1989). Franz Böhm and the Development of Economic-constitutional Analysis. In: Peacock, A., Willgerodt, H. (eds) German Neo-Liberals and the Social Market Economy. Trade Policy Research Centre. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20148-8_6
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