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The purpose of this entry is to delineate the political economy of Walter Eucken. To reach this goal, a history of economics approach is harnessed. First, the entry concisely reconstructs Eucken’s life, intellectual evolution, and heritage. Second, it presents the specificities of his “theory of orders” and his “order-based policy” gateway to a rule-based political economy.
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Kolev, S. (2019). Eucken, Walter. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G.B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7753-2_210
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