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The purpose of this entry is to delineate the political economy of Wilhelm Röpke. To reach this goal, a history of economics approach is harnessed. First, the entry concisely reconstructs Röpke’s life, intellectual evolution, and heritage. Second, it presents the specificities of his perspective on economic embeddedness focused on the stability of social order and on the role of informal institutions as indispensable stabilizers of this order.

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  1. Wilhelm Röpke Institute, Erfurt and University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, Dr.-Friedrichs-Ring 2A, 08056, Zwickau, Germany

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Kolev, S. (2017). Röpke, Wilhelm. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_622-2

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