From A Fading Miracle on NRO Weekend:
Often called โneo-liberalsโ or โordo-liberal,s, economists such as Wilhelm Rรถpke had long criticized Germanyโs slide toward collectivism. This, they argued, began when the โIron Chancellor,โ Otto von Bismarck, instituted tariffs in 1878, and ended in the nightmare of Hitlerโs war economy.
A passionate anti-Nazi, Rรถpke fled Germany in 1933. Interestingly, Rรถpkeโs anti-Nazism included powerful critiques of the socialist aspects of the National Socialistsโ program. Unlike the Nazi regime, the ordo-liberals believed in free enterprise and markets. The stateโs role, they stressed, was to uphold monetary stability, the rule of law, contracts, property rights, and open markets, and to inhibit attempts by businesses to establish cartels and unions to create labor monopolies.






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