Wilhelm Röpke
Born
in Schwarmstedt, Germany
October 10, 1899
Died
February 12, 1966
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A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market
30 editions
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1958
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The Social Crisis of Our Time
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8 editions
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published
1942
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The German Question
8 editions
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published
1945
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Economics of the Free Society
14 editions
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published
1937
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Crises and Cycles
6 editions
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published
1932
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The Moral Foundations of Civil Society
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2 editions
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published
1947
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Against the Tide
9 editions
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published
1959
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International order and economic integration
12 editions
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published
1945
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Welfare, Freedom and Inflation
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1969
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International economic disintegration
7 editions
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1942
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“In spite of its alluring name, the welfare state stands or falls by compulsion. It is compulsion imposed upon us with the state’s power to punish noncompliance. Once this is clear, it is equally clear that the welfare state is an evil the same as every restriction of freedom.”
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“Whether in Bolshevism, Fascism, or Nazism, we meet continually with the forcible and ruthless usurpation of the power of the State by a minority drawn from the masses, resting on their support, flattering them and threatening them at the same time; a minority led by a charismatic leader and brazenly identifying itself with the State. It is a tyranny that does away with all the guarantees of the constitutional State, constituting as the only party the minority that has created it, furnishing that party with far-reaching judicial and administrative functions, and permitting within the whole life of the nation no groups, no activities, no opinions, no associations or religions, no publications, no educational institutions, no business transactions, that are not dependent on the will of the Government.”
― The German Question
― The German Question
“The more we gained knowledge of these new totalitarian systems of mass-rule, the more we realized not only their similarity of structure, but also the fact that we had to do with a type of dominance that had been known in earlier epochs. We discovered that what the ancients called “tyrannis,â€� or 'cheirokratia,â€� what Sulla or the tyrants of the Italian Rennaissance had practised, and what finally alarmed the world in the French Revolution and under Napoleon, had surprisingly many similarities with modern totalitarianism, although this latter had elements with which they cannot be compared, and although it possessed means of domination unknown in past ages.”
― The German Question
― The German Question
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