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Wilhelm Röpke Quotes

1899–1966 Germany

Wilhelm Röpke (October 10, 1899 – February 12, 1966) was a German economist and social critic, best known as one of the spiritual fathers of the social market economy. A Professor of Economics, first in Jena, then in Graz, Marburg, Istanbul, and finally Geneva, Switzerland, Röpke theorised and collaborated to organise the post-World War II economic re-awakening of the war-wrecked German economy, deploying a program sometimes referred to as the sociological neoliberalism (compared to ordoliberalism, a more sociologically inclined variant of German liberalism).

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The processes peculiar to economic life in a free society make evident the fundamental superiority of the spontaneous order over the commanded order.

Economics of the Free Society (1937)

The questionable things of this world come to grief on their nature, the good ones on their own excesses.

A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market (1958)

We seem to have proved the existence of God in yet another way: by the practical consequences of His assumed non-existence.

A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market (1958)

The place of any good in this scale of values is determined ultimately by the strength of the subjective demand for it.

Economics of the Free Society (1937)

However, and here we return again to our main theme, we would merely be deluding ourselves if we drew such a sharp dividing line between the realm of the spirit and the conditions of man's existence.

A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market (1958)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wilhelm Röpke (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.