ordoliberalism to break the deadlock

2023-04-19 16:51:00

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INTERVIEW. Essayist Alexis Karklins-Marchay promotes ce current of thought, between radical socialism and limitless liberalism, as a remedy for the excesses of neoliberalism.

Interview by Saïd Mahrane

The mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard (here alongside Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne in Paris, November 24, 2022), currently embodies, in France, the current of political thought of ordoliberalism, according to essayist Alexis Karklins-Marchay.
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Published on 04/19/2023 at 4:51 p.m.

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Le liberalism can be « neo », « hyper », « ultra »but also « ordo ». What is ordoliberalism? Few know him, and yet he would benefit from being defended a little more, if only for his sense of moderation and humanism, in a world plagued by many radicalities. Theorized by the German economist Wilhelm Röpke (1899-1966)an economist of German origin, this political philosophy is based on a market economy, not without a rejection of consumerism, individualism, money king, in addition to advocating a rehabilitation of the role of the State.

Not an interventionist, planner and omnipotent State, but a State vigilant as to the good rules of competition and the fate of the most deprived. Franco-American essayist Alexis Karklins-Marcha…