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Boettke, P., Candela, R. Liberalism in Crisis and the Promise of a Reconstructed Liberalism. Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 139(2–4), 189-212. https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.139.2-4.189
Boettke, Peter J. and Candela, Rosolino "Liberalism in Crisis and the Promise of a Reconstructed Liberalism" Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch 139.2–4, 2019, 189-212. https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.139.2-4.189
Boettke, Peter J./Candela, Rosolino (2019): Liberalism in Crisis and the Promise of a Reconstructed Liberalism, in: Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, vol. 139, iss. 2–4, 189-212, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.139.2-4.189

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Liberalism in Crisis and the Promise of a Reconstructed Liberalism

Boettke, Peter J. | Candela, Rosolino

Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 139 (2019), Iss. 2–4 : pp. 189–212

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Boettke, Peter J., Department of Economics and F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Buchanan Hall D109, PPE 1 A1, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA.

Candela, Rosolino, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Buchanan Hall D119, PPE 1 A1, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA.

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Abstract

What explains the simultaneous critiques of economic theory and liberalism during the 1930s? Early neoclassical economists had a common understanding of the proper institutional context undergirding a liberal market order. From the marginal revolution emerged a growing emphasis on analyzing markets as equilibrium states rather than processes. Because the institutions that frame a liberal market order were taken as given, to the point of relative neglect, this resulted in the notion that markets operated in an institutional vacuum. The resulting association of liberalism with laissez-faire, therefore, prompted a restatement of the role institutions play in the operation of a liberal market order.