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The '''Freiburg school''' ({{langx|de|Freiburger Schule}}) is a [[School of thought|school]] of [[History of economic thought|economic thought]] founded in the 1930s at the [[University of Freiburg]].

It builds somewhat on the earlier [[historical school of economics]] but stresses that only some forms of competition are good, while others may require oversight. This is considered a lawful and legitimate role of government in a democracy in the Freiburg school.<ref name="general description">{{cite web | last = Feasel | first = Kevin | author-link = Kevin Feasel | title = The Freiburg school of economics |date=July 2008 | url = http://36chambers.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/the-freiburg-school-of-economics/ | access-date=August 1, 2009}}</ref> The Freiburg school provided the economic theoretical elements of [[ordoliberalism]] and the [[social market economy]] in post-war Germany.

The Freiburg school of economics was called "[[neoliberalism]]" until Anglo-American scholars reappropriated the term.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Boas |first1=Taylor C. |last2=Gans-Morse |first2=Jordan |title=Neoliberalism: From New Liberal Philosophy to Anti-Liberal Slogan |journal=Studies in Comparative International Development |date=1 June 2009 |volume=44 |issue=2 |page=145 |doi=10.1007/s12116-009-9040-5 |language=en |issn=1936-6167|doi-access=free |url=https://escholarship.org/content/qt976373v9/qt976373v9.pdf?t=l7nx9c }}</ref>

==Adherents==
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* [[Franz Böhm]]<ref>Blumenberg-Lampe, Christine (2004). "Franz Böhm". Christliche Demokraten gegen Hitler: Aus Verfolgung und Widerstand zur Union. Ed. Buchstab, Günter; Kaff, Brigitte; Kleinmann, Hans-Otto. Freiburg, Germany: Herder, 2004. 108. Print.</ref>
* [[Juergen B. Donges]]
* [[Ludwig Erhard]]
* [[Walter Eucken]]<ref name=Bio1>{{cite web|url=http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz13830.html|title=Biografie Walter Eucken (German)|publisher=Bayerische Nationalbibliothek|access-date=5 August 2015}}</ref>
* [[Edith Eucken-Erdsiek]]
* [[Andreas Freytag]]
* {{ill|Hans Gestrich|de}}
* {{ill|Hans Großmann-Doerth|de}}
* [[Paul Hensel]]
* [[Michael Hüther]]
* {{ill|Wolfgang Kitterer|de}}
* [[Friedrich Lutz (economist)|Friedrich A. Lutz]]
* [[Karl-Friedrich Maier]]
* {{ill|Fritz W. Meyer|de}}
* {{ill|Leonhard Miksch|de}}
* {{ill|Bernd Raffelhüschen|de}}
* [[Hans-Werner Sinn]]
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[[Wilhelm Röpke]] (from the [[Austrian school of economics|Austrian school]]), [[Alfred Müller-Armack]] and [[Alexander Rüstow]] were not members of the Freiburg school but did provide, together with the Freiburg school, the foundations of ordoliberalism.

==See also==  
* [[Freiburg Circles]]  
*[[ORDO (journal)]]
*[[Social market economy]]
*[[Historical school of economics]]

==References==
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==Sources==
*{{cite book|author=Nils Goldschmidt|title=Wirtschaft, Politik und Freiheit: Freiburger Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und der Widerstand|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SvNEWSk_HFQC|access-date=14 September 2014|year=2005|publisher=Mohr Siebeck|isbn=978-3-16-148520-6}} p. 315.
*[[Springer Gabler|Gabler Verlag]] (Herausgeber), Gabler Wirtschaftslexikon, Stichwort: Freiburger Schule ([http://wirtschaftslexikon.gabler.de/Archiv/7246/freiburger-schule-v8.html online])
*{{cite book |first=Walter |last=Oswalt |chapter=Zur Einführung: Walter Eucken (1891–1950) |editor1-first=Nils |editor1-last=Goldschmidt |editor2-first=Michael |editor2-last=Wohlgemuth |title=Grundtexte zur Freiburger Tradition der Ordnungsökonomik |isbn=978-3-16-148297-7 |page=128 |language=de}}

==External links==
* [https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/4343 EconStor: The Freiburg School: Walter Eucken and Ordoliberalism]

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