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Wilhelm Röpke

1899–1966

Also known as: Wilhelm Ropke, Roepke

How Wilhelm Röpke is discussed in this archive

Referenced in 2 other works — including Are There Monopolies and Concentration of Economic Power in India? , and Free Enterprise in India: A Call for Leadership - A.D. Shroff, 1961 .

In Are There Monopolies and Concentration of Economic Power in India? : Roepke's Economics of the Free Society supplies the booklet's Appendix of selected quotations, providing the classical-liberal theoretical scaffolding behind Venkatasubbiah and Lalbhai's specifically Indian critiques.

In Free Enterprise in India: A Call for Leadership - A.D. Shroff, 1961 : Shroff invokes Röpke's authority as the architect of West Germany's economic miracle to support his critique of Indian planning's disregard for the time-value of economic commitment, grounding the speech in European ordoliberal thought.

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Primary works (1)

  • Are There Monopolies and Concentration of Economic Power in India? · 1964
    • "an Appendix of selected quotations from Wilhelm Roepke's Economics of the Free Society." — Roepke's Economics of the Free Society is reproduced as the theoretical appendix that grounds the Indian critique in classical-liberal economics
    • "The Roepke appendix and the closing A. D. Shroff and Eugene Black aphorisms tie the booklet's particular Indian arguments into the Forum's broader classical-liberal frame" — Roepke's selections are explicitly the bridge between the booklet's Indian arguments and the Forum's broader free-enterprise worldview

Excerpts (1)

  • Free Enterprise in India: A Call for Leadership - A.D. Shroff, 1961
    • "Vilhelm Roepke, eminent economist who was in no small measure responsible for the Economic Miracle in West Germany" — Röpke's credentials anchor Shroff's use of his warning about underdeveloped countries transplanting Western industrial forms without their underlying conditions