id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9804 Wilhelm Röpke - Wikipedia .html text/html 2340 385 52 Wilhelm Röpke (October 10, 1899 – February 12, 1966) was Professor of Economics, first in Jena, then in Graz, Marburg, Istanbul, and finally Geneva, Switzerland, and one of the spiritual fathers of the social market economy, theorising and collaborating 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).[1] In his youth, Röpke was first inspired by socialism and afterwards by the Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises.[3] Despite this, the post-World War II economic liberation enabling Germany to once again lead Europe, which Röpke and his allies (Walter Eucken, Franz Böhm, Alfred Müller-Armack and Alexander Rüstow) were the intellectual muscle behind, occurred by implementing policy divergent to that advocated by Ludwig von Mises. Wilhelm Röpke – Library Collections (German Page) – Library of the Institute for Economic Policy, University of Cologne, Germany ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9804.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9804.txt