Literature on Ordnungspolitik
Below you will find a selection of recommended reading on the topic of Ordnungspolitik. We have listed the basic literature of the founders of Ordnungspolitik.
Franz Böhm (1895-1977)
Böhm, Franz – The Problem of Private Power, in: Die Justiz, Vol. 3 (1928), pp. 324-345. [Reprinted in: Mestmäcker, Ernst-Joachim (ed.): Speeches and Writings on the Order of a Free Society, a Free Economy, and on Reparations. Karlsruhe 1960, pp. 25-45.]
Böhm, Franz – Competition and Monopoly War. An Investigation into the Question of Economic Law and the Legal Structure of the Current Economic Order, Berlin 1933.
Böhm, Franz – Cartels and Freedom of Association, Berlin 1933.
Böhm, Franz – Law and Power, in: Die Tatwelt, Vol. 10 (1934), pp. 115-132 and 169-193.
Böhm, Franz – The economic order as a central concept of commercial law, in: Communications of the Jena Institute for Commercial Law, Issue 31 (1936), pp. 3-14.
Böhm, Franz – The Order of the Economy as a Historical Task and Law-Creating Achievement, Order of the Economy, Vol. 1 (edited by Franz Böhm, Walter Eucken and Hans Großmann-Doerth), Stuttgart, Berlin 1937.
Böhm, Franz – Competition as an Instrument of State Economic Control, in: Schmölders, Günter (ed.): Competition as a Means of Economic Performance Improvement and Performance Selection (Publications of the Academy for German Law: Economics Group). Berlin 1942, pp. 4–98.
Böhm, Franz – The Significance of the Economic Order for the Political Constitution, in: Süddeutsche Juristen-Zeitung, Vol. 1 (1946), pp. 141-149. [Reprinted in: Mestmäcker, Ernst-Joachim (ed.): Speeches and Writings on the Order of a Free Society, a Free Economy, and on Reparations. Karlsruhe 1960, pp. 46-48.]
Böhm, Franz – Economic Order and Constitution, Tübingen 1950. [Reprinted in: Mestmäcker, Ernst-Joachim (ed.): Freedom and Order in the Market Economy, Baden-Baden 1980, pp. 53-104.]
Böhm, Franz – The Tasks of the Free Market Economy - Unresolved Questions, Especially the Monopoly Problem (Publications of the School of Political Science, Vol. 14). Munich 1951.
Böhm, Franz – The Economic Co-determination Right of Workers in the Company, in: ORDO, Vol. 4 (1951), pp. 21-250. [Reprinted in: Mestmäcker, Ernst-Joachim (ed.): Freedom and Order in the Market Economy, Baden-Baden 1980, pp. 315-506.]
Böhm, Franz – Complete competition and antimonopoly legislation, in: Economy and Competition, Vol. 3 (1953), pp. 178-192.
Böhm, Franz – We demand full competition from the government and the Bundestag, in: Lang, Johann / Rüstow, Alexander / Lauterbach, Otto / Böhm, Franz / Schmölders, Günter / Forberg, Kurt / Hellwig, Fritz / Lutz Friedrich / Erhard, Ludwig / Ilau, Hans / Meier-Lenoir, Alexander: We demand the completion of the social market economy from the government and the Bundestag. Text of the lectures given at the second conference of the Social Market Economy Action Group on November 18 and 19, 1953, in Bad Godesberg. Bad Nauheim 1954, pp. 29-44.
Böhm, Franz – Social policy in the market economy, in: Social Progress, Vol. 3 (1954), pp. 125-130.
Böhm, Franz – Protection against competitive advantage, in: Erhard, Ludwig / Lang, Johann / Schmölders, Günter / Pfister, Bernhard / Dresbach, August / Frickhöfer, Wolfgang / Niehaus, Heinrich / Böhm, Franz / Rüstow, Alexander: We demand a clear-cut economic and social policy: Out of the swamp of half-measures and inconsistencies. Text of the lectures given at the third conference of the Social Market Economy Action Group on April 28 and 29, 1955, in Bad Godesberg, Ludwigsburg 1955, pp. 89-113.
Böhm, Franz – Freedom of Competition and Cartel Freedom, in: ORDO, Vol. 10 (1958), pp. 167-203. [Reprinted in: Mestmäcker, Ernst-Joachim (ed.): Freedom and Order in the Market Economy, Baden-Baden 1980, pp. 233-262.]
Böhm, Franz – The Four Pillars of Freedom, in: Rüstow, Alexander / Röpke, Wilhelm / Gather, Gernot / Böhm, Franz / Frickhöfer, Wolfgang / Friedrich, Carl Joachim: What Must the Free World Do? Lectures at the thirteenth conference of the Action Group for a Social Market Economy on June 10, 1959, in Bad Godesberg, Ludwigsburg 1959, pp. 40-59.
Böhm, Franz – Democracy and Economic Power, Institute for Foreign and International Business Law (ed.): Cartels and Monopolies in Modern Law. Contributions to Supranational and National European and American Law, presented for the International Antitrust Conference in Frankfurt am Main, June 1960, Karlsruhe 1961, pp. 1-24.
Böhm, Franz – The threat to freedom through private economic power in today’s society, in: Universitas – Journal for Science, Art and Literature, Vol. 18 (1963), pp. 37-48.
Böhm, Franz – Private Law Society and Market Economy, in: ORDO, Vol. 17 (1966), pp. 75-151. [Reprinted in: Mestmäcker, Ernst-Joachim (ed.): Freedom and Order in the Market Economy. Baden-Baden 1980, pp. 105-168.]
Böhm, Franz – The Law of International Cartels, in: ORDO, Vol. 20 (1969), pp. 295-332. [Reprinted in: Mestmäcker, Ernst-Joachim (ed.): Freedom and Order in the Market Economy. Baden-Baden 1980, pp. 263-294.]
Böhm, Franz – Freedom and Order in the Market Economy, in: ORDO, Vol. 22 (1971), pp. 11-27. [Reprinted in: Mestmäcker, Ernst-Joachim (ed.): Freedom and Order in the Market Economy, Baden-Baden 1980, pp. 195-212.]
Böhm, Franz – Economic Order and the Law of History, in: Bickel, Wilhelm (ed.): Understanding and Shaping the Economy. A commemorative volume for Friedrich A. Lutz on the occasion of his 70th birthday on December 29, 1971. Tübingen 1971, pp. 29-57. [Reprinted in: Mestmäcker, Ernst-Joachim (ed.): Freedom and Order in the Market Economy, Baden-Baden 1980, pp. 169-194.]
Böhm, Franz – Co-determination as equal rights for capital and labor or as a contractual right of employees arising from the employment relationship, in: Böhm, Franz / Briefs, Goetz (eds.): Co-determination – Element of Order or Political Compromise. Stuttgart 1971, pp. 206-234. [Reprinted in: Mestmäcker, Ernst-Joachim (ed.): Freedom and Order in the Market Economy, Baden-Baden 1980, pp. 543-568.]
Böhm, Franz – A Challenge to Order Theory and Order Policy. Regarding an essay in Kyklos, in: ORDO, Vol. 24 (1973), pp. 11-48.
Ludwig Erhard (1897-1977)
Erhard, Ludwig – Bundestag Speeches, edited by Rainer Barzel, Bonn 1972.
Erhard, Ludwig – German Economic Policy – The Road to the Social Market Economy, Düsseldorf 1962.
Erhard, Ludwig – Germany’s Return to the World Market, Düsseldorf 1953. (2nd ed. 1954).
Erhard, Ludwig – Thoughts from Five Decades – Speeches and Writings, edited by Karl Hohmann, Düsseldorf 1988.
Erhard, Ludwig – War Financing and Debt Consolidation. Facsimile print of the memorandum of 1943/44. Frankfurt am Main 1977. (New edition with a foreword by Chancellor Helmut Kohl on the occasion of his 100th birthday, Frankfurt am Main 1997.)
Erhard, Ludwig – Social Market Economy – Order of the Future. Manifesto '72, edited by Ludwig Erhard and Alfred Müller-Armack, Berlin 1972.
Erhard, Ludwig – Prosperity for All, Düsseldorf 1957. (Updated edition in 1990 and 1997 on the occasion of Ludwig Erhard's 100th birthday with a foreword by Chancellor Helmut Kohl.)
Selection of writings about Ludwig Erhard
Altmann, Rüdiger – Economic Policy and Statecraft – The Impact of Ludwig Erhard, Bonn 1977.
Biedenkopf, Kurt – Ludwig Erhard and the political parties, in: Ludwig Erhard Foundation (ed.): Ludwig Erhard and his politics, Stuttgart/New York 1985.
Hohmann, Karl – Ludwig Erhard (1897 – 1977) – A Biography, Düsseldorf 1997.
Ludwig Erhard Foundation Bonn (ed.) – The Social Market Economy as a Historic Turning Point. Assessments and Outlooks. A Festschrift for the Centenary of Ludwig Erhard's Birthday, Düsseldorf 1997.
Metz, Andreas – The Unequal Founding Fathers – Adenauer’s and Erhard’s Long Road to the Top of the Federal Republic, Konstanz 1998.
Völklein, Ulrich – Ludwig Erhard – Rubble, Dreams, and a Man of Action. A Portrait, Düsseldorf 1997.
Walter Eucken (1891-1950)
BÖHM, Franz / EUCKEN, Walter / GROSSMANN-DOERTH, Hans (1937). Our Task. (Introduction by the editors). In: BÖHM, Franz (1937). The Order of the Economy as a Historical Task and Legal Achievement. Stuttgart and Berlin: Kohlhammer. pp. VII-XXI. (Ordnung der Wirtschaft, Heft 1).
EUCKEN, Walter (1925). Socialism and Enlightenment. Critical Reflections on Sombart's 'Socialism'. The Euckenbund, Vol. 1, Issue 3 (March). pp. 29-32. (Under the pseudonym Dr. Kurt Heinrich).
EUCKEN, Walter (1925). On the Critique of Socialism. Die Tatwelt (formerly "Der Euckenbund"), Vol. 1, Issue 4 (April). pp. 37-42. (Under the pseudonym Dr. Kurt Heinrich).
EUCKEN, Walter (1932). State Structural Changes and the Crisis of Capitalism. World Economic Archives, Volume 36, pp. 297-321. Reprinted (1997): ORDO, Yearbook for the Order of Economy and Society, Volume 48. Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius. pp. 5-24. (With a foreword by the ORDO editorial board. pp. 3-4.)
EUCKEN, Walter (1934). What does economic theory achieve? In: EUCKEN, Walter (1934). Capital Theory Investigations. Jena: Gustav Fischer. pp. 1-51. (Problems of Theoretical Economics, Volume 1).
EUCKEN, Walter (1937). The Achievement of German Economics. Remarks following a paper by Hans Gehrig. Yearbooks of National Economics and Statistics, Volume 146. Jena: Gustav Fischer. pp. 225-231.
EUCKEN, Walter (1938). Overcoming Historicism. Schmoller's Yearbook for Legislation, Administration, and Economics in the German Empire, 62nd year. Munich, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 63-86.
EUCKEN, Walter (1938). National Economics - What for? Leipzig: Felix Meiner. 64 pp. (Science and the Spirit of the Times, Issue 10). 2nd expanded edition 1947: Godesberg: Küpper. 90 pp. 3rd revised edition 1947: Godesberg: Küpper. 96 pp. 4th unchanged edition 1961: Düsseldorf, Munich: Küpper formerly Bondi. 67 pp.
EUCKEN, Walter (1940). The Economic Process as a Temporal Process. Yearbooks of National Economics and Statistics, Volume 152. Jena: Gustav Fischer. pp. 113–152. Reprinted in: EUCKEN, Walter (1954). Capital Theory Investigations. 2nd revised edition. Tübingen: JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck). pp. 223–262.
EUCKEN, Walter (1940). The Foundations of Economics. Jena: Gustav Fischer. 300 pp. ( 12). 2nd revised edition, 1941.
EUCKEN, Walter (1942). Competition as a Fundamental Principle of Economic Governance. In: SCHMÖLDERS, Günter (ed.). (1942). Competition as a Means of Economic Performance Improvement and Merit Selection. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 29–49. (Publications of the Academy of German Law: Economics Group, Issue 6).
EUCKEN, Walter (1944). The Temporal Control of the Economic Process and the Structure of Economic Orders. Yearbooks of National Economics and Statistics, Volume 159. Jena: Gustav Fischer. pp. 161–221.
EUCKEN, Walter (1949). The competitive order and its implementation. ORDO, Yearbook for the Order of Economy and Society, Volume 2. Düsseldorf, Munich: Küpper vorm. Bondi. pp. 1-99.
EUCKEN, Walter (1950). Technology, Concentration, and Economic Order. ORDO, Yearbook for the Order of Economy and Society, Volume 3. Düsseldorf, Munich: Küpper vorm. Bondi. pp. 3-17.
EUCKEN, Walter (1951). The Development of Economic Thought. In:
EUCKEN, Walter (1952). Principles of Economic Policy. Edith Eucken and K. Paul Hensel. (With a foreword by LUTZ, Friedrich A.). Tübingen: JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck). Bern: Francke. 396 pp. ( 19). (Handbooks and textbooks in the field of social sciences). 2nd unchanged edition 1955: Tübingen: JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck).
EUCKEN, Walter (1971). The Politics of Competition: Social Policy. In: KÜLP, Bernhard / SCHREIBER, Wilfrid (eds.). (1971). Social Security. Cologne, Berlin: Kiepenheuer & Witsch. pp. 35-45. (Reprint of Section III "Social Policy," Chapter XVIII from: EUCKEN, Walter (1960). Principles of Economic Policy. 3rd edition. Tübingen: JCBMohr (Paul Siebeck). pp. 312-324.)
EUCKEN, Walter (1999). Regulatory Policy. Edited by Walter Oswalt. Münster: Lit-Verlag. 96 pp. ( III). (Walter Eucken Archive: Second Enlightenment Series, Volume 1).
Selection of writings about Walter Eucken
Külp, Bernhard (ed.) - Freedom and Competitive Order: Commemorative Volume in Memory of Walter Eucken (Institute for General Economic Research at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg im Breisgau), Freiburg 2000.
Lösch, Dieter - The dilemma with the role of the state in the competition order: on the 50th anniversary of the death of Walter Eucken, in: Wirtschaftsdienst: Journal of Economic Policy, Vol. 80 (2000), Issue 3, pp. 185-192.
Walter Eucken Institute (ed.) - Order in Freedom: Symposium on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Walter Eucken's birthday on January 17, 1991, Tübingen 1992.
Hans Grossmann-Doerth (1894-1944)
GROSSMANN-DOERTH, HANS - The Law of Overseas Purchases, J. Bensheimer, Mannheim 1930.
GROSSMANN-DOERTH, HANS - Self-Created Economic Law and State Law, Wagnersche Univ. Buchhandlung, Freiburg 1933.
GROSSMANN-DOERTH, HANS - The legal consequences of a breach of contract, Elwert´sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1934.
GROSSMANN-DOERTH, HANS - Law of the German Economic Order, Industrieverlag Spaeth & Linde, Berlin 1941.
Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992)
Hayek, Friedrich August von - The Road to Serfdom, (EA London 1944).
Hayek, Friedrich August von - Individualism and Economic Order, Salzburg, London 1948 and Erlenbach-Zurich 1952.
Hayek, Friedrich August von - Liberalism Yesterday and Today, in: Universitas 7 (1952), Vol. 1, pp. 249-254
Hayek, Friedrich August von - The Sensory Order. An Inquiry into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology, London 1952.
Hayek, Friedrich August von - Types of Order, in: ibid., Freiburg Studies, Tübingen 1969, pp. 32-46.
Hayek, Friedrich August von - Law, Legislation and Economic Freedom, in: ibid., Freiburg Studies, Tübingen 1969, pp. 47-55.
Hayek, Friedrich August von - The Views of the Majority and Contemporary Democracy, in: ibid., Freiburg Studies, Tübingen 1969, pp. 56-74.
Hayek, Friedrich August von - The results of human action, but not of human design, in: ibid., Freiburger Studien, Tübingen 1969, pp. 97-107.
Hayek, Friedrich August von - Principles of a Liberal Social Order, in: ibid., Freiburg Studies, Tübingen 1969, pp. 108-125.
Hayek, Friedrich August von - The Constitution of a Free State, in: ibid., Freiburg Studies, Tübingen 1969, pp. 199-205.
Hayek, Friedrich August von - Competition as a process of discovery, in: ibid., Freiburg Studies, Tübingen 1969, pp. 249-265.
Hayek, Friedrich August von – The Constitution of Liberty, Tübingen, 1971.
Hayek, Friedrich August von - Law, Legislation, Freedom. Volume 1: Rules and Order, Munich 1980.
Hayek, Friedrich August von - Law, Legislation, Freedom. Volume 2: The Illusion of Social Justice, Landsberg 1981.
Hayek, Friedrich August von - Law, Legislation, Freedom. Volume 3: The Constitution of a Society of Free Men, Landsberg 1981.
Hayek, Friedrich August von - The Free Market Economy and Its Moral Foundations. Keynote speech, March 19, 1985, Carl Menger Institute Vienna, Vienna 1985.
Hayek, Friedrich August von - The Pretense of Knowledge, in: id., The Pretense of Knowledge. New Freiburg Studies, ed. by Wolfgang Kerber, Tübingen 1996, pp. 3-15.
Hayek, Friedrich August von - The Overrated Reason, in: The Pretense of Knowledge. New Freiburg Studies, edited by Wolfgang Kerber, Tübingen 1996, pp. 76-101.
Hayek, Friedrich August von - Evolution and Spontaneous Order, in: The Pretense of Knowledge. New Freiburg Studies, edited by Wolfgang Kerber, Tübingen 1996, pp. 102-113.
Hayek, Friedrich August von - The Illusion of Social Justice, in: The Pretense of Knowledge. New Freiburg Studies, edited by Wolfgang Kerber, Tübingen, pp. 193-203.
Hayek, Friedrich August von - The Theory of Complex Phenomena, in: The Pretense of Knowledge. New Freiburg Studies, ed. by Wolfgang Kerber, Tübingen 1996, pp. 281-306.
Hayek, Friedrich August von - Two Ways of Thinking, in: The Pretense of Knowledge. New Freiburg Studies, edited by Wolfgang Kerber, Tübingen, pp. 317-323.
Hayek, Friedrich August von - The Fatal Arrogance: The Errors of Socialism, Tübingen 1996.
Alfred Müller-Armack (1901-1978)
MÜLLER-ARMACK, ALFRED – Laws of Development of Capitalism. Economic, Historical, and Sociological Studies. Berlin: Juncker & Dünnhaupt 1932.
MÜLLER-ARMACK, ALFRED – State Idea and Economic Order in the New Reich, Berlin: Juncker & Dünnhaupt 1933.
MÜLLER-ARMACK, ALFRED – Genealogy of Economic Styles. The Intellectual History of State and Economic Forms up to the End of the 18th Century (1941), Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1944.
MÜLLER-ARMACK, ALFRED – Economic Control and Market Economy, Hamburg: Publishing House for Economics and Social Policy 1947.
MÜLLER-ARMACK, ALFRED – The Century Without God, Münster: Regensberg 1948.
MÜLLER-ARMACK, ALFRED – Style and Order of the Social Market Economy – Cologne, 1952.
MÜLLER-ARMACK, ALFRED – Religion and Economics. The Intellectual History of Our European Way of Life, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1959.
MÜLLER-ARMACK, ALFRED – Studies on the social market economy - Cologne: Institute for Economic Policy, 1960.
MÜLLER-ARMACK, ALFRED – Economic Order and Economic Policy: Studies and Concepts on the Social Market Economy and European Integration - Freiburg i. Br.: Rombach, 1966 [2nd, unchanged ed. - Bern [et al.]: Haupt, 1976]
MÜLLER-ARMACK, ALFRED – On the Way to Europe. Memories and Outlooks, Tübingen/Stuttgart: Rainer Wunderlich; CE Poeschel 1971.
MÜLLER-ARMACK, ALFRED – Genealogy of the Social Market Economy: Early Writings and Further Concepts, Bern/ Stuttgart: Haupt 1974.
MÜLLER-ARMACK, ALFRED – The five major themes of future economic policy - [Bonn] : Ludwig Erhard Foundation, 1977.
MÜLLER-ARMACK, ALFRED – Social Market Economy as a National and International Order – 2nd ed. – Stuttgart [et al.] : Verl. Bonn Aktuell, 1978.
Selection of writings about Alfred Müller-Armack
DIETZFELBINGER, DANIEL – Social Market Economy as an Economic Style: Alfred Müller-Armack’s Life’s Work, Gütersloh: Kaiser 1998.
DIETZFELBINGER, DANIEL – From the Sociology of Religion to the Social Market Economy: The Life and Work of Alfred Müller-Armack, in: Hanns Seidel Foundation (ed.): Political Studies, Issue 373, 51st year, Munich 2000, pp. 85 – 99.
KOWITZ, ROLF – Alfred Müller Armack: Economic Policy as a Vocation. On the Origins of the Social Market Economy and the Political Work of the University Professor, Cologne: Deutscher Instituts-Verlag 1998.
LANGE-VON KULESSA, JÜRGEN – Alfred Müller-Armack’s social market economy and the ordoliberalism of the Freiburg School: on the incompatibility of two concepts of the state, in: ORDO: Yearbook for the Order of Economy and Society, Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius, Vol. 49 (1998), pp. 79-104.
RAUCH, MATHIAS – On the biography and bibliography of Alfred Müller-Armack, in: Hasse, Rolf E. (ed.), Economic order and social concept: on the integrative power of the social market economy, Bern/ Stuttgart: Haupt 2002, pp. 309-352.
Wilhelm Röpke (1899-1966)
RÖPKE, WILHELM – Practical economic policy (The work of the Brauns Commission), in: World Economic Archives: Journal of the Institute for World Economics at the University of Kiel, Tübingen: Mohr, Vol. 34 (1931), pp. 423-464.
RÖPKE, WILHELM – The Theory of Economics, Vienna: Springer 1937.
RÖPKE, WILHELM – The Social Crisis of the Present, Erlenbach-Zurich: Rentsch 1942.
RÖPKE, WILHELM – Civitas humana: Fundamental questions of social and economic reform, Erlenbach-Zurich: Rentsch 1944.
RÖPKE, WILHELM – International Order, Erlenbach-Zurich: Rentsch 1945.
RÖPKE, WILHELM – The Crisis of Collectivism, Erlenbach-Zurich: Rentsch 1947.
RÖPKE, WILHELM – Mass and Mean, Erlenbach-Zurich: Eugen Rentsch Verlag 1950.
RÖPKE, WILHELM – Is German economic policy correct? Analysis and Critique, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1950.
RÖPKE, WILHELM – Beyond Supply and Demand, Erlenbach-Zurich: Eugen Rentsch Verlag 1958.
RÖPKE, WILHELM – Common Market and Free Trade Area: 28 Theses as Guidelines, in: ORDO: Yearbook for the Order of Economy and Society, Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius, Vol. 10 (1958), pp. 31-62.
Selection of writings about Wilhelm Röpke
HABERMANN, GERD (ed.), The Measure of Humanity. A Wilhelm Röpke Breviary, Thun: Ott Verlag 1999.
HENNECKE, HANS JÖRG – Wilhelm Röpke. A Life in the Storm. Stuttgart: Schäffer-Poeschel 2005.
SCHÜLLER, ALFRED – Wilhelm Röpke – Work and Influence in Marburg: Lessons for the Present and Future, in: ORDO: Yearbook for the Order of Economy and Society, Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius, Vol. 54 (2003), pp. 21-48.
STARBATTY, JOACHIM – Röpke’s contribution to the social market economy, Tübingen Discussion Papers 228, Tübingen: Faculty of Economics of the Eberhard Karls University 2002,
on the Internet: "Röpke's Contribution to the Social Market Economy" (University of Tübingen).
WILLGERODT, HANS – The theory of economics – a classic of economics, in: ORDO: Yearbook for the order of economy and society, Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius, Vol. 50 (1999), pp. 61-68.
ZÖLLER, MICHAEL – In memory of Wilhelm Röpke, in: ORDO: Yearbook for the Order of Economy and Society, Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius, Vol. 50 (1999), pp. 33-36.
Alexander Rüstow (1885-1963)
RÜSTOW, Alexander - The Liar: Theory, History, and Resolution of Russell's Paradox, Diss. phil. Erlangen 1910
RÜSTOW, Alexander - Protective tariff or free trade?, 1925.
RÜSTOW, Alexander - The Pros and Cons of Protectionist Tariff Policy, 1925.
RÜSTOW, Alexander - The Failure of Economic Liberalism, 1945.
RÜSTOW, Alexander - Between Capitalism and Communism, 1949.
RÜSTOW, Alexander - Locating the Present. A Universal-Historical Cultural Critique, 3 volumes, Vol. 1: Origin of Domination, Vol. 2: Path to Freedom, Vol. 3: Domination or Freedom?, 1950-57.
RÜSTOW, Alexander - Economy and Cultural System, 1955.
RÜSTOW, Alexander - The Other Side of the Economic Miracle, 1961.
RÜSTOW, Alexander - Questions and Answers. 21 speeches and numerous contributions to discussions from 1932 to 1963, edited by Walter Horch, 1963.
RÜSTOW, Alexander - The Religion of the Market Economy, 2nd ed. Münster 2004.