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Vitalpolitik

  • Abstract: This chapter reconstructs the notion of ‘vital policy’ (Vitalpolitik), an approach to the social question whose first and strongest proponent amongst the Ordoliberals was Alexander Rüstow. It is opposed to traditional social policy as a top-down provision of material benefits (welfare). Instead, it aims at enabling those ‘conditions of life’ (Lebenslagen) that provide the prerequisites for human beings and their community to flourish. This humanistic approach attempts to complement the competitive processes in a market society and to provide access and equal opportunity to these processes, focusing on the notion of fair starting conditions for individuals. In its general thrust, Vitalpolitik is well compatible with more recent research programmes, especially the capability approach of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum.

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Author:Stefan Kolev, Nils Goldschmidt
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198861201.013.32
ISBN:9780198861201 Available in library?
Parent Title (English):The Oxford Handbook of Ordoliberalism
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Editor:Thomas Biebricher, Werner Bonefeld, Peter Nedergaard
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2022
Edition:1
Page Number:8
First Page:453
Last Page:460
Faculty:Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau / Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Release Date:2024/03/22