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The Ideal Economy of Wilhelm Roepke by Ralph E. Ancil

In the volumi­nous writings of Wilhelm Roep­ke, we find an effort to come to grips with this dilem­ma of unfreedom and to outline a way of getting what we want in a deeper and fuller sense. Rather than perpetuate the feeling of dependence and unfreedom by restricting choice to the usual alternatives in political economy (social­ism or liber­tari­anism), Roepke envi­sions a "Third Way" that would in a properly under­stood sense be truly "liberat­ing." It is not the Roepke as Austrian econo­mist that is here considered, or the Roepke as anti-communist, but rather the essential Roepke, Roepke as radical reform­er, as idealist.