Editor's Introduction to "Float or Sink? The Millstone of the 'Social Market' in Germany"

I. Websites

The following is a selection of mainly German language websites which focus on free market economic policy. English language material can be found at the Centre for a New Europe website and the selection of articles by Prof. Christian Watrin:

1. Walter Eucken Instute— http://walter-eucken-institut.de/

2. Ludwig Erhard Stiftung— http://www.ludwig-erhard-stiftung.de/

3. Prof. Christian Watrin, the Institute for Economic Policy Research at the University of Cologne in Germany. A selection of his articles is available online at http://www.uni-koeln.de/wiso-fak/eekhoff/pub/schrift.htm

4. The Friedrich Hayek Institute— http://www.hayek-institut.at/

5. The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung— http://www.kas.de

6. The Frankfurt Institute— http://www.frankfurt-institut.de

7. The Centre for a New Europe— http://www.cne.org

8. The Germany Embassy website in Washington, D.C. –
http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/info/facts/facts_about/system.html

9. The German Government site of the Federal Department of Economics
and Labor –
http://www.bmwi.de/textonly/Homepage/Politikfelder/Wirtschaftspolitik/So
ziale%20Marktwirtschaft/Soziale%20Marktwirtschaft.jsp

II. Bibliography

The Social Market Economy. Theory and Ethics of the Economic Order, ed.
Peter Koslowski (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, Tokyo: Springer, 1998).
Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy Vol. 17.

A Bibliography celebrating 50 years of the Social Market Economy in Germany (1948-98) prepared by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung –
http://www1.kas.de/bibliothek/bibliographie/50jahre.html