Walter Eucken Institut

The Walter Eucken Institut eV is a non-profit independent social and economic research institution in the area of the Albert- Ludwigs- University in Freiburg im Breisgau. It was founded in 1954 with the help of Ludwig Erhard and is particularly concerned with regulatory and economic issues within the meaning of ordo-liberalism of the Freiburg School. The Institute is named after Walter Eucken, one of the founders of the ordo-liberalism. Establishing wore Edith Eucken ERDSIEK, Eucken widow with.

The Institute sees itself as a " center of excellence in public policy and regulatory economic basic research". It publishes discussion papers and book series on regulatory research and deals with the edition of works by well-known representative of the Freiburg School, for example, a complete edition of the works of Friedrich August von Hayek. The Institute organizes symposia and lecture series, such as the Freiburg call policy reform.

During the tenure of the Walter Eucken Institute Luder Gerken gave in 2000 the estate of Walter Eucken to the person sitting in Frankfurt Walter Eucken archive. A large part of the estate of Karl Schiller kept it to himself.

The Institute is part of the liberal Stockholm Network.

For the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Institute in January 2014 gave President Joachim Gauck the speech.

Head of Institute

From 1964 to 1970, Friedrich August von Hayek, Chairman of the Institute, after which he was honorary president until 1992. On him Erich Hopp man followed as head of the institute. From 2001 to August 2010 Viktor Vanberg held the Directorate. Since 1 September 2010, the Walter Eucken Institute is headed by Lars field. The Nobel laureate James M. Buchanan served from 2004 until his death in January 2013 as honorary president.