The Walter Eucken Institut is a German ordo-liberal economic think tank based in Freiburg im Breisgau , Baden-Württemberg , Germany .
2-397: The Institute was founded in 1954, four years after the death of economist Walter Eucken , by a number of his friends and pupils. The Institute's creation was supported by Ludwig Erhard , then Secretary of Economic Affairs and later Chancellor of West Germany . Honorary Presidents have included Nobel laureates Friedrich Hayek and James M. Buchanan . Since September 2010, the institute
4-556: Is directed by Lars Feld . The Walter Eucken Institute's research interest is constitutional and institutional questions in economics and social sciences, including preserving and developing a free market order, classical liberal ideas and their institutional realisation, and the economic constitution of the European Union . 47°59′20.09″N 7°50′39.78″E / 47.9889139°N 7.8443833°E / 47.9889139; 7.8443833 This economics -related article
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