The strong academic influence was manifested in the successful academic reproduction of the Freiburg School and especially of Eucken's students. Figure 11.1 shows German professors of economics whose doctoral theses and/or habilitation theses were supervised by Eucken. Although Eucken died rather young at the age of fifty-nine, during a research visit at the LSE (to which he had been invited by Hayek), he was one of the most successful “producers of pupils” in the history of German economics. After the successful reproduction of the first generation of the Freiburg School (Eucken supervised at least eleven pupils who were later to become professors of economics at German universities), Eucken's pupils (in particular, Bernhard Pfister, Karl Paul Hensel, and Fritz Walter Meyer, all of whom later became members of the MPS) proved to be very successful academic supervisors, too.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 623