MPS member Joachim Starbatty, a central actor in German neoliberal networks and head of the think tank Aktionsgemeinschaft Soziale Marktwirtschaft, defined the MPS as the "organizational expression of neoliberalism" ("der organisatorische Ausdruck"). He argues further that ordoliberalism should be seen as the "German variety of neoliberalism." With this self-declaration by one of Germany's most prominent ordoliberals in mind, it is safe to define a "network of German neoliberalism" organized in think tanks and institutions around the MPS. In what follows, I define the "German neoliberal network" as comprised of think tanks or institutions in which at least one of the founding or leading members is also a member of the MPS.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 615