While the diagnosis of a revival or a comeback of ordoliberalism or German neoliberalism in economic policy might hold in the European or maybe even the international context, in the next section I will argue that it is misleading to claim such a “return thesis” for Germany. Although ordoliberalism as an independent economic theory might, in fact, have been “marginalized and thus forgotten,” the infrastructures of German neoliberalism, such as politico-economic think tanks, political institutions, and economic research institutes, remained an influential vehicle for the discursive hegemony of German neoliberalism in German economic policies.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 618