The very lack of a consistent economic policy under the Nazis—the Nazis' economic policy oscillated wildly between planning and competition at least until the war—reinforced the ordoliberals' hope of finding a sympathetic hearing for their authority-supported model of competition (Herbst 1982; Abelshauser 1999).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 539