In this perspective, the collapse of democracy in Germany is not caused by a functioning market economy, but rather the consequence of the fact that such an economy did not exist. From the viewpoint of the Ordoliberals, the Third Reich was the inevitable result of a series of anti-liberal policies" (Lemke 2001, 193).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1172