The AfDR economics group, founded in 1940 and headed by Jens Jessen, encompassed a total of nine working groups on the themes of economic history, economic policy, social policy, agricultural policy, money and credit, financial economy, price policy, transport policy, international economics, and a coordinating central caucus on economics. The ordoliberals congregated mainly in the economics and price policy working groups.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 581