European Book Club: Book presentation and discussion with Karen Horn & Stefan Kolev
Liberal Responses to Populism
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Time: 18:00 – 19:30
Location: Zentrum Liberale Moderne, Reinhardtstraße 15, 10117 Berlin
On May 13, we are going to discuss the book edited by Karen Horn and Stefan Kolev „Liberal Responses to Populism“.
Speakers
Karen Horn
Karen Horn is a honorary professor of economics at the University of Erfurt (Germany), where she teaches the history of economic thought and economic journalism. She is particularly interested in the work of Adam Smith, Friedrich A. Hayek, Walter Eucken, and James M. Buchanan, and in the tradition of liberalism generally, with a special focus on ordoliberalism. At the Verein für Socialpolitik, the association of German-speaking economists, she is a member of the committee for the history of economic thought. She serves as an editor of Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, one of the two academic journals of the Verein, and is the co-chair of the NOUS network. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland).
Stefan Kolev
Stefan Kolev is the academic director of the Ludwig Erhard Forum for Economy and Society in Berlin and a professor of political economy at the University of Applied Sciences Zwickau (Germany). His research centers on the history of economic thought, especially ordoliberalism and Austrian economics, constitutional economics, and the future of the Social Market Economy. He is a co-editor of the ORDO Yearbook for the Order of Economy and Society and of the Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch. He spent his last sabbatical at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University (USA). He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Hamburg (Germany).
Aris Trantidis
Lecturer in International Relations and Politics, University of Lincoln. His research stands at the intersection of politics and political economy, with publications on clientelism, dominant party systems and semi-authoritarian regimes. He has published on the concept of democracy and hegemony and has written extensively on the Greek crisis.
Moderation
Karolina Wigura
Senior Fellow at Zentrum Liberale Moderne, Kultura Liberalna Foundation, and Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw.
More info and the possibility to register coming soon.