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.