Liberal Responses to Populism

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 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).

Julian F. Müller is a professor of political philosophy at the department of philosophy at the University of Graz (Austria). Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute of Philosophy at University of Hamburg (Germany) and at the Political Theory Project at Brown University (USA). His research interest resides at the intersection of political philosophy and economics, with one specific focus on epistemic democracy and populism. Currently, he is working on what it means to have a liberal spirit. He also worked on various topics in applied ethics, such as migration ethics and the ethics of AI.