The Humane Economy of Wilhelm Roepke ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Russell Kirk

Wilhelm Roepke was the principal champion of a humane economy: that is, an economic system suited to human nature and to a humane scale in society, as opposed to systems bent upon mass production regardless of counterproductive personal and social consequences.

He was a formidable opponent of socialist and other “command” economies; also a fearless, perceptive critic of an unthinking “capitalism.”

— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2012/01/humane-economy-wilhelm-roepke-russell-kirk.html

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