Alexander R%C3%BCstow

Alexander Rstow was a German sociologist and economist. In 1938 he originated the term neoliberalism at the Colloque Walter Lippmann. He was one of the fathers of the Social Market Economy that shaped the economy of West Germany after World War II. He is the grandnephew of Wilhelm Rstow, the grandson of Csar Rstow and the father of Dankwart Rustow.

Rstow was born in Wiesbaden in the Prussian Province of HesseNassau. From 1903 till 1908, he studied mathematics, physics, philosophy, philology, law and economics, at the universities of Gttingen, Munich and Berlin. In 1908, he obtained his doctorate under Paul Hensel, at the University of Erlangen, on a mathematical topic, Russells paradox. He then worked at the Teubner publishing house in Berlin, until 1911, when he started working on his habilitation, on the knowledge theory of Parmenides. He had to interrupt his work though at the outbreak of the First World War, when he volunteered for the German Army.

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