Preface PETER KOSLOWSKI, Introduction: The Social Market Economy and the Varieties of Capitalism PART A: SOCIAL MARKET ECONOMY. CONTEMPORARY ANALYSIS AND THEORY. SECTION I: THE THEORY OF THE ECONOMIC ORDER CHRISTIAN WATRIN, The Social Market Economy: The Main Ideas and Their Influence on Economic Policy - KONSTANTIN S. PIGROV, The Idea of Economic Order in Contemporary Russia - MANFRED E. STREIT, Has the Market Economy Still a Chance? On the Lack of a Disciplining Challenge - SERGEY A. NIKOLSKY, The Chances for Economic Order in Post-Soviet Russia - PETER KOSLOWSKI, The Social Market Economy: Social Equilibration of Capitalism and Consideration of the Totality of the Economic Order. Notes on Alfred Muller-Armack SECTION II: THE ETHICS OF THE ECONOMIC ORDER SVETLANA V. SIMONOVA, The Ethics of Business in Russia - VLADIMIR V. BIBIKHIN, One's Own Proper. What is Property in its Essence? SECTION III: THE REPERSONALISATION OF SOCIALIZED PROPERTY WOLF-DIETER PLESSING, Privatisation in the New Lands of the Former German Democratic Republic - ALEXANDER I. LIAKIN, Reprivatisation and Economic Transformation in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union SECTION IV: THE PRIVATISATION OF THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR SILKE STAHL, Independent Family Farms Versus Hierarchical Forms of Organisation. Spontaneous Emergence of Property Rights Structures in Russian Agriculture - EVGENI F. SHEPELEV, Russian Law and Land Privatisation SECTION V: THE ECONOMIC ORDER IN PRIVATE AND IN PUBLIC LAW BORIS V. MARKOV, Law and Economic Order in the Structures of Russian Everyday Life - KNUT WOLFGANG NOERR, A Symbiosis with Reserve: Social Market Economy and Legal Order in Germany PART B: SOCIAL MARKET ECONOMY. FOUR BASIC TEXTS SECTION I: THE THEORY OF ECONOMIC ORDER ALFRED MuLLER-ARMACK, The Principles of the Social Market Economy (1965) SECTION II: THE ETHICS OF THE ECONOMIC ORDER OTTO SCHLECHT, The Ethical Content of the Social MarketEconomy (1988) SECTION III: ATTEMPTS TO FORM A BROADER BASIS FOR THE OWNERSHIP OF THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION IN THE SOCIAL MARKET ECONOMY OSWALD VON NELL-BREUNING S.J., The Formation of Private Property in the Hands of Workers (1956) SECTION IV: THE THEORY OF COMPETITION ERNST JOACHIM MESTMAECKER, The Role of Competition in a Liberal Society (1979) ANATOLY A. SOBCHAK, A Message of Greeting List of Authors and Discussants Index of Names