Sobriety, promotion of organic farming, these bioeconomic principles proposed in the 1970s by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen led to the commonly-made association between his works and the De-growth Movement.

D. N. McCloskey states, among other things, that the study of economic texts stems primarily from literary criticism; that mathematical models, highly valued by economists, are essentially metaphorical and constitute a genuinely original poetic genre.

Walter Eucken (1891-1940) is the key figure of the German Ordoliberal thought. This book outlines the genesis and development of Walter Eucken's economic thought at a crossroads between political economy, philosophy, law and history.