Standard texts on the social market economy: Two centuries of discussion

The Social Market Economy in Practice 
Section I
The Situation and Aims prior to the Economic and Currency Reform of l948
Carl Goerdeler (1941) - Elimination of the Collective Economy
Ludwig Erhard (1943/44) - The Economic Needs of Postwar Germany 
Alfred Muller-Armack (1947) - The Social Aspect of the Economic System
Section 11
The Fundamental Decision in Favour of a Social Market Economy
Ludwig Erhard (1948) - The Programme of Economic Reform, Article in the «Handelsblatt» (22 June 1948), A Complete Reform of the Valid Economic Provisions
Ludwig Erhard (1948) - The new facts
Section III
Economic and Socio-Political Orientation
Wilhelm Ropke (1950) - Is the German Economic Policy the Right One?
Alfred Muller-Armack (1960) - The Second Phase of the Social Market Economy: An Additional Concept of a Humane Economy
Ludwig Erhard (1965) - Our Social Model: an Integrated Society
Egon Tuchtfeldt (1973) - Social Market Economy and Demand Management: Two Experiments in Economic Policy

Section IV
The Future of the Social Market Economy
Norbert Kloten (1973) - The Future of Our Economic System
Christian Watrin (1978) - How Jeopardized is the Social Market Economy
The Theoretical Basis of the Social Market Economy
Chapter I Production
Section 1
The functions of the market
Adam Smith (1776) - The Merits of a Free Economy
Franz Bohm (1933) - The Non-State («Natural») Laws Inherent in a Competitive Economy
Walter Eucken (1952) - A Policy for Establishing a System of Free Emprise
Ernst-Joachim Mestmacker (1973) - Competition Policy in an Industrial Society
Section II
The functions of the state
a)	The Framework of the Economic System Jean
Baptiste Say (1803) - Prosperity Requires both Security and Freedom
Leonhard Miksch (1937) - Competition and Economic Constitution
Friedrich A. von Hayek (1960)  - Economic Policy and the Rule of Law
Hans Willgerodt (1979) - Economic Order and Public Administration
b)	State Intervention 
Adam Ferguson (1767) - Of the Wise Limitation of Statesman
Ludwig von Mises (1926) - Critique of Interventionism
Alexander Rustow (1932) - Liberal Intervention
Wilhelm Ropke (1944) - The Guiding Principles of the Liberal Programme
Fritz W. Meyer (1967) - The Splendor and Misery of the Full Employment Policy, The Advisory Council to the Federal Ministry of Economics (1979), State Intervention in a Market Economy
c)	Production of Public Goods
Wolfram Engels (1976) - The Efficient Production of Public Goods
Holger Bonus (1979) - Public Goods; Their Seductive Appeal and the Prisoner's Dilemma
Supplement: 
Horst Claus Recktenwald (1980) -The Theory of Public Economy in the Present Age
Chapter II Distribution
Section I Market Income
Johann Heinrich von Thunen (1850) - The Value and Remuneration of Work
Walter Eucken (1948) - The Social Question
Wolfgang Stutzel (1978) - Safeguarding the Social Market Economy by a Systematic Regulative Policy
Section 11 Transfer Income
Leopold von Wiese (1910) - Political and Ethical Aspects of Social Policy
Adolf Weber (1930) - The Foundations and Limits of Social Policy
Kurt Schmidt (1957) - A Financial Policy Designed for Social Balance, The Commission of Inquiry on Social Questions (1966), Economic Problems in Social Security
Section III
Property and Wealth 
Hermann Heinrich Gossen (1854) - On the maximum protection of private property
Hilaire Belloc (1936) - The Restoration of Property
Hans Willgerodt (1979) - The Formation of Capital and Wealth and Its Consequences for a Free Economic Order
Chapter III
The Interdependence of the Various Systems
Alfred Muller-Armack (1930) - Social lrenics  
Franz Bohm (1953) - Left-Wing and Right-Wing Approaches to the Market Economy
Wilhelm Ropke (1955) - Ethics and Economic Life