American political commentator Allan Carlson discusses world-renowned German-born economist Wilhelm Röpke’s vision of a social order based on the family and on widespread ownership of property.Wilhelm Röpke held to the Christian concept which “makes man the image of God whom it is sinful to use as a means” and a creature who embodies inestimable value as an individual. Noting that the idea of liberty had appeared uniquely in Christian Europe, he concluded “that only a free econom…
