Social Market Economy Initiative

Renewing the social market economy is an ongoing theme in the political debate. However, current fiscal pressures to reform in individual areas, the objectives of special interest groups and partisan obligations all too often obstruct our view of the need for essential reform. The Social Market Economy Initiative founded in 1992 by the Bertelsmann Stiftung, the Heinz Nixdorf Foundation and the Ludwig-Erhard-Stiftung has set its sights on drawing attention to the basic institutional framework for the social market economy within today's reform dialogue. Projects of the initiative started by the three foundations focus on delivering academia, politics, business and the public steady momentum for renewing and modernizing the social market economy.