Media Appearances
November 13, 2024
Deutscher Bundestag, Parlamentsnachrichten
Experts Concerned about the Situation of German Car Manufacturers (Hearing in the Bundestag’s Wirtschaftsausschuss, with Stefan Kolev as Expert Witness of the FDP)
November 07, 2024
phoenix
phoenix tagesgespräch mit Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (Moderator’s Quoting Stefan Kolev, Director of the Ludwig Erhard Forum, on German Defense Spending)
November 05, 2024
Financial Times
Letter: US Election Presents Ukraine and Its Allies with a Vital Dilemma (Original Signatory of the German Version of Letter to the Financial Times)
November 05, 2024
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Turning Away from Angela Merkel’s Nuclear Phase-Out: CDU and CSU Tentatively Commit to Nuclear Energy
October 30, 2024
St. Gallen Business Review
On Polarization, Nationalism and Liberalism in the 21st Century
October 15, 2024
WirtschaftsWoche
Who Should Receive the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics? (Endorsement of Deirdre N. McCloskey and Israel M. Kirzner for the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics)
October 12, 2024
The Pioneer
Robert Habeck: The Mistakes of His Economic Philosophy
October 04, 2024
Handelsblatt
What You Say Is an Offense to Me as an Eastern European (Debate with Sahra Wagenknecht)
September 19, 2024
DIE ZEIT
How Much State is Too Much? (Reply to Philippa Sigl-Glöckner)
September 14, 2024
Das Parlament
Debating Public Debt
September 05, 2024
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Falling Flat on One’s Face: On the Crisis of the FDP
August 14, 2024
Das Parlament
A New Special Fund Is Needed for the Bundeswehr
August 08, 2024
Wirtschaftsdienst
The Debt Brake and the Return of the Normative
August 03, 2024
The Pioneer
Subsidies Out of Control
July 27, 2024
Tagesspiegel
Is the Federal Budget at Risk Again? Minister of Finance Lindner Raises Doubts about His Own Budget
July 17, 2024
Handelsblatt
Does the Growth Package of the Federal Government Keep What It Promises? A Debate with Verena Hubertz
July 06, 2024
The Pioneer
Goodbye Germany – On Emigration from Germany
July 05, 2024
Badische Zeitung
Curtailing Power – A Portrayal of Anselm Küsters
June 27, 2024
“RHI-Kontexte” of the Roman Herzog Institute
Politics with a Chainsaw? Understanding Neoliberalism
June 21, 2024
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
A Distinguished President – On the Hayek Medal for Javier Milei
June 19, 2024
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
EU: Somewhere between a Large Switzerland and a Large France
June 15, 2024
taz, die tageszeitung
Libertarians Give an Award to Javier Milei
June 05, 2024
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Europe Can Keep Up – If It Wants to Do So
May 25, 2024
Das Parlament
Ahead of the European Elections: Because It Matters
May 19, 2024
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
The Left Discovers Ludwig Erhard
April 27, 2024
ZEIT Online
Dare More Market Economy, Dear Germany (Jointly with Max Krahé)
April 24, 2024
DIE WELT
Three Problems the Ampel Government Can Solve (Jointly with Moritz Schularick)
April 22, 2024
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Ackermann’s Way: Autobiography as a German History of Capitalism
April 21, 2024
Die Presse Vienna
The Goal of Liberalism is a Society without Privileges
March 03, 2024
based. Podcast
Does Germany Need More Hayek, Stefan Kolev?
Feruary 27, 2024
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Is Interventionism a Threat to Democracy? On the 80th Anniversary of F. A. Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom” (Jointly with Veronika Grimm and Jens Weidmann)
Feruary 22, 2024
Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung
Defending a Wonderful World
Feruary 10, 2024
Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland
On Ukraine and the West – Economist Calls for “Affirmative, Not Corrosive Criticism”
February 09, 2024
WirtschaftsWoche
An Ordo in Berlin – How a Bulgarian Fell in Love with the Federal Republic
January 12, 2024
taz, die tageszeitung
Is Green Capitalism Possible? – taz Talk with Ulrike Herrmann and Stefan Kolev
January 05, 2024
Alternativata s Krassen Stanchev
Liberalism and Social Order in Europe, the World and Bulgaria
December 30, 2023
Augsburger Allgemeine
Can Ludwig Erhard Get Germany Out of Complacency?
December 30, 2023
Das Parlament
Concisely Reviewed: Nils Goldschmidt & Stefan Kolev “75 Years Social Market Economy in 7.5 Chapters”
December 27, 2023
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
“The World Reminds Me of 1928”: Interview with Liberal Economist Stefan Kolev
December 25, 2023
“Impulse 2024” Magazine of the Roman Herzog Institute
Optimism: Trust Enhances the Order’s Resilience (Jointly with Markus Brunnermeier)
December 23, 2023
“Liberal” Magazine of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation
An Age of Superfragility?
November 03, 2023
SWR2 Forum
Comprehensive Insurance or Personal Responsibility – How Much Government Do We Need?
October 28, 2023
Rheinische Post
Social Market Economy under Pressure
October 15, 2023
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
So What about the Market? (Jointly with Lisa Herzog)
September 24, 2023
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
Neoliberals Are Not That Terrible! (Reply to Lisa Herzog)
September 10, 2023
“There is No Alternative to De-Growth.” “On the Contrary!”
A Debate with Ulrike Herrmann, Economics Editor at taz, die tageszeitung and Author of “The End of Capitalism”
September 09, 2023
September 05, 2023
New Board of Trustees for the Ludwig Erhard Forum
August 18, 2023
German Foundational Decisions: 75 Years since the Social Market Economy and the Basic Law
July 24, 2023
Tamed Capitalism: A Short History of the Social Market Economy
July 20, 2023
DIE ZEIT
Does Government Money Make Happy?
A Debate with Franziska Brantner, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
July 18, 2023
The Double Reconciliation – Ludwig Erhard, the Wonder Maker
July 07, 2023
An Optimistic Order
July 07, 2023
Inflation Can Be Explosive for Society
June 20, 2023
75 Years Social Market Economy: Let Us Dare More Optimism
June 16, 2023
Adam Smith’s 300th Birthday: Rescue Neoliberalism!
June 12, 2023
Would the Economic Miracle Have Been Possible without Ludwig Erhard?
June 11, 2023
The Misunderstood One: Adam Smith’s 300th Birthday
April 18, 2023
How Isabella Weber Takes Issue with the Fight against Inflation
April 09, 2023
The Neoliberal: Bulgarian Economist Stefan Kolev Wants to Bring Liberalism in Germany Back in Vogue. His Life Story Helps
December 19, 2022
Creative Crises: How Globalization Constantly Reinvents Itself
November 30, 2022
Ordoliberalism for the Modern Day — Erwin Dekker & Stefan Kolev
November 25, 2022
Reason Magazine
Hayek Was a True Liberal (Review by Deirdre N. McCloskey of “Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950”, University of Chicago Press)
November 11, 2022
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Order in an Uncertain World: The Thinking-in-Orders in Germany Contributed to Its Marginalization, while the Overload of the State Favors Its Renaissance
November 06, 2022
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
Liberalism: The Idea of Freedom Is under Attack from All Sides. What Is Its Future?
October 24, 2022
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The Order Engineer: A Biography of Nobel-Prize Winning Economist Jan Tinbergen
October 10, 2022
WirtschaftsWoche
Who Should Receive the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics? (Endorsement of Deirdre N. McCloskey and Israel M. Kirzner for the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics)
October 01, 2022
Bulgarian National Radio, “Saturday 150”
Germany: The Choice Is Not between Good and Bad Measures, But between the Worst and the Less Bad
September 30, 2022
WirtschaftsWoche
Should We Learn from Despots? On the Challenges for the Transatlantic West
September 28, 2022
“Wohlstand für Alle” Magazine of the Ludwig Erhard Foundation
Ordnungspolitik as the Preservation of Fragile Orders
August 24, 2022
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Formulating a New Neoliberalism: Bulgarian-Born Economist Stefan Kolev Aims at Advocating Capitalism in Berlin, Thus Sustaining Democracy
August 02, 2022
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Ludwig Erhard Foundation Expands to Berlin: Researcher Stefan Kolev Will Direct New Forum
June 22, 2022
mediapool.bg Portal
Bulgaria Desires the Euro. But Does the Euro Desire Bulgaria? (Bulgarian Translation of FAZ Article from June 19, 2022)
June 20, 2022
praxeologie.nl Portal
A New Myth of the West (Dutch Translation of FAZ Article from April 14, 2022)
June 19, 2022
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
Bulgaria Desires the Euro. But Does the Euro Desire Bulgaria?
May 23, 2022
Капитал Newspaper Sofia
Only a Self-Confident West Can Influence Russia’s Trajectory (Bulgarian Translation of FAZ Article from April 14, 2022)
May 01, 2022
týždeň Magazine Bratislava
Extremists Have Identified in Putin an Alternative
April 29, 2022
Svensk Tidskrift
A New Myth of the West (Swedish Translation of FAZ Article from April 14, 2022)
April 25, 2022
aktuality.sk Portal
The Postwar Help for Ukraine Should Not Be Limited to Money, the Threat of Oligarchization Remains
April 25, 2022
TA3 Television Slovakia
Germany Remains Divided between a Wealthier West and a Poorer East, with Decades of Communism to Be Blamed
April 16, 2022
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The Price of Hesitation
April 14, 2022
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
A New Myth of the West
April 14, 2022
aktuality.sk Portal
April 09, 2022
Bulgarian National Radio, “Saturday 150”
We Cannot Stop the War, but We Can Change the Game
February 18, 2022
INSM ÖkonomenBlog
Environmental Protection by Creativity: On the 90th Anniversary of Julian L. Simon
February 04, 2022
Abendzeitung München
Ludwig Erhard, the Miracle Man
January 23, 2022
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
To Die Out Undisturbed: On the Demographic Crisis in Bulgaria
December 20, 2021
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The Decline of the Centrally Planned Economy: 30 Years since the End of the USSR
November 22, 2021
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Leaving the Crisis Mode with Neoliberal Order-Based Policy
November 01, 2021
Der Freydenker: The Magazine of the European Students for Liberty
On Statics and Dynamics: Ordoliberalism as a Complement to the Austrian School
October 11, 2021
WirtschaftsWoche
Who Should Receive the Nobel Prize according to Germany’s Most Popular Economists? (Endorsement of Deirdre N. McCloskey and Israel M. Kirzner for the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics)
October 04, 2021
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Fighting Privileges: A Plea for Liberal Cosmopolitanism
October 04, 2021
Augsburger Allgemeine
Democratic Problem Zone: On the Federal Elections in Zwickau
September 29, 2021
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Order-Based Policy as a Formula for Sustainability
September 19, 2021
keep it liberal-Blog
Liberalism as an Idea of Connectivity: Why Each Generation Needs Its Own Neoliberalism
September 15, 2021
The Curious Task Podcast, Institute for Liberal Studies, Ottawa
Episode 107: Stefan Kolev – What Is Ordoliberalism?
August 3, 2021
Governance Roundtable of the Ostrom Workshop Podcast
Episode 12: Conversation with Stefan Kolev
July 25, 2021
ProMarket Blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago
“Old Chicago” and Freiburg: Why Ordoliberalism Was No “German Oddity”
June 11, 2021
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Economics in a Stress Test
May 9, 2021
Liberty and Responsibility Podcast, IDC Herzliya, Israel
Liberalism in the 21st Century: Lessons from the Colloque Walter Lippmann – A Conversation with the Editors
March 29, 2021
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Modern Theory of Order: Ordoliberalism Is Not a German Exceptionalism
March 28, 2021
ProMarket Blog of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago
“Power Is Evil in Itself”: The Ordoliberal Quest for a Privilege-Free Order
February 15, 2021
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
“Economists Should Know Where They Come From”: Stefan Kolev on His History of Ideas Initiative at Stanford University
December 17, 2020
Humboldt-Forum Wirtschaft Berlin
Interview: Populism in East and West
November 23, 2020
Ceteris non Paribus: The History of Economic Thought Podcast
Episode 23: German Socio-Economics
November 13, 2020
WirtschaftsWoche
Book Recommendation of Dalibor Rohac’s “In Defense of Globalism” in WirtschaftsWoche Weekender
September 30, 2020
WirtschaftsWoche
Who Should Receive the Nobel Prize? This Is What Germany’s Most Popular Economists Say (Endorsement of Deirdre N. McCloskey and Israel M. Kirzner for the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics)
August 24, 2020
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Against the Nationalists: New Order-Based Policy for Globalization
April 04, 2020
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The Rhetoric of Economists in Times of Crisis
January 21, 2020
Badische Zeitung
It Is Interests That Dominate in the End
November 15, 2019
Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast
Episode 26: Conversation of Scott Scheall (Arizona State University) and Stefan Kolev
October 11, 2019
WirtschaftsWoche
Who May Receive the Nobel Prize according to German Economists (Endorsement of János Kornai and Israel M. Kirzner for the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics)
October 03, 2019
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
James M. Buchanan Saw Democracy without Illusions
September 20, 2019
Svenska Dagbladet Stockholm
Does Liberalism Have a Place for Honor and Conscience?
June 29, 2019
Freie Presse Zwickau
Of Tree Friends and Quota Migrants
April 29, 2019
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Warning Call to the Liberals: Friedrich von Hayek’s False Friends
January 10, 2019
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Do Liberals Have to Be Optimists?
December 03, 2018
Freedom TV Europe
Freedom to Cross Your Own Border: Stefan Kolev
October 23, 2018
Jewish News Sofia
Evil Magicians and the History of Ideas
October 20, 2018
Bulgarian National Television
Economic Ideas against a Disintegrating World
August 06, 2018
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Ordoliberal Globalists: Ideas and the Order of the Global Economy
July 23, 2018
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Virtues of Liberty: Wilhelm Röpke as Cultural Economist
April 16, 2018
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Freiburgian Austerity? Ordoliberalism and the Euro Crisis
March 20, 2018
Economy Magazine Sofia
The Technological Revolution Will Not Leave Us Jobless
February 05, 2018
ThinkMarkets Blog
Friedrich von Wieser, or: Against “Sidelining” Austrian Economists
February 01, 2018
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Fast Eurozone Accession of Bulgaria Wakes Skepticism
September 29, 2017
WirtschaftsWoche
Nobel Prize: The Freak Show (Endorsement of Israel M. Kirzner for the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics)
July 01, 2017
Schweizer Monat Zurich
The Split: On the Recent Developments in the Liberal Camp
March 20, 2017
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The Viennese Culture of Conversation: Understanding and Defending Fragile Orders
March 13, 2017
Basler Zeitung
Trump’s Activities Are Really Dangerous: Economist Stefan Kolev on the Destabilization of the West and the Role of Economists
January 06, 2017
Fazit – Economics Blog of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
New Economics of Order
December 02, 2016
Schweizer Monat Zurich
US Elections: Pondering at the Bar of Duke University
October 07, 2016
WirtschaftsWoche
Nobel Prize: Waiting for Stockholm (Endorsement of Israel M. Kirzner for the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics)
September 03, 2016
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
Kick It Like Borissow
July 12, 2016
Badische Zeitung
Network for Constitutional Economics and Social Philosophy (NOUS) Holds Founding Conference
June 01, 2016
Schweizer Monat Zurich
Stress Test for the Global Village
April 18, 2016
Le Temps Lausanne
Röpke, l’économiste qui voulait dépasser l’offre et la demande
October 01, 2015
Schweizer Monat Zurich
Debating Liberalism: Releasing the Handbrake
September 30, 2015
Freie Presse Zwickau
A Bulgarian Finds New Home in Zwickau
September 14, 2015
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Against Silence: Walter Lippmann as Opinion Maker
July 31, 2015
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The Risks of ECB’s Low Interest Rates Policies
November 15, 2014
Bulgarian National Radio
The Heritage of Totalitarianisms in Europe
November 08, 2014
Huffington Post Germany
Myths of the Centrally Planned Economy of the GDR
October 17, 2014
Bulgaria on Air TV
The Future of Europe from a Classical Liberal Perspective
August 31, 2014
Bulgaria on Air TV
New Realities in Ukraine
August 07, 2014
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Bulgaria amid Corruption and Nepotism
March 09, 2014
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Heinrich von Stackelberg: How Oligopolies Distort the Market
March 08, 2014
Freie Presse Zwickau
One Can Trick a Lot with Numbers
October 23, 2013
Radio Zwickau
The Fiscal Crisis in the USA
October 21, 2013
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Economists as “Hans in Luck”: Is there Progress in Economics?
September 09, 2013
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Liberal. Libertarian. Neoliberal: Stefan Kolev Compares Great Economists’ State Conceptions
August 25, 2013
Bulgaria on Air TV
The Essence and Future of Capitalism: Stefan Kolev vs. Ljubomir Hristov (Former Chief Economist of Bulgarian National Bank)
August 08, 2013
Le Cercle Les Echos Paris
Bulgarie: révolte contre la cleptocratie
November 19, 2012
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Mainstream or Mainline? How Economics Can Regain Its Relevance
October 24, 2012
Freie Presse Zwickau
University of Applied Sciences Zwickau: Rector Distributes Certificates and Medals
September 24, 2012
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Pleading for Liberty: Contributions to Constitutional Economics and Distribution Policies
August 28, 2012
Blog Wirtschaftliche Freiheit
Public Finances in Central and Eastern Europe: A Continuous Success Story?
July 02, 2012
Blog Wirtschaftliche Freiheit
Book Review of Gerhard Wegner’s “Economic Liberalism as a Political Theory”
July 02, 2012
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Prerequisites of Liberty: A Volume with Important Contributions by Hans Willgerodt
May 03, 2012
Blog Wirtschaftliche Freiheit
8 Years since the EU Eastern Enlargement: A Win-Win?
March 08, 2012
Blog Wirtschaftliche Freiheit
Hungary’s Crisis from the Perspective of Constitutional Economics
February 27, 2012
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
No Market without the Rule of Law
October 15, 2011
Stuttgarter Zeitung
Why Bulgaria Poses Conditions to the EU: HWWI Economist Stefan Kolev Explains the New Self-Confidence of His Fellow Countrymen