ABSTRACT
The activities of the state in the order of liberty can be broken down roughly into coercive and non-coercive activities. Coercive activities (13.1) are measures involving an encroachment on the rights of the people. Since normally this is only possible through interference in the fundamentally comprehensive, or all-encompassing right to freedom, we may also speak of interference activities. Non-coercive activities (13.2) are measures resulting in a benefit to all or, more realistically, to a particular group of people. In particular, the state provides public services; therefore we may also speak of service activities.1 In the economic realm, a most significant question is in which way do the demands or requirements of the principles of the order of liberty have an impact on economic policy, and especially on Ordnungspolitik (13.3). In addition, we need to focus once more on welfare economics and show that it grants the state a general authorization to circumscribe individual freedom for special purposes (13.4).
