With numerous scientifically based and practically oriented publications and projects, Rüdiger Soltwedel has clarified the meaning of the social market economy for our free way of life, revealed what it needs to function, and contributed to its acceptance, security, and further development.

With his proposal for an overhaul of the income and corporate taxes, Gunnar Uldall pointed the way: he managed to succeed in overcoming party boundaries and reaching the public with his message that a simple, coherent, and just tax system is absolutely vital to the further development of oursocial market economy.