Bladel (2005)'s own citation apparatus does not distinguish Röpke's 1937 German original from its 1962 English translation

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Bladel's central textual claim — that Wilhelm Röpke printed "spontaneous order" in the 1937 first edition of Die Lehre von der Wirtschaft — cites the passage by bare page numbers only, with no edition or language specified: "(pp. 4–5)." Those page numbers match exactly where the vault's own direct primary read placed the same passage in the 1963 Regnery English translation, at the end of §1 (claim-ropke-1963-translation-confirms-spontaneous-order-commanded-order-phrase-primary-read). Bladel's own reference-list entry for the book compounds the ambiguity: it cites "Röpke, Wilhelm. 1994. Die Lehre von der Wirtschaft. Vienna: Julius Springer Verlag. In Economics of the Free Society. Trans. Patrick M. Boarman. Grove City, Penn.: Libertarian Press" — one citation that names the 1937 Vienna German title and publisher, dates it "1994" (matching neither the 1937 first edition nor the 1962/63 first English translation), and folds in the English translator and an English-language publisher as though describing a single document.

Taken together, an unspecified-edition page citation that matches the English translation's pagination, plus a bibliography entry that visibly merges the German original with an English printing, do not demonstrate that Bladel consulted the 1937 German text directly — even though his prose asserts the wording is from "the first edition of [Röpke's] textbook, printed in 1937." This narrows, without resolving, question-verify-ropke-1937-used-spontaneous-order-in-print: it does not show the 1937 edition lacks the phrase, only that the one scholarly source dating it to 1937 has not shown its own work on that specific point.