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Record Nr.

UNINA9910332059103321

Autore

Spicka Mark E

Titolo

Selling the economic miracle : economic reconstruction and politics in West Germany, 1949-1957 / / Mark E. Spicka [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2007

ISBN

1-78920-640-5

1-84545-223-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 288 p. ) : ill. ;

Collana

Monographs in German history  Selling the economic miracle

Monographs in German history ; ; v. 18

Disciplina

330.943/0875

Soggetti

Free enterprise - Germany (West) - History - 20th century

Free enterprise - History - 20th century - Germany (West)

Business & Economics

Economic History

Germany (West) Politics and government

Germany (West) Economic policy 1945-1990

Germany (West) Economic conditions 1945-1990

Germany (West) Social policy History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-276) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Origins of the social market economy and the currency reform of 1948 -- Market or planned? the 1949 Bundestag election -- The Korean crisis, the social market economy, and public opinion -- Public relations for the social market economy : die Waage -- Creating a CDU/CSU public relations machine : the 1953 Bundestag election -- The triumph of the economic miracle : the CDU/CSU and the 1957 Bundestag election.

Sommario/riassunto

Through an examination of election campaign propaganda and various public relations campaigns, reflecting new electioneering techniques borrowed from the United States, this work explores how conservative political and economic groups sought to construct and sell a political meaning of the Social Market Economy and the Economic Miracle in West Germany during the 1950s.The political meaning of economics



contributed to conservative electoral success, constructed a new belief in the free market economy within West German society, and provided legitimacy and political stability for the new Federal Republic of Germany.