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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827415903321

Autore

Mierzejewski Alfred C

Titolo

Ludwig Erhard : a biography / / by Alfred C. Mierzejewski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : The University of North Carolina Press, c2004

ISBN

979-88-908783-4-2

0-8078-6368-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

943.087/6/092

943.0876092

Soggetti

Heads of state - Germany (West)

Germany (West) Politics and government

Germany (West) Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-272) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Education of an economist, 1897-1945 -- Ludwig Erhard's ideas -- Breakthrough, 1945-1949 -- Politics against economics, 1949-1953 -- The perils of prosperity, 1953-1957 -- Gliding downward, 1957-1963 -- Disappointment, 1963-1966 -- The unpolitician.

Sommario/riassunto

In the first English-language biography of one of the most important figures in postwar German history, Alfred C. Mierzejewski examines the life and service of Ludwig Erhard (1897-1977), West Germany's first minister of economics and second chancellor. Erhard liberalized the German economy in 1948 and is generally considered the father of West Germany's ""economic miracle""--the period of extraordinary growth in jobs and improvement in the standard of living in the 1950's that helped stabilize Germany's first successful democracy. While recent scholarship has dismissed Erhard's influence