03777 am 22007813u 450 991033205910332120230829001709.01-78920-640-51-84545-223-2(CKB)2560000000322366(MH)011191112-5(SSID)ssj0001235232(PQKBManifestationID)12563132(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001235232(PQKBWorkID)11222813(PQKB)11695858(ScCtBLL)6d3d96ce-1e03-4ad7-82cf-1b50840144ab(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32951(EXLCZ)99256000000032236620061208d2007 uy 0enguru||||||||||txtccrSelling the economic miracle economic reconstruction and politics in West Germany, 1949-1957 /Mark E. Spicka[electronic resource]New York Berghahn Books20071 online resource (xvi, 288 p. )ill. ;Monographs in German history Selling the economic miracle Monographs in German history ;v. 18Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: MonographIncludes bibliographical references (p. [262]-276) and index.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.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.Free enterpriseGermany (West)History20th centuryFree enterpriseHistory20th centuryGermany (West)Business & EconomicsHILCCEconomic HistoryHILCCGermany (West)Politics and governmentGermany (West)Economic policy1945-1990Germany (West)Economic conditions1945-1990Germany (West)Social policyHistory20th centuryHistoryEconomics20th centurytwentiethPostwarGermanyBusinessFederalRepublicFree enterpriseHistoryFree enterpriseHistoryBusiness & EconomicsEconomic History330.943/0875Spicka Mark E698814DLCDLCBAKERBTCTAC#PYDXCPBOOK9910332059103321Selling the economic miracle1373156UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress