02525nam 2200565Ia 450 991045189310332120200520144314.00-8078-6368-8(CKB)1000000000452659(EBL)413360(OCoLC)559084606(SSID)ssj0000194802(PQKBManifestationID)11189394(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194802(PQKBWorkID)10232808(PQKB)10632954(MiAaPQ)EBC413360(Au-PeEL)EBL413360(CaPaEBR)ebr10075638(EXLCZ)99100000000045265920031001d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrLudwig Erhard[electronic resource] a biography /by Alfred C. MierzejewskiChapel Hill The University of North Carolina Pressc20041 online resource (296 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4696-2139-8 0-8078-2863-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-272) and index.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.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 influenceHeads of stateGermany (West)BiographyGermany (West)Politics and governmentGermany (West)Economic policyElectronic books.Heads of state943.087/6/092943.0876092Mierzejewski Alfred C938718MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451893103321Ludwig Erhard2115770UNINA