LEADER 02492nam 2200553Ia 450 001 9910827415903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a979-88-908783-4-2 010 $a0-8078-6368-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000452659 035 $a(EBL)413360 035 $a(OCoLC)559084606 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000194802 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11189394 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194802 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10232808 035 $a(PQKB)10632954 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL413360 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10075638 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC413360 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000452659 100 $a20031001d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLudwig Erhard $ea biography /$fby Alfred C. Mierzejewski 210 $aChapel Hill $cThe University of North Carolina Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) $cillustrations 311 0 $a1-4696-2139-8 311 0 $a0-8078-2863-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 213-272) and index. 327 $aEducation 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. 330 $aIn 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 606 $aHeads of state$zGermany (West)$vBiography 607 $aGermany (West)$xPolitics and government 607 $aGermany (West)$xEconomic policy 615 0$aHeads of state 676 $a943.087/6/092 676 $a943.0876092 700 $aMierzejewski$b Alfred C$01183778 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827415903321 996 $aLudwig Erhard$94011263 997 $aUNINA