Ludwig Erhard : a biography / / Alfred C. Mierzejewski

• Autore: Mierzejewski Alfred C
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 2004; ©2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 943.087/6/092; 943.0876092
• Soggetto topico: Heads of state - Germany (West)
• Soggetto geografico: Germany (West) Politics and government; Germany (West) Economic policy
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Ludwig Erhard
• ISBN: 979-88-908783-4-2; 0-8078-6368-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777409203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II