Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 312 pages)
ISBN:
0511511930
,
051119532X
,
0511195982
,
9780511195327
,
9780511511936
,
9780511195983
Content:
Planning for reconstruction -- The future of the Ruhr: socialization, decartelization, restoration, 1945-48 -- High hopes and disappointment: the SPD and the planning regime, 1945-47 -- Ludwig Erhard, the CDU and the free-market -- Free markets, investment, and the Ruhr: the Korean War crisis -- The social market economy and competition.
Content:
The social market economy has served as a fundamental pillar of post-war Germany. Today, it is associated with the European welfare state. Initially, it meant the opposite. Rebuilding Germany examines the 1948 West German economic reforms that dismantled the Nazi command economy and ushered in the fabled 'European Miracle' of the 1950s. Van Hook evaluates the US role in German reconstruction, the problematic relationship of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his economics minister, Ludwig Erhard, the West German 'economic miracle', and the extent to which the social market economy represented a departure from the German past. In a nuanced and fresh account, Van Hook evaluates the American role in West German recovery and the debates about economic policy within West Germany, to show that Germans themselves had surprising room to shape their economic and industrial system
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-302) and index
Additional Edition:
9780511193927
Additional Edition:
0511193920
Additional Edition:
1280477903
Additional Edition:
9781280477904
Additional Edition:
9780511194665
Additional Edition:
0511194668
Additional Edition:
0511193920
Additional Edition:
9780521833622
Additional Edition:
0521833620
Additional Edition:
0521833620
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Van Hook, James C., 1968- Rebuilding Germany Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004
Language:
English
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