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Selling the economic miracle : economic reconstruction and politics in West Germany, 1949-1957 / Mark E. Spicka.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spicka, Mark E.
- , Knowledge Unlatched, Author.
- Series:
- Monographs in German history.
- Monographs in German history ; v. 18.
- Monographs in German history Selling the economic miracle
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free enterprise--Germany (West)--History--20th century.
- Free enterprise.
- Free enterprise--History--20th century--Germany (West).
- Germany (West)--Politics and government.
- Germany (West).
- Germany (West)--Economic policy--1945-1990.
- Germany (West)--Economic conditions--1945-1990.
- Germany (West)--Social policy--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 288 pages) : illustrations ;
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Mark E. Spicka is Associate Professor of History at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany in 1996/1997. Mark E. Spicka is Associate Professor of History at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany in 1996/1997.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-276) and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed November 14 2025)
- ISBN:
- 9781789206401
- 1789206405
- 9781845452230
- 1845452232
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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