Ludwig Erhard

Author : Alfred C. Mierzejewski
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807863688

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Ludwig Erhard by Alfred C. Mierzejewski Pdf

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 1950s that helped stabilize Germany's first successful democracy. While recent scholarship has dismissed Erhard's influence on Germany's economic recovery, Mierzejewski returns to little-cited German analyses and Erhard's own record and concludes that Allied currency reform and Erhard's liberalization of the economy were crucial triggers for Germany's unprecedented economic boom. Mierzejewski provides insight into Erhard's policies, his ideas, his character, and his relationships with Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle. By offering a fresh account of Erhard's career as a leader in postwar West Germany, Mierzejewski provides a deeper understanding of Germany's economy as well as its democracy.

Author : Ludwig Erhard
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Germany
ISBN : 9781610163538

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Prosperity Through Competition by Ludwig Erhard Pdf

Author : Ludwig Erhard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Germany (West)
ISBN : UOM:39015011866491

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The Economics of Success by Ludwig Erhard Pdf

Author : Andreas Kluth
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101554197

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Hannibal and Me by Andreas Kluth Pdf

A dynamic and exciting way to understand success and failure, through the life of Hannibal, one of history's greatest generals. The life of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with his army in 218 B.C.E., is the stuff of legend. And the epic choices he and his opponents made-on the battlefield and elsewhere in life-offer lessons about responding to our victories and our defeats that are as relevant today as they were more than 2,000 years ago. A big new idea book inspired by ancient history, Hannibal and Me explores the truths behind triumph and disaster in our lives by examining the decisions made by Hannibal and others, including Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Steve Jobs, Ernest Shackleton, and Paul Cézanne-men and women who learned from their mistakes. By showing why some people overcome failure and others succumb to it, and why some fall victim to success while others thrive on it, Hannibal and Me demonstrates how to recognize the seeds of success within our own failures and the threats of failure hidden in our successes. The result is a page-turning adventure tale, a compelling human drama, and an insightful guide to understanding behavior. This is essential reading for anyone who seeks to transform misfortune into success at work, at home, and in life.

Author : James C. Van Hook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139452199

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Rebuilding Germany by James C. Van Hook Pdf

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.

Author : William Warren Bartley
Publisher : Clarkson Potter Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015002844036

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Werner Erhard by William Warren Bartley Pdf

Author : Mark E. Spicka
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1845452232

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Selling the Economic Miracle by Mark E. Spicka Pdf

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.

Author : Ronald J. Granieri
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1571814922

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The Ambivalent Alliance by Ronald J. Granieri Pdf

The opening of various personal and party archives over the past few years has now made the entire Adenauer era accessible for historians. Using this material to re-examine existing conventional wisdom about the period, the text traces the roles of Adenauer and the CDU/CSU is shaping the Westbindung.

Author : Anthony James Nicholls
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Germany
ISBN : 0198208529

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Freedom with Responsibility by Anthony James Nicholls Pdf

This book goes behind the success story of the Federal Republic of Germany since the Second World War to examine the principles underpinning the so-called "economic miracle." A.J. Nicholls examines the intellectual origins and history of the concept of the Social Market Economy, and its implementation in the difficult years of post-war devastation and recovery in West Germany. He traces the struggle of liberal economists to assert their ideas in the unfavorable circumstances from 1933 to 1948, when they triumphed with Erhard's implementation of a policy of liberalization following currency reform. The book analyzes the extent to which West Germany's economic success was due to Erhard's policies, and assesses his attempts to attain the goals of the social market up to 1963, when he became Federal Chancellor. Nicholls's study makes an important contribution to our understanding of the historical dynamics of the German economy and the political culture of the Federal Republic.

Author : Marc Flandreau,Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich,Harold James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521819954

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International Financial History in the Twentieth Century by Marc Flandreau,Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich,Harold James Pdf

The essays, written by leading experts, examine the history of the international financial system in terms of the debate about globalization and its limits. In the nineteenth century, international markets existed without international institutions. A response to the problems of capital flows came in the form of attempts to regulate national capital markets (for instance through the establishment of central banks). In the inter-war years, there were (largely unsuccessful) attempts at designing a genuine international trade and monetary system; and at the same time (coincidentally) the system collapsed. In the post-1945 era, the intended design effort was infinitely more successful. The development of large international capital markets since the 1960s, however, increasingly frustrated attempts at international control. The emphasis has shifted in consequence to debates about increasing the transparency and effectiveness of markets; but these are exactly the issues that already dominated the nineteenth-century discussions.

Author : Alan T. Peacock,Hans Willgerodt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349201488

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German Neo-Liberals and the Social Market Economy by Alan T. Peacock,Hans Willgerodt Pdf

This volume is a collection of ten essays in which the authors assess the contribution of the German Ordo-liberals fifty years after the founders of the liberal movement in Germany stated their aims and objectives. The Ordo-liberals were a group of liberal economic and legal thinkers in the Federal Republic of Germany who came into prominence as a result of their influence on, and participation in, post-war economic policy in the Federal Republic when Ludwig Erhard was Minister for Economic Affairs and, later, Chancellor. They became known as Ordo-liberals because of their commitment to designing the appropriate economic and legal system. The essays in this volume consider not only the philosophy of the Ordo-liberals and their concept of the social market economy, but are also concerned with the contribution of the Ordo-liberals to more practical problems. The role of the public sector, the control of mergers and monopolies and the problem of sound money are among the topics considered, as well as the views of the Ordo-liberals on the international order. Many of the authors of these essays are well known internationally and they represent a wide range of contemporary liberal thought. The book will be warmly welcomed by students and scholars interested in economic philosophy and the place of liberalism in contemporary thought. The essays in this volume have been translated from the German in order to bring to the notice of a wider public the views of a group of German liberal economic and legal thinkers. This group of economists and lawyers came into prominence as a result of their influence on, and participation in, post-war economic policy in the Federal Republic of Germany when Ludwig Erhard was Minister for Economic Affairs and, later, Chancellor. Seventeen essays have been selected to express the thoughts of the group who, because of their commitment ot designing the appropriate economic and legal order system, became known as Ordo-liberals. The essays deal with a wide range of contemporary problems, such as the control of monopolies, the problem of the welfare state and the need for self-help, the role of the trade unions in industrial societies, as well as with the more philosophical question of whether capitalist and communist systems are moving closer together in their approach to economic problems to such an extent that they will eventually converge. This book will be of interest to all those who are concerned with contemporary problems both at practical and philosophical levels.

Author : Delia Ferri,Fulvio Cortese
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351068505

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The EU Social Market Economy and the Law by Delia Ferri,Fulvio Cortese Pdf

Investigating the extent to which the European Union can be defined as a "highly competitive social market economy", this edited collection illustrates and tests the constitutional reverberations of Art. 3(3) of the Treaty on the European Union, and discusses its actual and potential transformative effect. In the aftermath of Brexit, and in the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the book is particularly timely and topical, offering new and deeper insights on the complex and constantly evolving social dimension of the EU, ultimately reflecting on how the objective of (re)constituting the EU as a "highly competitive social market economy" might best be achieved.

Author : Hanna Schissler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691222554

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The Miracle Years by Hanna Schissler Pdf

Stereotypical descriptions showcase West Germany as an "economic miracle" or cast it in the narrow terms of Cold War politics. Such depictions neglect how material hardship preceded success and how a fascist past and communist sibling complicated the country's image as a bastion of democracy. Even more disappointing, they brush over a rich and variegated cultural history. That history is told here by leading scholars of German history, literature, and film in what is destined to become the volume on postwar West German culture and society. In it, we read about the lives of real people--from German children fathered by black Occupation soldiers to communist activists, from surviving Jews to Turkish "guest" workers, from young hoodlums to middle-class mothers. We learn how they experienced and represented the institutions and social forces that shaped their lives and defined the wider culture. We see how two generations of West Germans came to terms not only with war guilt, division from East Germany, and the Angst of nuclear threat, but also with changing gender relations, the Americanization of popular culture, and the rise of conspicuous consumption. Individually, these essays peer into fascinating, overlooked corners of German life. Together, they tell what it really meant to live in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Volker R. Berghahn, Frank Biess, Heide Fehrenbach, Michael Geyer, Elizabeth Heineman, Ulrich Herbert, Maria Höhn, Karin Hunn, Kaspar Maase, Richard McCormick, Robert G. Moeller, Lutz Niethammer, Uta G. Poiger, Diethelm Prowe, Frank Stern, Arnold Sywottek, Frank Trommler, Eric D. Weitz, Juliane Wetzel, and Dorothee Wierling.

Author : Christian Ludwig Glossner,David Gregosz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Cost and standard of living
ISBN : 3942775255

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The Formation and Implementation of the Social Market Economy by Alfred Müller-Armack and Ludwig Erhard by Christian Ludwig Glossner,David Gregosz Pdf

Author : Niklas Olsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319895840

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The Sovereign Consumer by Niklas Olsen Pdf

This book presents a new intellectual history of neoliberalism through the exploration of the sovereign consumer. Invented by neoliberal thinkers in the interwar period, this figure has been crucial to the construction and legimitization of neoliberal ideology and politics. Analysis of the sovereign consumer across time and space demonstrates how neoliberals have linked the figure both to the idea of democracy as a method of choice, and also to a re-invention of the market as the democratic forum par excellence. Moreover, Olsen contemplates how the sovereign consumer has served to marketize politics and functioned as a major driver in a wide-ranging transformation in political thinking, subjecting traditional political values to the narrow pursuit of economic growth. A politically timely project, The Sovereign Consumer will have a wide appeal in academic circles, especially for those interested in consumer and welfare studies, and in political, economic and cultural thought in the twentieth century.