Selling the Economic Miracle

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1950s
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Author_Mark E. Spicka
black market
Bundestag Election
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CDU
Christian Democratic Union
Christian Social Union
conservative party
consumer goods
consumerism
CSU
currency reform
Deutsche Mark
die waage
economic growth
economic power
election campaign
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eq_business-finance-law
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Europe
Federal Republic of Germany
free market
German economy
Korean Crisis
post-war Germany
Propaganda
Reichsmark
Social Market Economy
standard of living
West German Society

Product details

  • ISBN 9781845452230
  • Weight: 535g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Aug 2007
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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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.

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.

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