TY - GEN AU - Spicka,Mark E. TI - Selling the Economic Miracle : Economic Reconstruction and Politics in West Germany, 1949-1957 SN - j.ctvvb7n6z PY - 2007///0101 PB - Berghahn Books KW - Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 KW - bicssc KW - History KW - Economics KW - 20th century KW - twentieth KW - Postwar KW - Germany KW - Business KW - Federal KW - Republic N1 - Open Access N2 - 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 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24882/1/1005222.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24882/1/1005222.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24882/1/1005222.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32951 ER -