Rebuilding Germany: The Creation of the Social Market Economy, 1945-1957

By James C. Van Hook

Book Overview

In a nuanced and fresh account, James Van Hook evaluates the American role in West German recovery and the debates about economic policy within West Germany. He examines the 1948 West German economic reforms that dismantled the Nazi command economy and ushered in the fabled economic miracle of the 1950s. By abandoning Nazi era economic controls, the West Germans discarded a pre-1945 economic and industrial culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521039967
• ISBN13: 9780521039963
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"