Selling the Economic Miracle

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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Acknowledgments

List of Acronyms



Introduction



Chapter 1. Origins of the Social Market Economy and the Currency Reform of 1948

Chapter 2. Market or Planned? The 1949 Bundestag Election

Chapter 3. The Korean Crisis, the Social Market Economy, and Public Opinion

Chapter 4. Public Relations for the Social Market Economy: Die Waage

Chapter 5. Creating a CDU/CSU Public Relations Machine: The 1953 Bundestag Election

Chapter 6. The Triumph of the Economic Miracle: The CDU/CSU and the 1957 Bundestag Election



Conclusion



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