The Economic Consequences of the War

West Germany's Growth Miracle after 1945

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ID23167706
AuthorsTamás Vonyó (Bocconi University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Publication date2018-02-22
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEconomic Consequences of the War (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781316414927
OpenAlexW4298436942
Open LibraryOL34746421M
ISBN9781316414927
LanguageEN
Citations received8

The 'German Question' dominated much of modern European history. In 1945, Germany was defeated and conquered. Yet, the Second World War did not destroy the foundations of her economic power. Dr Tamás Vonyó revisits Germany's remarkable post-war revival, tracing its roots not to liberal economic reforms and the Marshall Plan, but to the legacies of the war that endowed Germany with an enhanced industrial base and an enlarged labour force. He also shows that Germany's liberal market economy was in reality an economy of regulated markets, controlled prices and extensive state intervention. Using quantitative analysis and drawing on a rich historiography that has remained, in large part, unknown outside of Germany, this book reassesses the role of economic policy and the importance of wartime legacies to explain the German growth miracle after 1945 and the sharply contrasting experiences of East and West Germany.

Economic history · Economic miracle · Economics · Economy · German · Historiography · Intervention (counseling) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · State (computer science) · World War II · European history and politics · European Monetary and Fiscal Policies · History · Law · 1945-1990 · Economic conditions · Economic development · Economic policy · Germany · Germany (West)

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