Selling the Economic Miracle: Economic Reconstruction and Politics in West Germany, 1949–1957. By Mark E. Spicka. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2007. Pp. xvi+288. Cloth $90.00. ISBN 978-1-84545-223-0.

摘要

Scholars continue to debate the origins ofWest Germany’s astonishing recoverynafter 1948. Competing analyses of the “economic miracle” have highlighted thencomplex relationship between the inevitable results of postwar reconstructionnand the specific policies advocated by Ludwig Erhard, first as economic directornof the Bizone and then as economics minister, without being able to resolve thenissue of which was decisive. Perhaps it is just as well that the question cannot benresolved to everyone’s satisfaction; a true miracle, after all, requires an element ofnmystery.