Freedom with Responsibility: The Social Market Economy in Germany, 1918-1963

by Anthony James Nicholls

Book Overview

This book goes behind the success story of the Federal Republic of Germany since the Second World War to examine the principles underpinning the so-called "economic miracle." A.J. Nicholls examines the intellectual origins and history of the concept of the Social Market Economy, and its implementation in the difficult years of post-war devastation and recovery in West Germany. He traces the struggle of liberal economists to assert their ideas in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198208529
• ISBN13: 9780198208525
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 440 Pages