It predicted that over the next decade West Germany’s gross national product will grow more slowly than that of any other major Common Market nation save Belgium (whose economy is only one-fifth ...

As Germany's minister of economic affairs from 1949 to 1963, Ludwig Erhard crafted the plan for West Germany's post-World War II economic recovery, sometimes called the German "economic miracle." ...

The Father of Germany's Economic Miracle . As West Germany was in its infancy, a heavy debate over the direction of the new state's fiscal policy ensued. Many, including labor leaders and members ...

Germany’s economy is in a slump, ... Yet so spectacular was West Germany’s recovery during the 1950s and 1960s that it became known as the “Wirtschaftswunder,” or economic miracle.

The other postwar miracle, far to Japan’s west, is the subject of a new book, Kaput: The End of the German Miracle.Its author, financial journalist and New Statesman columnist Wolfgang Münchau, claims ...

One of the mainstays of West Germany’s postwar “economic miracle” was its skilled and disciplined workers, who willingly accepted low wages while producing first-class products that won ...

Germany’s economy is in a slump, ... Yet so spectacular was West Germany’s recovery during the 1950s and 1960s that it became known as the “Wirtschaftswunder,” or economic miracle.