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Edward A. Tenenbaum and the Creation of the Deutsche Mark: Who’s the Money Doctor?

In: Money Doctors Around the Globe

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  • Vincent Bignon

    (Banque de France
    Aix-Marseille School of Economics of the University of Aix-Marseille
    CEPR)

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On Sunday 20 June 1948, the Deutsche Mark was swapped against the Reichsmark and became immediately used in all transactions and evicted all others means of payment. This success was associated with a massive upsurge of consumption and productivity, all things that were predicted by the money doctor. This chapter describes the West-German monetary reform and revisits the literature on who the money doctors of this reform were. This issue is somewhat controversial, as some claimed that it was the to-be German economic minister Ludwig Ehrard, while others suggested that it has to be attributed to the US military government, and notably to the advisor of the finance director, Edward Tenenbaum. This chapter shows that it took more money doctors than Tenenbaum to have engineered this reform.

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  • Vincent Bignon, 2024. "Edward A. Tenenbaum and the Creation of the Deutsche Mark: Who’s the Money Doctor?," Studies in Economic History, in: Andrés Álvarez & Vincent Bignon & Anders Ögren & Masato Shizume (ed.), Money Doctors Around the Globe, pages 333-353, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:stechp:978-981-97-0134-6_18
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-0134-6_18
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