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Consumers and businessmen battled against the bureaucratic regime of controls and rationing in what the German economist Ludwig Erhard described as Der Papierkrieg the paper war.
The German Miracle: Another Look Lawrence H. White 2010
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Paper Wars - Papierkrieg from Makaio Tisu on Vimeo.
Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now Tim Stevens 2010
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Discussed in Howard Rheingold's They Have a Word for It (1988), where it is defined as "complicated paperwork connected with making a complaint."
October 11, 2011