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Europe's post-war recovery / edited by Barry Eichengreen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in monetary and financial historyPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995Description: ix, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521482798
  • 9780521482790
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.94055 20
LOC classification:
  • HC240 .E873 1995
Contents:
Part I. Introduction and Survey: -- 1. Mainsprings of economic recovery in post-war Europe / Barry Eichengreen -- Part II. The Marshall Plan: -- 2. The Marshall Plan reconsidered / Lucrezia Reichlin -- 3. Influencing aid recipients: Marshall Plan lessons for contemporary aid donors / Chiarella Esposito -- Part III. Other International Intitiatives: -- 4. The IMF and the creation of the Bretton Woods System, 1944-58 / Harold James -- 5. The GATT's contribution to economic recovery in post-war Western Europe / Douglas A. Irwin -- 6. The European Coal and Steel Community: an object lesson? / John Gillingham -- 7. The European Payments Union: an efficient mechanism for rebuilding Europe's trade? / Barry Eichengreen -- Part IV. Country Studies: -- 8. Germany and the political economy of the Marshall Plan, 1947-52: a re-revisionist view / Helge Berger and Albrecht Ritschl -- 9. 'You've never had it so good?': British economic policy and performance, 1945-60 / N. F. R. Crafts -- 10. 'Belgian miracle' to slow growth: the impact of the Marshall Plan and the European Payments Union / Isabelle Cassiers -- 11. France: real and monetary aspects of exchange rate policy under the Fourth Republic / Gilles Saint-Paul -- Part V. Synthesis: -- 12. Post-war Germany in the European context: domestic and external determinants of growth / Holger C. Wolf.
Summary: "Western Europe's recovery from World War II was nothing short of miraculous. From the chaos of the war and the crisis of 1947, Europe moved directly to the most rapid quarter-century of economic growth in her history. The contributors to this volume seek to identify the sources of this singularly successful recovery. That all European countries shared in the miracle suggests that its roots may lie at the international level. The chapters therefore focus on the role played by international institutions - the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Coal and Steel Community, the European Payments Union, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade - and weigh the relative importance of domestic and international factors in Europe's postwar recovery. This book will be of interest to students of modern European history and to economists interested in economic growth, European economic integration, and reform of the Bretton Woods institutions."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Introduction and Survey: -- 1. Mainsprings of economic recovery in post-war Europe / Barry Eichengreen -- Part II. The Marshall Plan: -- 2. The Marshall Plan reconsidered / Lucrezia Reichlin -- 3. Influencing aid recipients: Marshall Plan lessons for contemporary aid donors / Chiarella Esposito -- Part III. Other International Intitiatives: -- 4. The IMF and the creation of the Bretton Woods System, 1944-58 / Harold James -- 5. The GATT's contribution to economic recovery in post-war Western Europe / Douglas A. Irwin -- 6. The European Coal and Steel Community: an object lesson? / John Gillingham -- 7. The European Payments Union: an efficient mechanism for rebuilding Europe's trade? / Barry Eichengreen -- Part IV. Country Studies: -- 8. Germany and the political economy of the Marshall Plan, 1947-52: a re-revisionist view / Helge Berger and Albrecht Ritschl -- 9. 'You've never had it so good?': British economic policy and performance, 1945-60 / N. F. R. Crafts -- 10. 'Belgian miracle' to slow growth: the impact of the Marshall Plan and the European Payments Union / Isabelle Cassiers -- 11. France: real and monetary aspects of exchange rate policy under the Fourth Republic / Gilles Saint-Paul -- Part V. Synthesis: -- 12. Post-war Germany in the European context: domestic and external determinants of growth / Holger C. Wolf.

"Western Europe's recovery from World War II was nothing short of miraculous. From the chaos of the war and the crisis of 1947, Europe moved directly to the most rapid quarter-century of economic growth in her history. The contributors to this volume seek to identify the sources of this singularly successful recovery. That all European countries shared in the miracle suggests that its roots may lie at the international level. The chapters therefore focus on the role played by international institutions - the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Coal and Steel Community, the European Payments Union, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade - and weigh the relative importance of domestic and international factors in Europe's postwar recovery. This book will be of interest to students of modern European history and to economists interested in economic growth, European economic integration, and reform of the Bretton Woods institutions."--Publisher description.

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