Taking a comparative and transnational perspective in its exploration of East and Western Europe, this volume analyses the history of industrial policy after the Second World War. It investigates differences and similarities, looks at transfers across national borders and locates industrial policy i
Industrial Policy in Europe after 1945: Wealth, Power and Economic Development in the Cold War
β Scribed by Christian Grabas, Alexander NΓΌtzenadel (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 397
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
European Industrial Policies in the Post-War Boom: βPlanning the Economic Miracleβ....Pages 13-47
The State and Industrial Policy in Britain, 1950β1974....Pages 48-66
Whatβs in a Name? French Industrial Policy, 1950β1975....Pages 67-85
Ensuring Economic Growth and Socioeconomic Stabilization: Industrial Policy in West Germany, 1950β1975....Pages 86-112
Swedish Industrial Policy: From General Policies to Crisis Management, 1950β1980....Pages 113-133
Planning the Economic Miracle? Industrial Policy in Italy Between Boom and Crisis, 1950β1975....Pages 134-161
Was it a Spanish Miracle? Development Plans and Regional Industrialization, 1950β1975....Pages 162-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Towards a Global History of the Marshall Plan. European Post-War Reconstruction and the Rise of Development Economic Expertise....Pages 187-212
Towards a European Industrial Policy? The European Economic Community (EEC) Debates, 1957β1975....Pages 213-235
Entangled Industrialization. The EEC and Industrial Development in Francophone West Africa....Pages 236-255
The EEC and the Challenge of the ACP Statesβ Industrialization, 1972β1975....Pages 256-276
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
Industrial Policy and its Failure in the Soviet Bloc....Pages 279-299
Planning Priorities, Managing Shortages: Industrial Policy in the German Democratic Republic, from Stalinism to Welfare Dictatorship....Pages 300-320
Economic Growth and the Industrial Development Policy in Hungary, 1950β1975....Pages 321-336
Industrial Performance in the USSR: Influences of State Priorities, Economic System, Industrial Policies and Hidden Processes, 1945β1980....Pages 337-371
Back Matter....Pages 372-388
β¦ Subjects
World History, Global and Transnational History; Political History; Social History; European History; Economic History; Modern History
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