Europe's post-war recovery Edited by BARRY EICHENGREEN University of California at Berkeley CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Contents List of contributors Preface vii ix Part I Introduction and survey 1 Mainsprings of economic recovery in post-war Europe Barry Eichengreen 3 Part II The Marshall Plan 2 The Marshall Plan reconsidered Lucrezia Reichlin 3 39 Influencing aid recipients: Marshall Plan lessons for contemporary aid donors Chiarella Esposito 68 Part III Other international initiatives 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 93 127 / 151 vi Contents 1 The European Payments Union: an efficient mechanism for rebuilding Europe's trade? Barry Eichengreen 169 Part IV Country studies 8 9 10 Germany and the political economy of the Marshall Plan, 1947-52: a re-revisionist view Helge Berger and Albrecht Ritschl 199 "You've never had it so good?": British economic policy and performance, 1945-60 N.F.R. Crafts 246 "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 French exchange rate policy under the Fourth Republic Gilles Saint-Paul 271 292 Part V Synthesis 12 Post-war Germany in the European context: domestic and external determinants of growth Holger C. Wolf 323 Index 353
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