An economic history of twentieth-century Europe : economic regimes from laissez-faire to globalization / / Ivan T. Berend [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457852203321
• Autore: Berend T. Iván (Tibor Iván), <1930->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2006
• ISBN: 1-107-15578-9; 1-107-38619-5; 0-511-80062-2; 0-511-64828-6; 0-511-16780-6; 0-511-56863-0; 0-511-16832-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 356 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 330.94/05
• Soggetti: Europe Economic conditions 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Europe's laissez-faire system and its impact before World War I -- The rise of Britain and the laissez-faire system -- Rising modern sectors -- Europe's position in the world -- Rising disparity within Europe -- The beginning of Scandinavia's catching-up -- The Southern and Eastern peripheries remaining behind -- The challenge of globalized laissez-faire -- Decline of laissez-faire and the rise of the regulated market system -- The turning point : war economy 1914--18, postwar chaos, and the agony of laissez-faire -- Failed attempts to return to 'normalcy' -- The death of laissez-faire, and extreme state regulations during the Great Depression -- The theory of regulated market -- War economy 1939--45 -- The impact of the regulated market economy : European economic performance -- Europe's deteriorating role in the world -- Economic dirigisme in authoritarian--fascist regimes -- The origins and characteristics of economic dirigisme -- Functions and programs of the state -- Self-sufficiency, planning and the populist welfare system -- Dictated regional economic integration -- Economic results ; -- The centrally planned economic system -- Marxist theoretical legacy, Lenin, and the Bolshevik program -- Forced industrialization and central planning : "socialism in one country" -- From an isolated Soviet system to the Soviet bloc -- The characteristics of the centrally planned economic system -- Safeguarding and attempts to legitimize the regime -- Regional integration system of planned economies -- The goal and balance sheet of the centrally planned economy -- Rapid growth and industrialization : reproduced backwardness -- Reform attempts that failed -- Crisis and collapse -- Mixed economy and welfare state in an integrated post-World War II Western Europe -- Postwar international regulations -- Economic integration and the rise of the European Union -- The emergence of Sozialpartnerschaft and the mixed economy -- Planning in mixed economies -- The rise of the welfare state -- Educational revolution -- Economic growth and structural changes -- Globalization : return to laissez-faire? -- Globalization and its characteristics -- Globalization of the laissez-faire ideology and system -- The impact of globalization on Europe -- The challenge of mixed economy and welfare state -- Globalization and inequality -- Rising global environmental considerations and regulations -- Europe : a rising economic superpower.
• Sommario/riassunto: A major new history of economic regimes and economic performance throughout the twentieth century. Ivan T. Berend looks at the historic development of the twentieth-century European economy, examining both its failures and its successes in responding to the challenges of this crisis-ridden and troubled but highly successful age. The book surveys the European economy's chronological development, the main factors of economic growth, and the various economic regimes that were invented and introduced in Europe during the twentieth century. Professor Berend shows how the vast disparity between the European regions that had characterized earlier periods gradually began to disappear during the course of the twentieth century as more and more countries reached a more or less similar level of economic development. This accessible book will be required reading for students in European economic history, economics, and modern European history.