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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810871103321

Titolo

Government and economies in the postwar world : economic policies and comparative performance, 1945-85 / / edited by Andrew Graham with Anthony Seldon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1990

ISBN

1-134-90731-1

1-280-32600-X

0-585-46049-3

0-203-16781-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 p.)

Collana

The new Routledge library of economics

Altri autori (Persone)

GrahamAndrew <1942->

SeldonAnthony

Disciplina

330.9

Soggetti

International economic relations

Europe Economic conditions 1945-

Europe Economic policy

Japan Economic conditions 1945-

Japan Economic policy 1945-

United States Economic conditions 1945-

United States Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"New in paperback 1991" -- T.P. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction; The international environment; The United Kingdom; France; West Germany; Italy; Spain; Scandinavia; Eastern Europe; The Soviet Union; The United States; Japan; Comparative economic performance of the OECD countries, 1950  87: a summary of the evidence; Benefits of backwardness and costs of continuity; Economic policies and traditions; The meaning of hard work; Political institutions and economic performance; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The chance to begin anew seldom occurs. Yet the nearly complete breakdown of the world economy between 1939 and 1945, together with the dominant position of the United States at the end of the war,



provided just this opportunity. A new international economic order was built on the ruins of the old. How this happened - and the role of government in economic performance - is the subject of this important and timely book. Written by political scientists, contemporary historians and economists, it includes ten country studies covering all the major industrialized nations in the West: the USA, U