03278oam 2200685I 450 991081087110332120240402100813.01-134-90731-11-280-32600-X0-585-46049-30-203-16781-310.4324/9780203167816 (CKB)1000000000003426(EBL)165707(OCoLC)60565511(SSID)ssj0000297816(PQKBManifestationID)11256350(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000297816(PQKBWorkID)10343994(PQKB)10326014(MiAaPQ)EBC165707(Au-PeEL)EBL165707(CaPaEBR)ebr2003735(CaONFJC)MIL32600(OCoLC)1000426651(EXLCZ)99100000000000342620180706d1990 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGovernment and economies in the postwar world economic policies and comparative performance, 1945-85 /edited by Andrew Graham with Anthony Seldon1st ed.London ;New York :Routledge,1990.1 online resource (347 p.)The new Routledge library of economics"New in paperback 1991" -- T.P. verso.1-138-44021-3 0-415-07288-3 Includes bibliographies and index.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; IndexThe 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, UInternational economic relationsEuropeEconomic conditions1945-EuropeEconomic policyJapanEconomic conditions1945-JapanEconomic policy1945-United StatesEconomic conditions1945-United StatesEconomic policyInternational economic relations.330.9Graham Andrew1942-1684368Seldon Anthony123247FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910810871103321Government and economies in the postwar world4055828UNINA