Postwar economic reconstruction and lessons for the East today
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Postwar economic reconstruction and lessons for the East today
MIT Press, c1993
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The case studies in this book examine significant parallels between the situation in Eastern Europe today and the issues facing Europe and Japan after World War II, offering insights on what kinds of policy actions will be most effective in this difficult period of reconstruction.The breakup of the Soviet Union and the consequent extraordinary problems faced by Eastern European nations raise pressing economic questions. The case studies in this book examine significant parallels between the situation in Eastern Europe today and the issues facing Europe and Japan after World War II, offering insights on what kinds of policy actions will be most effective in this difficult period of reconstruction. The essays address such topics as the relative roles of government and the market; economic openness; industrial conversion from war to peacetime production; the roles of institutions, enterprises, the business community, and their work staffs; and external control of policy measures, of resources made available by the outside world, and of the general external environment. In their introductory chapter, the editors provide an overview that addresses the question of whether reconstruction can ever be managed smoothly.ContentsOpenness, Wage Restraint, and Macroeconomic Stability: West Germany's Road to Prosperity 1948-1959, H. Giersch, K. H. Paque, M. Schmieding * The Lucky Miracle: Germany 1945-1951, H. Wolf * Inflation and Stabilization in Italy 1946-1951, M. De Cecco and F. Giavazzi * Economic Reconstruction in France 1945-1958, G. Saint-Paul * Reconstruction and the U.K. Postwar Welfare State: False Start and New Beginning, P. Minford * A Perspective on Postwar Reconstruction in Finland, J. Paunio * The Reconstruction and Stabilization of the Postwar Japanese Economy, K. Hamada and M. Kasuya * The Marshall Plan: History's Most Successful Structural Adjustment Program, J. B. De Long and B. Eichengreen * Lessons for Eastern Europe Today, 0. Blanchard, R. Portes, W. Nolling
Table of Contents
- Openness, wage restraint and macroeconomic stability - West Germany's road to prosperity 1948-1959, H. Giersch et al
- the lucky miracle - Germany 1945-1951, H. Wolf
- inflation and stabilization in Italy 1946-1951, M. De Cecco and F. Giavazzi
- economic reconstruction in France 1945-1958, G. Saint-Paul
- reconstruction and the UK postwar welfare state - false start and new beginning, P. Minford
- a perspective on post-war reconstrction in Finland, J. Paunio
- the reconstruction and stabilization of the postwar Japanese economy, K. Hamada and M. Kasuya
- the Marshall plan - history's most successful structural adjustment programme, J.B. De Long and B. Eichengreen
- lessons for Eastern Europe today, O. Blanchard et al.
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