The European economy since 1945
| Titel: | The European economy since 1945 : coordinated capitalism and beyond / Barry Eichengreen |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Princeton; NJ [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 2007 |
| Umfang: | XX, 495 S. : Tab., graph. Darst. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Princeton economic history of the western world |
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| ISBN: | 0691127107 ; 9780691127101 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- List Of Figures
- List Of Tables
- p. ix
- Preface
- p. xi
- List Of Abbreviations
- p. xv
- Chapter One
- Introduction
- p. 1
- Chapter Two
- Mainsprings of Growth
- p. 15
- Probing Deeper
- p. 20
- Institutional Foundations of the Golden Age
- p. 31
- Institutions and History
- p. 40
- The End of the Golden Age
- p. 47
- Chapter Three
- The Postwar Situation
- p. 52
- Reconstruction
- p. 54
- The Transition to Sustained Growth
- p. 59
- Normalization and the Political Economy of the Marshall Plan
- p. 64
- German Economic and Monetary Reform
- p. 70
- Obstacles to Integration
- p. 73
- The 1949 Devaluations
- p. 77
- The European Payments Union
- p. 79
- Chapter Four
- Dawn of the Golden Age
- p. 86
- Understanding Growth in the 1950s
- p. 89
- Germany as Pacesetter
- p. 93
- Next in Line
- p. 97
- The Laggards
- p. 118
- Toward the Golden Age
- p. 129
- Chapter Five
- Eastern Europe and the Planned Economy
- p. 131
- The Strategy of Central Planning
- p. 133
- Problems of Central Planning
- p. 142
- Partial Reforms
- p. 146
- Planning Innovation
- p. 154
- Regional Integration
- p. 155
- The End of Reform
- p. 160
- Chapter Six
- The Integration of Western Europe
- p. 163
- Initial Steps
- p. 167
- EFTA and the British Dilemma
- p. 176
- Economic Effects
- p. 178
- The Common Agricultural Policy
- p. 182
- The Luxembourg Compromise
- p. 185
- Inklings of Monetary Integration
- p. 187
- The Common Market as an Established Fact
- p. 195
- Chapter Seven
- The Apex of the Golden Age
- p. 198
- The Heyday of Extensive Growth
- p. 199
- The Incorporation of the European Periphery
- p. 204
- Wage Explosion and Labor Conflict
- p. 216
- The End of the Golden Age
- p. 223
- Chapter Eight
- Mounting Payments Problems
- p. 225
- Italy's Crisis
- p. 226
- Britain's Problems
- p. 229
- The French Crisis and the German Response
- p. 238
- The Collapse of Bretton Woods
- p. 242
- The European Response
- p. 246
- Chapter Nine
- Declining Growth, Rising Rigidities
- p. 252
- The Productivity Slowdown
- p. 253
- Innovation
- p. 257
- Unemployment
- p. 263
- Stabilization in Britain
- p. 277
- The EMS Initiative
- p. 282
- The EMS in Operation
- p. 286
- The Legacy
- p. 290
- Chapter Ten
- The Collapse of Central Planning
- p. 294
- The Survival of Central Planning
- p. 296
- The Collapse of Communism
- p. 301
- Recession and Adjustment
- p. 303
- Dilemmas of Transition
- p. 308
- Economic Response
- p. 310
- German Reunification
- p. 318
- Normalization and Integration
- p. 328
- Chapter Eleven
- Integration and Adjustment
- p. 335
- The Single Market
- p. 336
- Integration in Practice
- p. 341
- From the Delors Report to the Maastricht Treaty
- p. 346
- The EMS Crisis
- p. 357
- The Transition to Monetary Union
- p. 366
- EMU and Its Implications
- p. 370
- Adjustment and Growth
- p. 377
- Chapter Twelve
- Europe at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
- p. 379
- Employment and Growth
- p. 381
- Reducing Unemployment
- p. 388
- Implications for European Unemployment
- p. 393
- Productivity Growth
- p. 398
- Eastern European Prospects and Western European Implications
- p. 406
- Economic Prospects
- p. 412
- Chapter Thirteen
- The Future of the European Model
- p. 414
- Battle of the Systems
- p. 419
- The Shadow of History
- p. 423
- Appendix: Sources of Growth
- p. 427
- References
- p. 433
- Index
- p. 461
