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

London ; New York : Routledge, 1990.

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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.

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Print version: Government and economies in the postwar world. London ; New York : Routledge, 1990

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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.