Hirschman / Alacevich / Asso The Postwar Economic Order

National Reconstruction and International Cooperation
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55369-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Years before he became renowned as one of the most original social scientists of the twentieth century, Albert O. Hirschman played an active role in the rebuilding of postwar Europe. This book presents a collection of his reports about economic policy, early efforts at intra-European cooperation, and the new U.S.-centered international order.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hirschman, Albert O.

Alacevich, Michele

Asso, Pier Francesco

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors’ Acknowledgments and a Note on the Texts
Introduction: Albert O. Hirschman at the Federal Reserve, 1946–1952, by Michele Alacevich and Pier Francesco Asso
Part I. Patterns of European Reconstruction: Macroeconomic Challenges
1. Higher Interest Rates and the Credit Shortage in France
2. Exchange Control in Italy—I
3. Exchange Control in Italy—II
4. France and Italy: Patterns of Reconstruction
5. Public Finance, Money Markets, and Inflation in France
6. Credit Restrictions and Deflation in Italy
Part II. The Marshall Plan and the End of Discrimination
7. Trade Structure of the “Marshall Plan Countries”
8. Inflation and Balance-of-Payments Deficit
9. Dollar Shortage and Discrimination
10. The OEEC Interim Report on the European Recovery Program—A Summary
11. The U.S. Recession and the Dollar Position of the OEEC Countries
12. The New Intra-European Payments Scheme
Part III. European Integration and the Way Back to Multilateralism
13. Proposal for a European Monetary Authority
14. Liberalization of the ECA Dollar: Introductory Note
15. European Payments Union—A Possible Basis for Agreement
16. Multilateralism and European Integration
17. The European Payments Union
18. Size and Distribution of the Public Debt in Selected Countries
19. The Long-Run Effect of Development and Industrialization Abroad on the United States
Part IV. The Economic Consequences of U.S. Hegemony
20. The Long-Run Effect of Development and Industrialization Abroad on the United States
21. The Influence of U.S. Economic Conditions on Foreign Countries (with Robert Solomon)
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Albert O. Hirschman (1915–2012) was an acclaimed and influential economist and social scientist. He taught at Columbia University and Harvard University, and he was professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His best-known books include National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade (1945), The Strategy of Economic Development (1958), Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States (1970), The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph (1977), Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action (1982), and The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy (1991).

Michele Alacevich is professor of the history of economics and economic history at the University of Bologna. He is the author of Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography (Columbia, 2021) and The Political Economy of the World Bank: The Early Years (2009), as well as coauthor of Inequality: A Short History (2018).

Pier Francesco Asso is professor of the history of economic thought and international political economy at the University of Palermo. He is the author of several books in Italian on topics such as the history of banking and twentieth-century economic thought.