Planning in Cold War Europe : competition, cooperation, circulations (1950s-1970s) / edited by Michel Christian, Sandrine Kott, Ondřej Matějka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Christian, Michel, editor.

Kott, Sandrine, editor.

Matějka, Ondřej, 1978- editor.

Series:

Rethinking the Cold War (Berlin, Germany) ; v. 2.

Rethinking the Cold War ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Economic policy.

Europe.

Economic policy.

Cold War.

Physical Description:

viii, 375 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2018]

Summary:

The idea of planning economy and engineering social life has often been linked with Communist regimes' will of control. However, the persuasion that social and economic processes could and should be regulated was by no means limited to them. Intense debates on these issues developed already during the First World War in Europe and became globalized during the World Economic crisis. During the Cold War, such discussions fuelled competition between two models of economic and social organisation but they also revealed the convergences and complementarities between them. This ambiguity, so often overlooked in histories of the Cold War, represents the central issue of the book organized around three axes. First, it highlights how know-how on planning circulated globally and were exchanged by looking at international platforms and organizations. The volume then closely examines specificities of planning ideas and projects in the Communist and Capitalist World. Finally, it explores East-West channels generated by exchanges around issues of planning which functioned irrespective of the Iron Curtain and were exported in developing countries. The volume thus contributes to two fields undergoing a process of profound reassessment: the history of modernisation and of the Cold War.

Contents:

Part 1 Planning a New World after the War

Peace, Prosperity and Planning Postwar Trade, 1942-1948 p. 21 / Francine McKenzie

A Bridge between East and West? Gunnar Myrdal and the UN Economic Commission for Europe, 1947-1957 p. 45 / Daniel Stinsky

Part 2 High Modernism Planning

Mandatory Planning versus Indicative Planning? The Eastern Itinerary of French Planners (1960s-1970s) p. 71 / Isabelle Gouarné

International Research Planning across the Iron Curtain: East-Central European Social Scientists in the ISSC and Vienna Centre p. 97 / Katja Naumann

The Social Engineering Project. Exportation of Capitalist Management Culture to Eastern Europe (1950-1980) p. 123 / Sandrine Kott

Transferring Western Knowledge to a centrally planned Economy: Finland and the Scientific-Technical Cooperation with the Soviet Union p. 143 / Sari Autio-Sarasmo

Social Engineering and Alienation between East and West: Czech Christian-Marxist Dialogue in the 1960s from the National Level to the Global Arena p. 165 / Ondrej Matejka

The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and the failed Coordination of Planning in the Socialist Bloc in the 1960s p. 187 / Simon Godard

Part 3 Alternatives to Planning

Learning from Yugoslavia? Western Europe and the Myth of Self-Management (1968-1975) p. 213 / Benedetto Zaccaria

Managing Socialist industrialism: Czechoslovak Management Studies in the 1960s and 1970s p. 237 / Vitezslav Sommer

Ecosystems Research and Policy Planning: Revisiting the Budworm Project (1972-1980) at the IIASA p. 261 / Michael Hutter

"It Is not a Question of rigidly Planning Trade" UNCTAD and the Regulation of the International Trade in the 1970s p. 285 / Michel Christian

Planning the Future of World Markets: the OECD's Interfuturs Project p. 315 / Jenny Andersson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-375).

ISBN:

9783110526561

3110526565

OCLC:

1050756674