Planning in Cold War Europe - Competition, Cooperation, Circulations (1950s-1970s) (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	de Gruyter Oldenbourg
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Rethinking the Cold War
Release date:	October 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	Michel Christian • Sandrine Kott • Ondrej Matejka
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	383
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-052656-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > American history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
LSN:	3-11-052656-5
Barcode:	9783110526561

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