Economists in the cold war : how a handful of economists fought the battle of ideas /
Economists in the Cold War is an account of the economic drivers and outcomes of the Cold War told through the stories of seven international economists who were all closely involved in theory and policy in the period 1945-1973. For them, the Cold War was a battle of economic ideas, a fight between...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Images
- List of Tables
- Prologue: Stolknovenie versus Potsdame (Encounter in Potsdam)
- Acknowledgements
- Recent Books by Alan Bollard
- Epigraph
- 1. Rebuilding the World: Harry Dexter White and New Dealers
- Early Days of Harry Dexter White
- President Roosevelt and Wartime Ideas
- Cold War of Ideas: White's US Hegemony versus Keynes's Internationalism
- Bretton Woods Negotiations
- Post-War Germany and the Morgenthau-White Plan
- Truman and the US Domestic Economy
- Post-War International Balance of Power
- Europe and the Marshall Plan
- White and the Economists' Ring
- Strange Case of Harry Dexter White
- Appendix: Economists as Soviet Sympathizers and Spies
- Endnotes
- 2. Making Central Planning Work: Oskar Lange and Marxist-Leninists
- Oskar Lange's World
- Lange in America
- The Polish Question
- Cold War of Ideas: Lange's Central Planning versus Hayek's Markets
- Soviet and Eastern Bloc Economies
- Lange and Poland Post-War
- Polish Thaw
- Oskar Lange's Final Years
- Endnotes
- 3. The Cold War Hardens: John von Neumann and Cold War Warriors
- World of John von Neumann
- Manhattan Project, NATO, and US Military Spending
- Anti-Communism and Soviets
- Eisenhower Era and Defence Spending
- How Countries Compete: Game Theory
- Operations Research in the Cold War
- Cold War of Ideas: Von Neumann's Capital Model versus Kantorovich's Labour Value
- Dynamic Models and Computing Developments
- Last Days of John von Neumann
- Endnotes
- 4. A Continental Middle Way: Ludwig Erhard and Social Market Economists
- Ludwig Erhard's Early Days
- Early Post-War Germany
- Erhard Reforms
- Berlin Blockade
- Minister of Economy
- Germany's Eastern Bloc and Western Bloc
- Social Market Economy and German Recovery.
- Cold War of Ideas: Erhard's Social Market versus Monnet's Common Market
- Coal and Steel Community and European Economic Community
- European Decolonization and French Struggles
- Chancellorship and Decline of Ludwig Erhard
- Endnotes
- 5. Seeking Growth and Stability: Joan Robinson and Post-Keynesians
- Joan Robinson's World
- Robinson, Marxism, and War
- Post-War UK Economic Problems, Welfare, and Growth
- Cold War of Ideas: Robinson's Capital versus Samuelson's Capitalism
- Alternative Textbook
- UK Economy in the 1950s-1960s
- Khrushchev and the Soviet Union
- Hungary, the Third World, and USSR Post-Khrushchev
- Robinson in Emerging China
- Great Leap Forward and Sino-Soviet Split
- Nuclear Disarmament and Joan Robinson's Later Life
- Endnotes
- 6. East Asian Growth: Saburo Okita and Flying Geese Economists
- Saburo Okita's Early Years and Wartime
- Japanese Economy under Occupation
- Early Economic Recovery
- Korean War, MITI, and International Relations
- Economic Planning and Income Doubling
- East Asian Region's Economies
- Cold War of Ideas: Okita's Flying Geese versus Zhou's Caged Bird
- Flying Geese Formation
- Saburo Okita's Later Career
- Endnotes
- 7. North-South Divide: Raul Prebisch and Development Economists
- Raul Prebisch's Early Life
- Prebisch at Central Bank and ECLA
- Birth of Development Economics
- Problems at ECLA
- Latins and the Non-Aligned Movement
- Cold War of Ideas: Prebisch's Dependency Theory versus Rostow's Anti-Communist Manifesto
- UNCTADs I and II
- US Economy in the 1960s
- Raul Prebisch's Later Life
- Endnotes
- 8. Epilogue: El Encuentro en Santiago (Encounter in Santiago)
- John von Neumann's Computing Architecture
- Saburo Okita's Development Aid Mission
- Ludwig Erhard's Social Market Economy
- Harry Dexter White's US Dollar Hegemony.
- Joan Robinson's Income Distribution Ideas
- Oskar Lange's Efficiency Mechanism
- Raul Prebisch's Industrial Development Path
- Salvador Allende's Planned Socialist Economy
- Augusto Pinochet's Capitalist Market Economy
- Endnotes
- Appendix: Timeline and Data
- Bibliography
- Index.