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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.

Table of Contents:

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgements
• Table of Contents
• Planning in Cold War Europe: Introduction / Michel, Christian / Kott, Sandrine / Matějka, Ondřej
• Part 1: Planning a New World after the War
• Peace, Prosperity and Planning Postwar Trade, 1942-1948 / McKenzie, Francine
• A Bridge between East and West? Gunnar Myrdal and the UN Economic Commission for Europe, 1947-1957 / Stinsky, Daniel
• Part 2: High Modernism Planning
• Mandatory Planning versus Indicative Planning? The Eastern Itinerary of French Planners (1960s-1970s) / Gouarné, Isabelle
• International Research Planning across the Iron Curtain: East-Central European Social Scientists in the ISSC and Vienna Centre / Naumann, Katja
• The Social Engineering Project. Exportation of Capitalist Management Culture to Eastern Europe (1950-1980) / Kott, Sandrine
• Transferring Western Knowledge to a centrally planned Economy: Finland and the Scientific-Technical Cooperation with the Soviet Union / Autio-Sarasmo, Sari
• Social Engineering and Alienation between East and West: Czech Christian-Marxist Dialogue in the 1960s from the National Level to the Global Arena / Matějka, Ondřej
• The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and the failed Coordination of Planning in the Socialist Bloc in the 1960s / Godard, Simon
• Part 3: Alternatives to Planning
• Learning from Yugoslavia? Western Europe and the Myth of Self-Management (1968-1975) / Zaccaria, Benedetto
• Managing Socialist Industrialism: Czechoslovak Management Studies in the 1960s and 1970s / Sommer, Vítězslav
• Ecosystems Research and Policy Planning: Revisiting the Budworm Project (1972-1980) at the IIASA / Hutter, Michael
• "It is not a Question of rigidly Planning Trade" UNCTAD and the Regulation of the International Trade in the 1970s / Christian, Michel
• Planning the Future of World Markets: the OECD's Interfuturs Project / Andersson, Jenny

• Works Cited

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Contributors:

Christian, Michel , editor

Kott, Sandrine , editor

Matejka, Ondrej , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Related Series:

Rethinking the Cold War; [volume] 2

Subjects:

Cold War

Europe — Economic policy

Cold War (1945-1989)

1945-1989

Economic policy

Europe

General Notes:

Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HC240 .P536 2018eb

ISBNs:

9783110534696
311053469X

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1515/9783110534696

OCLC Numbers:

1059281002