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. Global Cold War seen from the perspective of social and economic planning. Analysis of circulation of ideas irrespective of the Iron Curtain.
Fresh look at the transnational history of international organizations in the bi-polar world.
Author(s): Michel Christian , Sandrine Kott and Ondrej Matejka
Series: Rethinking The Cold War | 2
Edition: 1
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Year: 2018
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 385
Tags: Kalter Krieg; Internationale Organisation; Europe: Economy: Planning Economy
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Table of Contents
Planning in Cold War Europe: Introduction
Part 1: Planning a New World after the War
Peace, Prosperity and Planning Postwar Trade, 1942–1948
A Bridge between East and West? Gunnar Myrdal and the UN Economic Commission for Europe, 1947–1957
Part 2: High Modernism Planning
Mandatory Planning versus Indicative Planning? The Eastern Itinerary of French Planners (1960s-1970s)
International Research Planning across the Iron Curtain: East-Central European Social Scientists in the ISSC and Vienna Centre
The Social Engineering Project. Exportation of Capitalist Management Culture to Eastern Europe (1950–1980)
Transferring Western Knowledge to a centrally planned Economy: Finland and the Scientific-Technical Cooperation with the Soviet Union
Social Engineering and Alienation between East and West: Czech Christian-Marxist Dialogue in the 1960s from the National Level to the Global Arena
The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and the failed Coordination of Planning in the Socialist Bloc in the 1960s
Part 3: Alternatives to Planning
Learning from Yugoslavia? Western Europe and the Myth of Self-Management (1968–1975)
Managing Socialist Industrialism: Czechoslovak Management Studies in the 1960s and 1970s
Ecosystems Research and Policy Planning: Revisiting the Budworm Project (1972–1980) at the IIASA
“It is not a Question of rigidly Planning Trade” UNCTAD and the Regulation of the International Trade in the 1970s
Planning the Future of World Markets: the OECD’s Interfuturs Project
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