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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (1): 39–75.
Published: 01 February 2023
... of European postwar reconstruction and the creation of a new world economic order. Given his deep knowledge and prewar experiences, Italy and France were his first areas of specialization, although Hirschman soon contributed to the analysis of the Marshall Plan, the shaping of the European Payments Union...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (S1): 29–52.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., and postwar reconstruction. Finally, the article discusses the role of Nicholas Kaldor, who had firsthand knowledge as a key member of the research team of highbrow economists chaired by John Kenneth Galbraith that at the end of the war studied the effects of Allied bombing on the German war economy. Kaldor's...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (S1): 235–258.
Published: 01 December 2024
...; and in the postwar period the focus was on plans for the reconstruction of France and then Europe more generally. All these periods generated demand for differentiated economic expertise in productivity. In 1946, the first French National Accounts were published alongside the establishment of the Commissariat...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (S1): 1–27.
Published: 01 December 2024
... and trade unions. The world war, together with related preparations and postwar reconstruction, created needs for government mobilization of resources, for control of inflation and for allocation of scarce resources by rationing, and for logistical, strategic, and tactical planning. The involvement...
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (4): 639–676.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Alexandre Chirat Abstract This article reconstructs the intellectual cross-fertilization between Adolf Berle Jr. (1895–1971) and John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) to account for their institutionalist challenge to “conventional economics” that revived political economy. It goes back to the origins...
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History of Political Economy (2018) 50 (3): 483–509.
Published: 01 September 2018
... in postwar years. Our reconstruction suggests that what really mattered with Phillips 1958 was that it provided a quantitative estimate of the unique level of the unemployment rate which was compatible with price stability. Even though the British Treasury and Phillips's London School of Economics colleague...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (S1): 294–304.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Mary S. Morgan Twentieth-century economics has been characterized as developing an engineering mentality, but this history suggests the importance of distinguishing between a design approach and a problem-solving approach. The former is to be found in economists tasked with reconstructing broken...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (S1): 270–293.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Ivan Boldyrev In the postwar USSR, there were a few scattered research groups engaged in research most closely resembling “Western” mainstream economics. Inspired by the new sciences of the artificial, these groups were able to make important contributions to various fields of economic theory...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (3): 393–416.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Gianluca Damiani Abstract This article offers a historical reconstruction of the birth and shaping of two research communities at the University of Rochester, that of economists and that of political scientists. Starting from the late 1950s, the arrival at Rochester of the renowned mathematical...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (S1): 283–304.
Published: 01 December 2024
... in the setting up of socialist five-year plans. In order to understand how Bettelheim became a planning doctor, the article reconstructs the formative period of his career and what role World War II played in this making, starting with his studies in political economy in France, his trip to the USSR in 1936...
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History of Political Economy (2020) 52 (4): 799–801.
Published: 01 August 2020
... Bronfenbrenner s involvement in the postwar reconstruction of the Japanese economy, together with a less-obviously related (but Book Reviews 801 interesting and scholarly) chapter on how the ideas of Tameyuki Amano (described as the first Japanese modern economist ) related to the earlier teachings of Sontoku...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (S1): 53–77.
Published: 01 December 2024
... could be harnessed to promote economic development, so prominent in his postwar development economics writings, were first tested with regard to the asymmetrical power relations between Nazi Germany and its weak neighbors and then with regard to the challenge of postwar European reconstruction. Also...
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History of Political Economy (2024) 56 (S1): 259–282.
Published: 01 December 2024
... economics belonged mainly to the statisticians who applied their tools to the field of economics. 1 With the end of the war, economists regained prominence and became the protagonists of postwar reconstruction, both intellectually, driving the debate on the relationship between market and state...
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History of Political Economy (1996) 28 (4): 705–707.
Published: 01 November 1996
..., Kaldor’s active participation is explained. Although The General Theory was written in 1936, it was not until the fifties that Keynesian policies began to be implemented. With the sustained increase in effective demand, due to postwar reconstruction in Europe and elsewhere, aided by Keynesian...
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History of Political Economy (2017) 49 (Supplement): 292–294.
Published: 01 December 2017
... and international history. Current interests include the history of development, the policies of postwar reconstruction in Eastern and Southern Europe, and the history of social sciences in the twentieth century, with a focus on the linkages between the history of ideas, economic and political history...
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History of Political Economy (2013) 45 (suppl_1): 38–67.
Published: 01 December 2013
... weaken postwar reconstruction. Such interpretations concentrated on the probable postwar disintegration of national unity (Cole 1915a, 1915b; Hobson 1916b), expected problematic postwar relations between Britain and the Empire (Cannan [1915] 1997), and the long-term impact of punitive taxation...
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History of Political Economy (1991) 23 (1): 61–78.
Published: 01 March 1991
... for postwar reconstruction and the resumption of the prewar modernization of Russia’s economy (123). Tuhan believed that a sound monetary system and an appropriate monetary policy were the sine qua non for the solution to these prob- lems. In his view the governments at that time were unable...
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History of Political Economy (1994) 26 (2): 341–345.
Published: 01 June 1994
... (Coombs, Crawford, Wilson, and others). There is little doubt that the generation of economists that lived through the arrival of Keynesianism in Australia, the war, and postwar reconstruction were predisposed toward interventionism and many flirted with more severe forms of planning. Of course...
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History of Political Economy (1972) 4 (1): 232–251.
Published: 01 March 1972
... of general collectivism. Oming to the desperate urgency of immediate postwar problems, the Italian economists were forced to adopt a more realistic stand- point. At that time, the need for planning seemed to prevail. Since reconstruction meant the postponement of consumaption...
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History of Political Economy (2006) 38 (2): 397–398.
Published: 01 June 2006
.... During the war the Labor prime minister, John Curtin, made Coombs director of rationing (in April 1942) and director-general of the Department of Postwar Reconstruction under Minister Ben Chiffl ey (in Novem- ber 1942). In the latter post Coombs helped to prepare the white paper, Full Employ- ment...