Explorations in OEEC history
Fifty years after it was launched, the Marshall Plan remains a major event of post World War II history. But what did it actually do for European reconstruction? To commemorate the opening of its historical archives to the public and their deposit at the European University Institute (EUI), the OECD...
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OECD Publishing
[2009]
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| Colección: | OECD historical series.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705631406719 |
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- Preface 9 Photo credits 10 Notes on Contributors 11 List of Acronyms 13 Chapter I. Exploring the OEEC’s Past: the Potentials and the Sources by Wendy Asbeek Brusse and Richard T. Griffiths 15 Chapter II. The Marshall Plan and the Origin of the OEEC by Daniel Barbezat 33 Chapter III. Austria: A Special Case in European Economic Integration? by Fritz Weber 49 Chapter IV. Ireland and the Marshall Plan: A Cargo Cult in the North Atlantic? by Brian Girvin 61 Chapter V. Norway, the United States and the Marshall Plan, 1947-52 by Helge Pharo 73 Chapter VI. A Marshall Plan for Africa? The Overseas Territories Committee and the Origins of European Co-operation in Africa by Rik Schreurs 87 Chapter VII. The Marshall Plan and the Politics of Growth by David W. Ellwood 99 Chapter VIII. The European Productivity Agency, 1953-1961 by Bent Boel 113 Chapter IX. Liberalising Intra-European Trade by Wendy Asbeek Brusse 123 Chapter X. Free but Protected? Italy and the Liberalisation of Foreign Trade in the 1950s by Francesca Fauri 139 Chapter XI. Integration at Cross-currents. The OEEC and the European Coal and Steel Community, 1952-56 by Johnny Laursen 149 Chapter XII. Denmark and the OEEC by Vibeke Sørensen 159 Chapter XIII. From Bridge Building to West European Economic Integration: Sweden in the OEEC by Michael af Malmborg 169 Chapter XIV. ‘‘It is only the provisional that lasts’’: The European Payments Union by Monika Dickhaus 183 Chapter XV. A Creditor’s Dreams and Nightmares: Benelux and the Foundation of the European Payments Union by Erik Bloemen 201 Chapter XVI. The United States, Convertibility, and the Reform of the European Payments Union in 1954: A View on the Debate in the Eisenhower Administration by Corso Paolo Boccia 209 Chapter XVII. The French Crisis and the Dissolution of the European Payments Union, 1956-1958 by Paul M. Pitman 219 Chapter XVIII. ‘‘An Act of Creative Leadership’’: The End of the OEEC and the Birth of the OECD by Richard T. Griffiths 235 Annexes: -1. The Marshall Plan Speech, Address by General George C. Marshall, US Secretary of State, Harvard University, 5 June 1947 257 -2. Chronology 261 -3. Name Index 277
