Political economy and international order in interwar Europe
Standard histories of European integration emphasize the immediate aftermath of World War II as the moment when the seeds of the European Union were first sown. However, the interwar years witnessed a flurry of concern with the reconstruction of the world order, generating arguments that cut across...
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Cham, Switzerland
Palgrave Macmillan
2021
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| Schriftenreihe: | Palgrave studies in the history of economic thought
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Standard histories of European integration emphasize the immediate aftermath of World War II as the moment when the seeds of the European Union were first sown. However, the interwar years witnessed a flurry of concern with the reconstruction of the world order, generating arguments that cut across the different social sciences, then plunged in a period of disciplinary soul-searching and feverish activism. Economics was no exception: several of the most prominent interwar economists, such as F. A. Hayek, Jan Tinbergen, Lionel Robbins, François Perroux, J. M. Keynes and Robert Triffin, contributed directly to larger public discussions on peace, order and stability. This edited volume combines these different strands of historical narrative into a unified framework, showing how political economy was integral to the interwar literature on international relations and, conversely, how economists were eager to incorporate international politics into their own concerns. The book brings together a group of scholars with varied disciplinary backgrounds, whose combined perspectives allow us to explore three analytical layers. The first part studies how different forms of economic knowledge, from economic programming to international finance, were used in the quest for a stable European order. The second part focuses on the existence of conflicting expectations about the role of social scientific knowledge, either as a source of technical solutions or as an input for enlightened public discussion. The third part illustrates how certain ideas and beliefs found concrete expression in specific institutional settings, which amplified their political leverage. The three parts are enclosed by an introductory essay, laying out the broad topics explored in the volume, and a substantial postscript tying all the historical threads together. 1. Introduction -- 2. Eucken’s Competition with Keynes: Beyond the Ordoliberal Allergy to the Keynesian Medicine -- 3. Third-Way Perspectives on Order in Interwar France: Personalism and the Political Economy of François Perroux -- 4. Corporatism and Planning in Monnet’s Idea of Europe -- 5. The Construction of an International Order in the Work of Jan Tinbergen -- 6. At the Origins of European Monetary Cooperation: Triffin, Bretton Woods, and the European Payments Union -- 7. Technocracy, Corporatism, and the Development of 'Economic Parliaments' in Interwar Europe -- 8. Pluralism, Tripartism and the Foundation of the International Labour Organization -- 9. Pluralism and Political Economy in Interwar Britain: G.D.H. Cole on Economic Planning -- 10. Ordoliberalism and the Rethinking of Liberal Rationality -- 11. Classical Liberalism, Non-Interventionism and the Origins of European Integration: Luigi Einaudi, Friedrich A. von Hayek, Wilhelm Röpke -- 12. Staving off the Protectionist Slide: Snowden and the Struggle to Keep Britain Open -- 13. The Formation of Research Institutes on Business Cycles in Europe in the Interwar Period: The "Kiel School" and (In)voluntary Internationalization -- 14. Divided by an Uncommon Language? The Oxford Institute of Statistics and British Academia (1935-1944) -- 15. The Intellectual Origins of European Integration. |
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| Beschreibung: | "Nevertheless, this question was very much present in February 2019, when we gathered at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, to present and discuss the first drafts of the chapters contained in this book during the workshop "Interwar Economics and the Intellectual Origins of European Integration", jointly hosted by UFMG's Jean Monnet Chair and the Research Group Power, Society and Globalization of the Institute of Social Sciences. Besides giving the contributors ample feedback on how to improve the arguments developed in their individual chapters, the workshop also reinforced our sense of the overlapping themes and concerns that connected our different research interests and perspectives." - Seite vi |
| Beschreibung: | xix, 434 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9783030471019 978-3-030-47101-9 |