Explorations in OEEC History [electronic resource] /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,issuing body.
Griffiths, Richard T.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2009.
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 invited a group of EUI historians to analyse the role played by the Marshall Plan and the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC) in the economic recovery of Europe. This book examines the major moments punctuating OEEC history from the original offer of Marshall Aid in 1947 to the decision to create the OECD in 1960. It offers a history of the European economic reconstruction and contributes to discussions on models of co-operation favouring economic development, trade liberalisation and world economic integration.
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
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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 invited a group of EUI historians to analyse the role played by the Marshall Plan and the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC) in the economic recovery of Europe. This book examines the major moments punctuating OEEC history from the original offer of Marshall Aid in 1947 to the decision to create the OECD in 1960. It offers a history of the European economic reconstruction and contributes to discussions on models of co-operation favouring economic development, trade liberalisation and world economic integration.
Organisation for European Economic Co-operation.
Marshall Plan.
Reconstruction (1939-1951)