Tariffs, trade, and European integration, 1947-1957
Subtitle: from study group to Common Market
By: Wendy Asbeek Brusse.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute series on diplomatic and economic history
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: European Economic Community -- History.; Tariff -- Europe -- History.; Europe -- Commercial policy -- History.; Europe -- Economic integration -- History -- 20th century.
Description: Wendy Asbeek Brusse provides us with the first comprehensive, multicountry reconstruction of the commercial-policy origins of European integration. Based on archival sources of six countries, Tariffs, Trade and European Integration, 1947-1957 shows that the creation of the Common Market can only be fully understood if one takes into account its economic underpinning.

Immediately after the war, European countries were continuously searching for economic stability, welfare and commercial disarmament, but existing international markets could not satisfy their aspirations. Only by reaching for novel solutions did they bring the trade wars of the 1930s finally to an end and lay the foundation for European Union.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-309) and index.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--European University Institute, Florence, 1991.