What brought down the Soviet Union? From some perspectives the answers seem obvious, even teleological—communism was simply destined to fail. When Yakov Feygin studied the question, he came to another conclusion: at least one crucial factor was a deep contradiction within the Soviet political...

Chapter 1: Soviet Union : The Ambiguous Case of National -- Chapter 2: East Germany : Negotiating Conformity and Innovation -- Chapter 3:Czechoslovakia : Opening the Doors to the West -- Chapter 4: Hungary : Surfing Among Ice Floes -- Chapter 5: Poland : Economic History Debate Across the Iron...

This paper quantifies the positive and normative impact of Bretton Woods capital controls on global and regional economic activity. A three-region DSGE capital flows accounting framework consisting of the U.S., Western Europe, and the Rest of the World (ROW) is developed to quantify capital...

This volume is an account of the economic drivers and outcomes of the Cold War, told through the stories of seven international economists, who were all closely involved in theory and policy in the period 1945-73. For them, the Cold War was a battle of economic ideas, a fight between central...

Das "ewige Eis" am Nordpol schmilzt und arktische Räume werden immer leichter und länger zugänglich. Auf dem Land können die reichen Bodenschätze einfacher abgebaut werden und der Schiffsverkehr im Nordpolarmeer nimmt zu. Die Arktis verliert dabei zunehmend ihren Ausnahmecharakter als Ort...

Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal economics sweep across the world in the late twentieth century? In this pathbreaking study, Fritz Bartel argues that the answer to these questions is one and the same. The Cold War began as a competition between capitalist and...

Die österreichische EU-Ratspräsidentschaft, die mit 1. Juli 2018 begann, steht unter dem Stern der Wie-derbelebung seiner Brückenfunktion zwischen Ost und West; denn während sich die Länder in Mittel-, Ost- und Südosteuropa (MOSOEL) wirtschaftlich Westeuropa annähern, scheinen sich...

1. Why and How to Study Trade Union Cooperation in Europe? -- 2. Patterns of transnational trade union cooperation in Europe -- 3. The European Trade Union Movement and the Issue of Statutory Minimum Wages -- 4. Revision of the EU Posting of Workers Directive, Social Dumping and Trade Unions’...

"Arms, Revenue, and Entitlements: U.S. Deficits in the Cold War, 1945-1991 explores how defense, tax, and entitlement policies caused the U.S. government to become deficit normative during the Cold War era, arguing that only a comprehensive program can rein in deficits in the twenty-first century."

Container liner shipping, shipping network, network design, network structure, ship deployment. - This thesis studies network design in container liner shipping by concentrating on four research questions: - How were operational patterns deployed in route design? - How was container shipping...

Geopolitical risks and organizational challenges -- Swiss and (Anglo)-Dutch multinationals and organizational change in the era of total war / Takafumi Kurosawa and Ben Wubs -- Municipalisation, war, tax and nationalisation : imperial continental gas association in an era of turmoil, 1824-1987 /...

Dieser Kurzbeitrag erläutert die politische Funktion wirtschaftlicher Zusammenarbeit in Krisenzeiten. Das Kernargument lautet: Wirtschaftliche Kooperation ist ein hohes Gut. Sie schafft wechselseitige Abhängigkeiten - und stiftet Gemeinsamkeiten. Das diszipliniert im Konflikt. Den Primat der...

Debates over foreign aid can seem strangely innocent of history. Economists argue about effectiveness and measurement--how to make aid work. Meanwhile, critics in donor countries bemoan what they see as money wasted on corrupt tycoons or unworthy recipients. What most ignore is the essentially...

This book is among the first to systematically analyze and discuss the Chinese government's 'One Belt, One Road' initiative to promote infrastructure investment and economic development, bringing together a diverse range of scholars from China, Russia, and Eastern Europe. The book assembles a...

Geopolitical risks and organizational challenges -- Swiss and (Anglo)-Dutch multinationals and organizational change in the era of total war / Takafumi Kurosawa and Ben Wubs -- Municipalisation, war, tax and nationalisation : imperial continental gas association in an era of turmoil, 1824-1987 /...

"In Asia the 1950s were dominated by political decolonization and the emergence of the Cold War System, and newly independent countries were able to utilize the transformed balance of power for their own economic development through economic and strategic aid programmes. This book examines the...

Interessante Denkanstöße für die Entwicklung eines gesamteuropäischen Wirtschaftsraums einschließlich Russlands, der sich bis an die Grenzen Chinas ausdehnt, und die Expansion des Euro als eine der führenden Weltwährungen. (Reinhild Khan)

This paper exploits the division of Germany after the Second World War and the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990 as a natural experiment to provide evidence of the importance of market access for economic development. In line with a standard new economic geography model, we find...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue: Preparing for the Presidency -- PART 1 MACRO-LEVEL ECONOMIC POLICIES -- 1 Setting a Consistent Course, 1953-1956 -- 2 Economic Policy in Good Times, 1955-1957 -- 3 Narrowing the Course, 1957-1961 -- PART 2 MICROECONOMIC POLICIES -- 4 Agriculture: A Tough...

Introduction: the struggle over Cold War rationality -- Enlightenment reason, Cold War rationality, and the rule of rules -- The bounded rationality of Cold War operations research -- Saving the planet from nuclear weapons and the human mind -- "The situation" in the Cold War behavioral sciences...