During the 30s in France the debate on the "third way" was particularly intense. The efforts to develop an alternative to liberal capitalism and socialism involved two main different solutions: planning and corporatism that often overlapped; moreover both of them were imbued with some elements of...

This chapter explores how the economic and political difficulties of the interwar period and the immediate postwar era forced politicians, economists, and institutions to rethink the European economic and monetary system. Triffin was a key figure in that dynamic and quick to spot the fundamental...

Theoretical and empirical research on business cycles became the dominant theme in economics in the interwar period. The foundation of the Harvard Committee in 1917 and the NBER in 1920 in the USA stimulated the foundation of similar research institutions in many European countries from the...