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Postwar Economic Reconstruction and Lessons for the East Today

Edited by Rudiger Dornbusch, Wilhelm Nölling and Richard Layard
Reviewed by Richard N. Cooper
November/December 1993
Postwar Economic Reconstruction and Lessons for the East Today
Edited by Rudiger Dornbusch, Wilhelm Nölling and Richard Layard
The MIT Press
1993
249 pp.
$29.95
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A fascinating review, mostly by non-historians, of the post-1945 economic recovery in Britain, Finland, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, as well as an appraisal of the role of the Marshall Plan. Lessons for contemporary Eastern Europe are drawn mainly by a concluding panel, which finds few.

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