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Postwar Economic Reconstruction and Lessons for the East Today

Postwar Economic Reconstruction and Lessons for the East Today

Edited by Rudiger Dornbusch, Wilhelm Nölling and Richard Lay

The MIT Press, 1993, 249 pp.

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.