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PLANNING IN COLD WAR EUROPE KARTONIERT (TB)

The idea of planning economy and engineering social life has often been linked with Communist
regimes' will of control. However  the persuasion that social and economic processes could and
should be regulated was by no means limited to them. Intense debates on these issues developed
already during the First World War in Europe and became globalized during the World Economic
crisis. During the Cold War  such discussions fuelled competition between two models of
economic and social organisation but they also revealed the convergences and complementarities
between them. This ambiguity  so often overlooked in histories of the Cold War  represents the
central issue of the book organized around three axes. First  it highlights how know-how on
planning circulated globally and were exchanged by looking at international platforms and
organizations. The volume then closely examines specificities of planning ideas and projects in
the Communist and Capitalist World. Finally  it explores East-West channels generated by
exchanges around issues of planning which functioned irrespective of the Iron Curtain and were
exported in developing countries. The volume thus contributes to two fields undergoing a
process of profound reassessment: the history of modernisation and of the Cold War.

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