Preface; 1. Post-war growth: an overview Nicholas Crafts and Gianni Toniolo; 2. Institutions and economic growth: Europe after World War II Barry Eichengreen: 3. The varieties of Eurosclerosis: the rise and decline of nations since 1982 Mancur Olson; 4. Why the 1950s and not the 1920s? Olsonian and non-Olsonian interpretations of two decades of German economic history Karl-Heinz PaquÉ; 5. Convergence, competitiveness and the exchange rate Andrea Boltho; 6. British economic growth since 1945: relative economic decline ... and Renaissance? Charles Bean and Nicholas Crafts; 7. Economic growth in postwar Belgium Isabelle Cassiers, Philippe de VillÉ and Peter M. Solar; 8. France 1945-92 Pierre Sicsic and Charles Wyplosz; 9. Economic growth and the Swedish model Magnus Henrekson, Lars Jonung and Joakim Stymna; 10. Characteristics of economic growth in the Netherlands during the postwar period Bart van Ark, Jakob de Haan and Herman J. de Jong; 11. Portuguese postwar growth: a global approach JoÃo L. CÉsar das Neves; 12. Growth and macroeconomic performance in Spain, 1939-93 Leandro Prados de la Escosura and Jorge C. Sanz; 13. Irish economic growth, 1945-88 Cormac Ó GrÁda and Kevin O'Rourke; 14. Italy Nicola Rossi and Gianni Toniolo; 15. West German growth and institutions, 1945-90 Wendy Carlin; 16. An exercise in futility: East German economic growth and decline, 1945-89 Albrecht O. Ritschl; 17. Postwar growth in the Danish economy Peder J. Pedersen; 18. Reflections on the country studies Nicholas Crafts and Gianni Toniolo; Index.
This book provides a genuinely comparative picture of economic growth in Europe after 1945.
'This is an awesome textbook of profound and rigorous economic analysis which will prove invaluable to generations of economics students - and other informed readers besides …'. The Times Higher Education Supplement
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