Overview
- Examines the interwar origins of concepts and debates that played a formative role in the building of European integration
- Combines the historical narratives of interwar international relations and political economy into a unified framework
- Provides a new framework for interpreting the institutional settlement that emerged after WWII in response to the interwar crisis
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought (PHET)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Economics and Order
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Democracy and Technocracy
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The Power of Ideas
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About this book
Standard histories of European integration emphasize the immediate aftermath of World War II as the moment when the seeds of the European Union were first sown. However, the interwar years witnessed a flurry of concern with the reconstruction of the world order, generating arguments that cut across the different social sciences, then plunged in a period of disciplinary soul-searching and feverish activism. Economics was no exception: several of the most prominent interwar economists, such as F. A. Hayek, Jan Tinbergen, Lionel Robbins, François Perroux, J. M. Keynes and Robert Triffin, contributed directly to larger public discussions on peace, order and stability.
This edited volume combines these different strands of historical narrative into a unified framework, showing how political economy was integral to the interwar literature on international relations and, conversely, how economists were eager to incorporate international politics into their own concerns. The book brings together a group of scholars with varied disciplinary backgrounds, whose combined perspectives allow us to explore three analytical layers. The first part studies how different forms of economic knowledge, from economic programming to international finance, were used in the quest for a stable European order. The second part focuses on the existence of conflicting expectations about the role of social scientific knowledge, either as a source of technical solutions or as an input for enlightened public discussion. The third part illustrates how certain ideas and beliefs found concrete expression in specific institutional settings, which amplified their political leverage. The three parts are enclosed by an introductory essay, laying out the broad topics explored in the volume, and a substantial postscript tying all the historical threads together.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Alexandre Mendes Cunha is Associate Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He specializes in the international diffusion of economic ideas throughout history.
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak is Associate Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He studies the historical interplay between social, political, and economic ideas.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Political Economy and International Order in Interwar Europe
Editors: Alexandre M. Cunha, Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47102-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47101-9Published: 27 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47104-0Published: 27 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47102-6Published: 26 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-6578
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6586
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 434
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Economic History, Intellectual Studies, International Political Economy, Political Economy/Economic Systems, European History