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"In The European Economy Since 1945, Barry Eichengreen . . . presents not only a comprehensive account of Europe's postwar economic experience but also an important analysis of capitalist development more generally. . . . [B]y demonstrating how institutions helpful in one era can be counterproductive in another, Eichengreen has important lessons about the future to teach both policy makers and publics."---Sheri Berman, New York Times Book Review"Eichengreen, even as he presents a lot of evidence, proves himself to be a master of exposition of the big story. And none could be bigger than the one contained in this book. History will judge it one of the most amazing achievements of the 20th century."---Huw Dixon, Times Higher Education Supplement"This is a superb overview of a half century of European economic development." (Choice)"An excellent book. . . . I have never read a better [book] on what the European economies have done right and subsequently did wrong. . . . Eichengreen . . . believes that Europe can turn things around, without chucking the basic model, but he doesn't for a moment deny that Europe faces an economic crisis relative to the American model."---Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution"A characteristic of the best histories is not just a good narrative but a compelling thread that runs through it. Barry Eichengreen's tour de force of postwar European history is that kind of book. . . . His thesis is that Europe's much maligned corporatist institutions played a significant role in achieving the postwar economic miracle, but that these institutions are insufficiently flexible to meet the 21st century's demands. . . . While there can be no such thing as a definitive history of Europe's postwar economy, Eichengreen at least comes close to providing a definitive history of European economic performance, a subject in which he excels. This is in itself no mean achievement."---Wolfgang Munchau, Financial Times"For both Americans who want to understand Europe's successes and failures, and for Europeans who want to know where their continent was right and where it has gone wrong, Mr. Eichengreen has provided an excellent summary."---Daniel Pudles, The Economist"This is a splendidly delivered analysis that helps us make sense of the reversal of growth fortunes experienced by the United States and Europe since the mid-1990s. . . . The European Economy is beautifully written and will be widely read."---Nicholas Crafts, Finance & Development"It is rare indeed for an academic book on the fundamentals of European economic growth to be widely read and circulated outside of academic circles, but if any book deserves to be, it surely is Barry Eichengreen's The European Economy Since 1945. The book is an eloquently written analysis of how the economic and governmental institutions that formerly undergirded European economic growth have become, since the early 1970s, severe impediments to its growth. It is a must-read."---Jurgen Reinhoudt, American.com"Many Eastern states have now joined the EU and made economic progress. Ambitions are high, but the author questions whether Europe can maintain its traditional communitarian ideals as global competition intensifies. Useful notes and bibliography." (Choice)"This book sets a new standard for surveys of the period, outclassing the essay collections that have concentrated on Western European experience and single-author narratives that have tended to make dreary reading. Eichengreen has produced an invigorating blend of synthesis and analysis that poses major questions about the nature and evolution of European economic growth, surveys economic arguments, and delivers sharp analysis and clear explanation for the major phases of economic growth and integration. . . . This is a landmark volume, by far the best available synthesis explaining European economic history since 1945, one ring pertinent comparison to U. S. experience that respect institutional differences and cultural preferences between countries. Its explanations and analysis are clear, concise, and engaging. Readers wishing more detail on the economic debates and national economic experiences red will appreciate the state-of-the-art bibliography. Don't miss it."---Kenneth Mouré, American Historical Review

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"Encompassing all of Europe, this magisterial book tells the story of how, during the second half of the twentieth century, high growth based on capital formation changed to low growth based on innovation. Eichengreen's masterful narrative never loses its focus while ranging far to integrate successfully international political contexts and informal economic conventions."--Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell UniversityA magisterial achievement. This book shows in detail how institutions and policies explain the miraculous postwar recovery and the subsequent economic growth of Western Europe, how they flavored the economic experience of different countries, and how they determined and shaped the nature of coordination and cooperation among the European economies. It is deeply learned, using a huge variety of sources and data, always informed about the facts and at the same time based on sound economic analysis."--Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University, author of The Gifts of Athena"Barry Eichengreen has written a powerful book that is central to any understanding of the differences and strains over economic issues between Europe and the United States. He examines the fit between social and political institutions and technology and innovation, and judiciously avoids both the depths of pessimism and the optimistic fantasies about Europe that are at the center of other and more facile analyses."--Harold James, Princeton University, author of A History of International Monetary Cooperation since 1945"The European Economy Since 1945 features a unique blend of modern economics, good history, and a deep understanding of the role of institutions in shaping economic success. Eichengreen's book is about the future of Europe. In the late 1970s, Japan was the model, and the United States looked doomed. Will we be saying the same thing in twenty years about the predictions of European doom and gloom so common today? To avoid that mistake we need to understand where Europe is coming from, and to think hard about the factors that will determine economic success in coming decades. This book is where we should start from."--Francesco Giavazzi, Bocconi University, Milan, and visiting professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World (Book 23)

Paperback: 520 pages

Publisher: Princeton University Press (July 21, 2008)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0691138486

ISBN-13: 978-0691138480

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6 x 1.2 x 9 inches

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I am rating the book 5 star because of its comprehensive review of a large subject, the European economy from 1945 until 2007. However, I want to warn anyone getting the Kindle version that the ebook version of this book was done poorly. It is a facsimile not a dynamic ebook. In other words, you cannot change the font size. You get a tall, narrow book page on your iPad.What is good about this book is that it is comprehensive, and, more importantly, the author highlights one of the prime differences between the US and EU. He describes this as "extensive" economics for the EU which means exploitation of off the shelf technologies. Whereas the US economy is based on "intensive" economics which means exploiting technical change. The author (while not from a scientific or engineering background) realizes the importance of technological change and the fact that it is discontinuous. One great factoid he mentions is that Russia had 200,000 computers when a western nation of similar size would have had 20 million. And the economic results show.Most economists are forever stuck in the statistics of the past without understanding the fundamentals (like technological change) that underly these statistics. The book is refreshing in that respect. However, the author (like nearly all economists) does not realize the importance of aggressive marketing and marketing research. Nevertheless, I would give this book a 5 star.What the book is good at is tracing the evolution of the EU and EZ since Europe was in ruins after WWII (Marshall Plan etc.) through the various European Community efforts and onto the Euro. Sadly, I think that a good portion of the Eurozone will go belly up because of their reliance on extensive economics (i.e., Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Spain, Italy; hopefully Ireland will survive).

It's a great book that reviews the european history since 1945 by country cases and by economic performance blocks. Fits great in my phD.

The book is very well written, but was definitely a heavy read. I am not that well schooled on economic and political theory, so I really didn't enjoy it. I would recommend Global Capitalism by Frieden instead.

I strongly recommend this book if you are interested in the subject. I found it to be easy to read and an excellent synthesis of modern scholarship on Europe's post-WWII economic growth. The bibliography is also excellent. I used the book to review for my comprehensive exam in European Political Economy and found it immeasurably useful--in fact it was by far the best thing I read to prepare.

The key point to understanding this book is that Prof. Eichengreen is a pretty convincing example of a market fundamentalist: he's a free market parody of an Evangelical Christian minister, especially preaching on the text of *II Chronicles* (1). Just as fundamentalist theology sees the vicissitudes of the Divided Kingdom as arising from the Israelites deviating from the revealed word of God (thereby bringing down the wrath of Israel's neighbors), Eichengreen sees Europe's problems arising from its departure from the revealed word of market fundamentalism. If this appeals to you, then please stop reading; you will like his approach and my negative review will only annoy you.For those of you not 100% motivated by more polemics to support your notions, let me summarize my problems with this book. It's not merely that the author has a strong point of view I disagree with: it's that he has nothing to say about the countervailing evidence. If you are only interested in the narrow metric of average per capita GDP, and don't care about living standards, financial sustainability, environmental issues, social justice, appropriate technology, and mental health, then I suppose Eichengreen's compulsive smugness about the US model of economic governance makes sense. If you care about the other issues listed above, then it doesn't.To be fair, he's merely touting the same theodicy as nearly all economists nowadays. Still, it's exasperating: a capitalist economy dominated by global oligopolies, whose managers are insulated from the consequences of poor judgment is not a market economy. It will excel chiefly in finding opportunities for its managers to plunder. That's consistent with the most orthodox neoclassical economics one could ask for, but mainstream economics has made a talisman of private ownership: agency problems, perverse incentives, and rentseeking monopolies are supposed to vanish as long as the shares are owned by unregulated, for-profit-only investors.As a source of information about Europe--my motivation for reading it--this is damaging not because Eichengreen bullhorns his biblical commentary on every page; it's that he completely truncates the scope of his narrative to avoid any piece of data that might undermine his dogma. For example, when France is stuck in the doldrums he blames the inability of the labor unions there to be sufficiently centralized to impose on their own membership a wage giveaway that would stimulate French exports (pp.104-105). Elsewhere (pp.122-124) he thunders at the horrid English workers, who utilized their superior bargaining position after the War to get higher wages--the curs!--thereby exposing the British to all manner of pear-shapédness. He grudgingly hints at the (far more consequential) problem of financing vital capital imports under a fixed exchange rate regime. This allows him to explain why Britain, which really had the most "free market" economy in postwar Europe, was actually a hotbed of radicalism, whereas Scandinavian countries were actually paragons of laissez-faire.The problem becomes more pronounced as the book wears on. Chapter five, on the Warsaw Pact economies, is curiously free of actual sources: most of the footnotes are actually just explanatory remarks and Eichengreen otherwise just regurgitates anti-Communist polemics. Policy makers in the Communist countries often faced dilemmas similar to those faced by severely underdeveloped countries everywhere; these dilemmas have no satisfactory solution, and capitalist policies have usually come to grief as well as socialist ones. Apparently he thinks under private ownership, these dilemmas magically vanish, and they don't (2).While he mercifully spends little time on Warsaw Pact countries, Eichengreen turns his fulminations to the falling away of the Europeans from the true path--how else to explain the 1970's decline in growth rates? He passes over the 1968 radicalism in silence, despite the fact this was mainly a revolt against the technocratic policies that had prevailed before (i.e., the ones of which he approves). The CAP(3) arouses his ire, despite the environmental and regional issues it was created to address; he never acknowledges these.In the final chapter, his discussion of Europe's overall conditions is stunningly out of touch. Ignoring the superior quality of life (reflected in nearly every social indicator), quality of outputs (reflected in the prestige of European products in world markets), and sustainability (reflected both in the Eurozone's superior environmental protection, its higher labor force participation rates, and its trade surplus), he speaks of the Eurozone as if it is stuck permanently in Dante's Purgatory, unable to reach the US-ish Paradise. This is more befitting the pages of The Onion than a non-satirical book about economic performance.UPDATE: Per objections of Mr. Martinez (see comments) I am changing the review because it had falsely implied that Eichengreen was actually a member of Rothbard's and Say's economic schools. The offending sentence was mis-aimed sarcasm.______________________________________________(1) *II Chronicles* is a book of the Old Testament that covers the period following the division of Israel into Judah and the Northern Kingdom. Sunday school teachers often claim the book illustrates how kings who ignored the good prophets' advice were punished by Jehovah, while the righteous kings flourished; but in fact, no such correlation is to be found in the book.(2) Often conservative economists will argue that bad outcomes in capitalist countries, such as massive informal sectors and disastrous farm policies, are actually caused by government policies. This is special pleading; in a capitalist country, the government mainly legislates to serve the business managerial class, whether its members admit it or not. Eichengreen seems naïvely proud of the Marshall Plan's ability to shape legislation in defiance of democratic procedures; he fails to understand that this further undermines the legitimacy of his overall thesis.(3) Common Agricultural Policy (of the European Union); established in 1963 and provides the basis forEurope's food and agricultural programs. See Céline Delayen, "The Common Agricultural Policy: a Brief Introduction" (PDF), Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (2007).

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