Planning in Cold War Europe: Competition, Cooperation, Circulations (1950s-1970s) (Rethinking the Cold War, 2)

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. Global Cold War seen from the perspective of social and economic planning. Analysis of circulation of ideas irrespective of the Iron Curtain. Fresh look at the transnational history of international organizations in the bi-polar world. Frontmatter --Acknowledgements --Table of Contents --Planning in Cold War Europe: Introduction /Michel, Christian / Kott, Sandrine / Matějka, Ondřej --Part 1: Planning a New World after the War --Peace, Prosperity and Planning Postwar Trade, 1942-1948 /McKenzie, Francine --A Bridge between East and West? Gunnar Myrdal and the UN Economic Commission for Europe, 1947-1957 /Stinsky, Daniel --Part 2: High Modernism Planning --Mandatory Planning versus Indicative Planning? The Eastern Itinerary of French Planners (1960s-1970s) /Gouarné, Isabelle --International Research Planning across the Iron Curtain: East-Central European Social Scientists in the ISSC and Vienna Centre /Naumann, Katja --The Social Engineering Project. Exportation of Capitalist Management Culture to Eastern Europe (1950-1980) /Kott, Sandrine --Transferring Western Knowledge to a centrally planned Economy: Finland and the Scientific-Technical Cooperation with the Soviet Union /Autio-Sarasmo, Sari --Social Engineering and Alienation between East and West: Czech Christian-Marxist Dialogue in the 1960s from the National Level to the Global Arena /Matějka, Ondřej --The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and the failed Coordination of Planning in the Socialist Bloc in the 1960s /Godard, Simon --Part 3: Alternatives to Planning --Learning from Yugoslavia? Western Europe and the Myth of Self-Management (1968-1975) /Zaccaria, Benedetto --Managing Socialist Industrialism: Czechoslovak Management Studies in the 1960s and 1970s /Sommer, Vítězslav --Ecosystems Research and Policy Planning: Revisiting the Budworm Project (1972-1980) at the IIASA /Hutter, Michael --"It is not a Question of rigidly Planning Trade" UNCTAD and the Regulation of the International Trade in the 1970s /Christian, Michel --Planning the Future of World Markets: the OECD's Interfuturs Project /Andersson, Jenny --Works Cited Cover Half title Series title Title Copyright Acknowledgements Table of Contents Planning in Cold War Europe: Introduction Part 1: Planning a New World after the War Peace, Prosperity and Planning Postwar Trade, 1942–1948 A Bridge between East and West? Gunnar Myrdal and the UN Economic Commission for Europe, 1947–1957 Part 2: High Modernism Planning Mandatory Planning versus Indicative Planning? The Eastern Itinerary of French Planners (1960s-1970s) International Research Planning across the Iron Curtain: East-Central European Social Scientists in the ISSC and Vienna Centre The Social Engineering Project. Exportation of Capitalist Management Culture to Eastern Europe (1950–1980) Transferring Western Knowledge to a centrally planned Economy: Finland and the Scientific-Technical Cooperation with the Soviet Union Social Engineering and Alienation between East and West: Czech Christian-Marxist Dialogue in the 1960s from the National Level to the Global Arena The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and the failed Coordination of Planning in the Socialist Bloc in the 1960s Part 3: Alternatives to Planning Learning from Yugoslavia? Western Europe and the Myth of Self-Management (1968–1975) Managing Socialist Industrialism: Czechoslovak Management Studies in the 1960s and 1970s Ecosystems Research and Policy Planning: Revisiting the Budworm Project (1972–1980) at the IIASA “It is not a Question of rigidly Planning Trade” UNCTAD and the Regulation of the International Trade in the 1970s Planning the Future of World Markets: the OECD’s Interfuturs Project Works Cited

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.

This volume aims at enlarging our understanding of planning, engineering and more generally regulation ideas by looking at possible forms of mutual interest, circulation of idea and models in a “pan’european” perspective. Contributions will emphasize the role played by actors from both sides of Europe at the micro- as well as macro-level and will highlight the role played by international organizations as fora and platforms where ideas and know-how were exchanged. The volume will also look at development projects in the developing countries as a field where European conceptions of planned development were competing but also converging especially in the eyes of the countries who benefited from these policies. The peer-reviewed series offers books that illuminate the multifaceted history of the Cold War in both its European and Global dimensions, across and beyond the Iron Curtain. It focuses on the interactions, interdependencies and co-operation of Eastern state socialist countries (and their citizens) with Western capitalist, Latin American, African and non-aligned states (and their citizens), as well as with China