Part one economic growth: successes and problems I War and recovery, 1945 1 War losses 2 Positive effects of the war 3 The new economic ideology 4 The fight against post-war inflation 5 The dollar shortage and the Marshal plan II economic growth as the mainspring of government policy 1 The 'Silver Fifties' and the 'golden Sixties' 2 From unstable growth to staglation: the seventies III The malthusian dimension 1 The problem of 'Demographic transition' 2 World foord supplies 3 The exhaustion of minerals 4 The energy question IV Labour and capital as growth factors 1 Marginal explanation versus structural analysis 2 The flexibility of the supply of labour 3 The labour reserve as a basis for explaining growth 4 Growth and the employment of capital V Innovation as a growth factor 1 The explosion in industrial research 2 The 'Managerial revolution' 3 Innovation and growth: Convergence or divergence? VI The imperative of demand 1 The founding of the modern consumer society 2 The effects of income increases on domestic demand 3 Export as a dynamic demand factor Part two institucional framework VII The construction of the mixed economy 1 The lessons of the past 2 The mixed economy as economic system VIII The mixed economy under pressure 1 The change in the institutional environment 2 The failure of government planning and of central 3 Deeper causes for the failure of the mixed economy 4 The alternatives IX The liberalization of world trade after the second world war 1 The 'Pax americana' as cornerstone of the post-war liberal world economy 2 The european reaction: liberalization within defined blocs X Towards a new international economic order 1 The dismantling of the free-market world economy 2 The integration of the eastern bloc and the developing countries into the world economy 3 The proposals for reform XI The gold-dollar standand as world system, 1944 1 The legacy of american and british dirigisme, 1944 2 The american world vision 3 The contradictions of the gold-dollar standard , 1958 XII Towards a new international monetary system, 1971 1 The general establishment of floating exchange rates, 1971 2 The era of managed floating, 1973

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