The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and the failed Coordination of Planning in the Socialist Bloc in the 1960s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Planning in Cold War Europe: Introduction 1
5. Part 1: Planning a New World after the War
6. Peace, Prosperity and Planning Postwar Trade, 1942–1948 21
7. A Bridge between East and West? Gunnar Myrdal and the UN Economic Commission for Europe, 1947–1957 45
8. Part 2: High Modernism Planning
9. Mandatory Planning versus Indicative Planning? The Eastern Itinerary of French Planners (1960s-1970s) 71
10. International Research Planning across the Iron Curtain: East-Central European Social Scientists in the ISSC and Vienna Centre 97
11. The Social Engineering Project. Exportation of Capitalist Management Culture to Eastern Europe (1950–1980) 123
12. Transferring Western Knowledge to a centrally planned Economy: Finland and the Scientific-Technical Cooperation with the Soviet Union 143
13. Social Engineering and Alienation between East and West: Czech Christian-Marxist Dialogue in the 1960s from the National Level to the Global Arena 165
14. The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and the failed Coordination of Planning in the Socialist Bloc in the 1960s 187
15. Part 3: Alternatives to Planning
16. Learning from Yugoslavia? Western Europe and the Myth of Self-Management (1968–1975) 213
17. Managing Socialist Industrialism: Czechoslovak Management Studies in the 1960s and 1970s 237
18. Ecosystems Research and Policy Planning: Revisiting the Budworm Project (1972–1980) at the IIASA 261
19. “It is not a Question of rigidly Planning Trade” UNCTAD and the Regulation of the International Trade in the 1970s 285
20. Planning the Future of World Markets: the OECD’s Interfuturs Project 315
21. Works Cited 345