Catching up with America : productivity missions and the diffusion of American economic and technological influence after the second world war : proceedings of the Caen preconference 18-18-20 September 1997, workshop C 45 of twelfth International Economic History Congress of Madrid / edited by Dominique Barjot ; organizers Dominique Barjot, John Gillingham, Terushi Hara.

Paris : Presses de l'université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002.

477 pages ; 24 cm.

Collection Roland Mousnier, 1621-4129

"This book is the outcome of the conference held in Caen (France) in September 1997, in preparation for the International Economic History Congress in Madrid (August 1998). This collection of essays provides, for the first time, a systematic overview of the productivity missions organised in the years following the Second World War, to investigate in situ the production and management techniques adduced to account for the American lead. Bringing together research workers from many countries (Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States), the volume addresses four successive themes. The first one concerns the part played by the United States and that country's action on the international scene. This, in turn, leads to the subsequent query: Did the productivity missions constitute tools for modernisation, or were they devices of domination? The second part considers three national experiences: the United Kingdom, France, and Japan. The third part examines a number of branches: iron and steel, electrical engineering, petrochemicals, and the tyre industry. The final part seeks to assess the impact of the missions. Ultimately, one needs must make a distinction between the rhetoric of productivity, on the one hand, and actual achievements, on the other; the missions were part of a wider process of Americanisation, wherein lies one of the keys to the economic miracles of the post-war era."--Page 4 of cover.

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9782840502401

Plan Marshall Congrès.
Economic assistance, American Europe Congresses.
Economic assistance, American Japan Congresses.
Productivity Europe Congresses.
Productivity Japan Congresses.
Diffusion of innovations Congresses.
Productivité Congrès.
Productivité États-Unis Congrès.
Productivité Europe Congrès.
Productivité Japon Congrès.
Aide économique américaine Europe Congrès.
Aide économique américaine Japon Congrès.
Innovations Diffusion Congrès.
International economic relations
Diffusion of innovations
Economic assistance, American
Einfluss
Produktivität
Technologie
Weltpolitik
Wirtschaft
Kongress
Europe Foreign economic relations Congresses.
États-Unis Relations économiques extérieures Congrès.
Europe Relations économiques extérieures Congrès.
Japon Relations économiques extérieures Congrès.
Europe
Japan
Europa
USA
International economics history American influence 20th century

Kongress Caen 1997.
Proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings

Barjot, Dominique.
Collection du Centre Roland Mousnier.

Location: Library main 289064
Call No.: BIB 231288
Status: Available