Originally published in 1987 to commemorate the 40^th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, this fascinating collection of essays, from an eminent ‘insider’ to the Marshall Plan, combines economics, politics and history to provide authoritative and personal insights into the creation of one of the greatest foreign aid programmes of the twentieth century.

Any reader interested in the Marshall Plan itself, the inner workings of a major act of US foreign policy, and its many economic, political and historical facets will welcome the reissue of this valuable book from one of America’s most distinguished economists.

• Book Cover 2
• Title01 4
• Copyright01 5
• Title02 8
• Copyright02 9
• Contents 10
• Preface 11
• 1 1947 Excerpts from the Cleveland-Moore-Kindleberger Memorandum of 12 June 1947, on a European Recovery Program 13
• 2 1948 Memorandum for the Files: Origins of the Marshall Plan 31
• 3 1949 Germany and the Economic Recovery of Europe 38
• 4 1951 European Economic Integration 48
• 5 1953 The European Recovery Program 63
• 6 1968 The Marshall Plan and the Cold War 84
• 7 1973 An Excerpt from an Oral History, Truman Library 95
• 8 1978 The OECD and the Third World 106