Political Economy and International Order in Interwar Europe

Alexandre Mendes Cunha is Associate Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He specializes in the international diffusion of economic ideas throughout history.Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak is Associate Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He studies the historical interplay between social, political, and economic ideas.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Eucken’s Competition with Keynes: Beyond the Ordoliberal Allergy to the Keynesian Medicine.- 3. Third-Way Perspectives on Order in Interwar France: Personalism and the Political Economy of François Perroux.- 4. Corporatism and Planning in Monnet’s Idea of Europe.- 5. The Construction of an International Order in the Work of Jan Tinbergen.- 6. At the Origins of European Monetary Cooperation: Triffin, Bretton Woods, and the European Payments Union.- 7. Technocracy, Corporatism, and the Development of 'Economic Parliaments' in Interwar Europe.- 8. Pluralism, Tripartism and the Foundation of the International Labour Organization.- 9. Pluralism and Political Economy in Interwar Britain: G.D.H. Cole on Economic Planning.- 10. Ordoliberalism and the Rethinking of Liberal Rationality.- 11. Classical Liberalism, Non-Interventionism and the Origins of European Integration: Luigi Einaudi, Friedrich A. von Hayek, Wilhelm Röpke.- 12. Staving off the Protectionist Slide: Snowden and the Struggle to Keep Britain Open.- 13. The Formation of Research Institutes on Business Cycles in Europe in the Interwar Period: The ‘Kiel School’ and (In)voluntary Internationalization.- 14. Divided by an Uncommon Language? The Oxford Institute of Statistics and British Academia (1935-1944).- 15. The Intellectual Origins of European Integration.

“This book brings interesting perspectives on the interwar period, showing also the link with the process of European integration in the postwar period.” (Ivo Maes and Robert Triffin Chair, History of Political Economy, Vol. 55 (2), April, 2023)