Preface; 1. Post-war growth: an overview Nicholas Crafts and Gianni
Toniolo; 2. Institutions and economic growth: Europe after World War II
Barry Eichengreen: 3. The varieties of Eurosclerosis: the rise and decline
of nations since 1982 Mancur Olson; 4. Why the 1950s and not the 1920s?
Olsonian and non-Olsonian interpretations of two decades of German economic
history Karl-Heinz PaquÉ; 5. Convergence, competitiveness and the exchange
rate Andrea Boltho; 6. British economic growth since 1945: relative
economic decline ... and Renaissance? Charles Bean and Nicholas Crafts; 7.
Economic growth in postwar Belgium Isabelle Cassiers, Philippe de VillÉ and
Peter M. Solar; 8. France 1945-92 Pierre Sicsic and Charles Wyplosz; 9.
Economic growth and the Swedish model Magnus Henrekson, Lars Jonung and
Joakim Stymna; 10. Characteristics of economic growth in the Netherlands
during the postwar period Bart van Ark, Jakob de Haan and Herman J. de
Jong; 11. Portuguese postwar growth: a global approach JoÃo L. CÉsar das
Neves; 12. Growth and macroeconomic performance in Spain, 1939-93 Leandro
Prados de la Escosura and Jorge C. Sanz; 13. Irish economic growth, 1945-88
Cormac Ó GrÁda and Kevin O'Rourke; 14. Italy Nicola Rossi and Gianni
Toniolo; 15. West German growth and institutions, 1945-90 Wendy Carlin; 16.
An exercise in futility: East German economic growth and decline, 1945-89
Albrecht O. Ritschl; 17. Postwar growth in the Danish economy Peder J.
Pedersen; 18. Reflections on the country studies Nicholas Crafts and Gianni
Toniolo; Index.
