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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CvQOuNecy4&feature=related (3.00- 5.00) The Political Economy of the Cold War London School of Economics, October 18, 2010 A foregone conclusion? Nixon and Khrushchev in the kitchen, Moscow 1959 A foregone


  1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CvQOuNecy4&feature=related (3.00- 5.00) The Political Economy of the Cold War London School of Economics, October 18, 2010

  2. A foregone conclusion? Nixon and Khrushchev in the kitchen, Moscow 1959

  3. A foregone conclusion?

  4. A foregone conclusion? Jules Régis Debray, French leftist philosopher and comrade in arms of Che Guevara: There is “more power in rock music and blue jeans than the entire Red Army”

  5. A foregone conclusion?

  6. 11/9/1989: The scoop that never was Checkpoint Charlie: The crossing-point from West to East Berlin

  7. The scoop that never was

  8. A foregone conclusion? � Growth rate declined � Corruption—the ‘grabbing hand’ (Shleifer) � Total factor productivity � Officials have an interest in (TFP) declined restricting output � Raw materials worth more � ‘You pretend to pay us than finished products and we pretend to work.’ � Price controls blocked � Price controls blocked � No incentives in the � No incentives in the market signals (as Hayek market signals (as Hayek workplace had warned) � Excess defence spending � Steel consumption/GDP � Inadequate allowances ratio 4 times as high as in the United States for depreciation of capital � Only oil price hike kept stock show going � Chernobyl, April 16, 1986 � Armageddon Averted � Ill health and alcoholism (Kotkin) � 17 litres a year …

  9. TFP = Total Factor Productivity Source: HBS Case 795-060

  10. Source: Maddison , World Economy

  11. Source: HBS Case 795-060

  12. The sad truth � Soviet GDP was not 49% of US level in 1990 (CIA), more like 36% (European Comparison Project) Project) � In 1945 it had been 27% � Soviet per capita consumption was not 31% of US level, more like 24% � In other words, Turkey – Bergson (1997)

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  14. Source: Maddison, World Economy

  15. Source: World Bank, WDI

  16. What I used to think: The Eurocentric narrative The Eurocentric narrative

  17. Europe’s predicament in 1947 � Population up 10%, despite death toll of war � Industrial production down 40% � Reduction of overseas � Reduction of overseas invisible earnings and worsening terms of trade reduce capacity to import by 40%

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  20. The traditional answer: Marshall’s Plan ‘Europe … must have substantial additional help or face economic, social, and political deterioration of a very grave character.’ – at Harvard, June 5, 1947

  21. Causes of the post-war ‘miracles’

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  23. 1. External factors? � Marshall Aid � Around 2.5% of recipient GDP � For each $1 of aid some 65 cents went to increased consumption and 35 cents to increased investment � An extra $1 of investment raised national product by 50 cents in the subsequent year cents in the subsequent year � Helped finance early trade deficits � American sponsorship of trade liberalization � ‘Americanization’ of business � ‘Taylorist’ management, U.S. marketing techniques � Sustained American military expenditures

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  25. 2. Internal factors � Those who started from lowest base generally had highest growth � Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Austria � Abundant labour (refugees) plus wartime investment � in capital stock gave Germans an advantage � Reduction of class conflict compared with 1920s— the success of ‘corporatism’ (Maier) � Unemployment down from 10% (1950) to 1% (1960) � Lower labour radicalism, e.g. Germany

  26. (a) Social and Christian Democracy � ‘Scarcely anyone doubts � France: Monnet’s Plan— that we must move dirigisme towards socialism’ � West Germany: Erhard’s (Hayek) social market economy’ � Planning as legacy of war � Stable currency � Stable currency economy economy � Free trade � Britain’s welfare state � Deregulation � 20% of productive capacity � Italy: Church, industry nationalized plus Mafia � Welfare “from cradle to grave” � The ‘honored society’ in � Healthcare free at point of Sicily delivery

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  28. (b) Versus ‘real existing socialism’ � Soviet exactions: c. $14 bn. � Five and Six Year Plans � Heavy industry and urbanization � Collectivization � Collectivization � Esp. Baltic states, Romania � Forced labor � Danube-Black Sea Canal � Bulgaria 100,000 slaves, 361,000 workers � The ‘New Class’ (Milovan Djilas)

  29. Catch: The West’s slide into ‘stagflation’

  30. Source: Maddison, World Economy

  31. Source: Maddison, World Economy

  32. Source: OECD

  33. Source: ONS

  34. Source: Global Financial Data

  35. Source: Nationwide

  36. What I think now: East Asia as the key East Asia as the key

  37. The view from the East � West European success � The Soviets fared much was not the surprise of better in Latin America the post-war period and Africa, where economic performance � Asian growth was much deteriorated (Westad, more remarkable Mitrokhin) Mitrokhin) � We need to give more � We need to give more � South Vietnam: exception weight to American that proves the rule occupations in Japan and � The decisive year was not South Korea 1989 but 1979 … when � Also Hong Kong, China joined the Asian Malaysia, Singapore, bandwagon Taiwan and even Indonesia

  38. Asian share from 14% to 34% … … W European down from 36% to 22%, N American from 44% to 26% Source: Bridgewater

  39. Source: World Bank, WDI

  40. Source: OECD

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