Since the 1980s there has been a renewed interest in attempts to introduce a sense of history into economic literature. In this book, the authors argue that it is not possible to explain a state of the world without first analysing the processes that lead to that state. The contributions...

Frontmatter -- Foreword / Ryder, Guy -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Antecedents -- Part I. An Experiment in Social Justice: 1919-1939 -- 1. Beginnings -- 2. Facing the Crisis -- Part II. The Second Founding: 1940-1948 -- 3. The Road to Philadelphia -- 4. A Place in the New...