This book studies the international coordination of monetary and fiscal policies in the world economy. It carefully discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. As to policy competition, the focus is on monetary and fiscal competition between Europe and...

The engineer economist -- The failure of postwar reconstruction -- Rueff and French economic strategy during the Depression -- The crisis of liberalism and the future of liberal capitalism in the 1930s -- L'ordre social and the war -- Reconstruction and inflation -- Keynes, the postwar "age of...