Between 1948 and 1951, the Marshall Plan delivered an unprecedented 12.3 billion dollars in U.S. aid to help Western European countries recover from the destruction of World War II, and forestall Communist influence in that region. The Marshall Plan: A New Deal for Europe examines the aid...

"Between 1946 and 1952, Albert O. Hirschman, a German-born economist and wartime refugee, worked as an economic analyst in the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Board of the United States. He was first in charge of the Western European desk; later he was the Fed's representative to the...

"The US government launched the European Recovery Programme, otherwise known as the 'Marshall Plan', in order to save war-torn Europe from collapse in 1948. Yet while much is known about the economic side of the Marshall Plan, the extensive film campaign that accompanied it has been largely...