The Marshall Plan (1948–1952) was the largest aid transfer in history. This paper estimates its effects on Italy's postwar local economic development. It exploits plausibly exogenous differences between Italian provinces in the value of reconstruction grants they received. Provinces that could...

During the last interwar years and the first three years of the Second World War, relations between states considerably deteriorated. In 1943, David Mitrany published at Chatham House, his well-known work “A Working Peace System”, in which he expressed his own arguments against the...

Ein informativer, gut verständlicher Überblick über die Geschichte des Marshallplans und seine Zukunft, gegeben in verschiedenen Beiträgen und Interviews von Vertretern aus Wirtschaft und Politik, von Historikern und Journalisten. Schaubilder, Fotos und eine umfangreiche Bibliographie...