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SUMMARY:Olivetti\, the Marshall Plan\, and European growth\, 1947-1950 - G
 iovanni Zenati\, Faculty of History
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:During the 1950s and 60s\, Western Europe experienced what is 
 now called its ‘Golden Age’ of economic performance: twenty years of u
 nprecedented GDP\, population\, and productivity growth.  The Marshall Pla
 n\, a $14 billion aid program launched by the U.S. government in the immed
 iate post-war years\, has been a central candidate for explaining these ph
 enomena.  My dissertation presents a novel explanation of the Marshall Pla
 n’s impact in Italy based on documents obtained from the archives of Oli
 vetti\, one of Italy’s most important engineering firms.  This analysis 
 highlights the effects international monetary\, trade\, and credit policy 
 on firm behaviour\, from which it may be possible to built a richer unders
 tanding of national economic performance.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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