The paper analyzes the influence of “third way” ideologies on the ECSC High Authority, particularly with regard to its duties and organisation. Starting from the scientific debate about the legal status of the first successful attempt of European integration, the Author reconstructs a set of ideal and personal links between groups and people operating throughout the thirties and forties of the twentieth century in France and some economic measures adopted in the same country during the postwar period. In this line, it is easier to understand some administrative and economic novelties introduced by the Monnet Plan for the French Industrial Reconstruction and the Schuman Plan, both elaborated by Jean Monnet and his staff. In this line, the Author underlines how Jean Monnet was deeply inspired by Paul Reuter, Pierre Uri and, last but not least, Jean Fourastié, who played a very important advisory role, pushing Monnet to invent a model that was able to blend European planism and American productivism in an original supranational public power.
Planism and "third way" ideologies in the ECSC High Authority
ISONI, Alessandro
2008-01-01
Abstract
The paper analyzes the influence of “third way” ideologies on the ECSC High Authority, particularly with regard to its duties and organisation. Starting from the scientific debate about the legal status of the first successful attempt of European integration, the Author reconstructs a set of ideal and personal links between groups and people operating throughout the thirties and forties of the twentieth century in France and some economic measures adopted in the same country during the postwar period. In this line, it is easier to understand some administrative and economic novelties introduced by the Monnet Plan for the French Industrial Reconstruction and the Schuman Plan, both elaborated by Jean Monnet and his staff. In this line, the Author underlines how Jean Monnet was deeply inspired by Paul Reuter, Pierre Uri and, last but not least, Jean Fourastié, who played a very important advisory role, pushing Monnet to invent a model that was able to blend European planism and American productivism in an original supranational public power.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
