Is it true that the Marshall Plan accepted planned economies in Europe?

laoi

Well a planned economy is described below: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_economy The Marshall Plan was offered to the Soviet Bloc but they refused it. To answer your question, I don't think the Marshall Plan accepted planned economies. If the Soviet Bloc had accepted the Plan, they would have had to change their way of doing things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan Jun 16 09, 7:03 AM

busted123

It's true that the Marshall Plan was all about money. At: http://www.answers.com ,just put 'Marshall Plan' in the search box and keep scrolling down, the info does go on. The Plan was meant to help reconstruct Europe, which was in bad shape after WWII, and to build trade...again, all about the money. It was in place between 1948 to 1951. The Plan (at first)only had one stipulation: The money ($13.5 billion dollars) couldn't be used to buy military weapons, but that changed after 1950 to help Europe rearm. Re: the Plan- "hisorians still argue about its intentions...but it was phenomenally successful in that it raised the GNP in western Europe by 25%." As it happens, the plan was "offered" -"17 countries" took it. And as it happens in this old world, at least one country is documented to have used the money beFORe it was meant to rearm, in indirect ways, to continue war in Indochina. The USSR declined it altogether. This Plan is the foundation of NATO and the Atlantic Alliance. The rest you historians can puzzle over; a safe link is provided. Nice to learn these things. A very direct answer to your question: the money was given with only that one stipulation about how to spend it, as far as I saw it. Any plans European countries had for it, they used it for. Jun 16 09, 7:13 AM