Catching Up with America

This is a serious academic volume, not a self-help book — the catalog classification is a mismatch worth naming plainly. Edited by Dominique Barjot and published by the Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, it collects international scholarly essays examining how European and Japanese productivity missions transferred American economic practices after World War II under the Marshall Plan. The scope is genuinely impressive, with national case studies covering the UK, France, Japan, and others, and reviews in The Journal of Economic History confirm it landed well in academic circles. For economic historians and advanced students of post-war reconstruction, it fills a real gap in the literature. For anyone else, including the general self-help reader it is shelved alongside here, it is not the right book.