The Economic Basis of a Durable Peace (Routledge Revivals)

James E. Meade

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781136259159
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Economic Theory
• Index: Economics

First published in 1940, this book suggested the basic principles upon which a new international economic order should be built at the end of the Second World War. Particular attention is paid to the possibility of constructing such an international order on the basis of divergent national economic systems – whether liberal or planned, capitalist or socialist. In undertaking this task the author combines theoretical analysis with a description of the immediate pre-war economic situation and writes in a language which is equally accessible to the economist and the layman.

Index

Agricultural products and prices, 23, 25, 27, 80, 81

America. See United States Anglo-American Trade Agreement, 28

Australia, 141, 149, 150, 152, 155

Balkan countries: population in relation to capital in, 142

Bank, Central, 38, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 51, 65, 116

Bank, International, 42, 51, 52, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71, 112, 180, 186

Bulgaria, Federal Constitution of, 155

Canada, immigration into, 155

Capital movements, International, 101–113

Carr-Saunders, World Population, 152n., 153n.

Cartels, Industrial, 47

China, 102, 141; Chinese immigrants, 155

Colonies and Raw Material Supplies, 159–178

Currency: International, 37–56, 57, 58, 64, 66, 68; foreign, 106

Economics: Liberal and Planned, 20–36

Einzig, Paul, Theory of Forward Exchange, 69n.

Exchange Equalization Funds, National 60, 70, 71

Exchange: Exchange Control and Clearing Agreements, 114–140; foreign exchange transactions, 23, 31; variable foreign exchange rates, 57–73, 95; exchange value, 24, 25, 39, 65, 86

Factories, socialized, 33

Fair Labour Standards Act, 27

Federated Union, 10

France: peace-time economies of, 22; foreign trade of, 23; “anti-slump” policy, 24n.; economic planning, 25; “Blum” experiment, 25; exchange value of the franc, 25, 26, 41; wage rates and hours of labour, 27; population, 141, 149; reproduction rate, 147, 152n.

Free Trade, 21, 23, 74, 79, 84, 91, 92, 93

Germany: economic events in, 15, 16; unemployment in, 15; “planned” economic system of, 28; gold value of the mark, 28, 29, 123; National Socialists, 28, 29; money lent to, by America, 107, 108; German goods, 122; Germany's cred...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• The Economic Basis of a Durable Peace
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• I. INTRODUCTORY
• II. LIBERAL AND PLANNED ECONOMIES
• III. AN INTERNATIONAL CURRENCY
• IV. VARIABLE FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
• V. INTERNATIONAL TRADE
• VI. INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MOVEMENTS
• VII. EXCHANGE CONTROL AND CLEARING AGREEMENTS
• VIII. INTERNATIONAL POPULATION MOVEMENTS
• IX. COLONIES AND RAW MATERIAL SUPPLIES
• X. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
• INDEX