International Organizations and the Analysis of Economic Policy, 1919-1950

ISBN-13: 9780521792677 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 306 str.

Anthony Endres; Grant Fleming

Opis

From the end of World War I through the early years of the Cold War, international organizations such as the League of Nations, International Labor Organization, the Bank for International Settlements, and the United Nations had a major influence on policies adopted among member nations. This book surveys ideas produced by those organizations on such vital matters as the international business cycle; trade policy; social policy; public expenditure; taxation and government investment activity; money and exchange rate management; wage setting and full employment and the rich country-poor country divide. The work reveals explicit normative agendas underlying international political economy, and lessons are distilled for today's debates on international economic integration.

Spis treści

1. Economics and policy in international organizations: introduction; 2. Business cycles: conceptions, causes and implications; 3. The role and conduct of monetary policy in the 1920s and 1930s; 4. Public investment programs in the interwar period: pre-Keynesian, proto-Keynesian and Keynesian perspectives; 5. Trade policy research: Geneva Doctrine and the Scandinavian connection; 6. Social economics at the ILO: scope, content and significance; 7. International finance and exchange rate policy; 8. The full employment movement from the 1940s; 9. Conclusion.