World Trade Politics / Henry Chalmers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chalmers, Henry, Author.

Contributor:

Condliffe, J. B.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (584 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Preface

Contents

1920-1923: Extreme postwar trade restrictions moderated as disorganization diminishes

1924-1926: Trade policies move toward less restrictive and more stable basis

1927: Moderating tendencies evolve into programs through treaties and conferences

1928: Distinct progress toward tariff stability and moderation of trade restrictions

1929: Relative lull follows trade policy readjustments of first postwar decade

1930: General economic depression becomes dominant influence on commercial policy measures

1931: Market shrinkages and financial crises prompt drastic trade control measures

1932: Economic difficulties under deepening depression shape course of trade policies

1933: Failure of hopes for collective action prompts more drastic national measures

1934: Great activity in trade controls nets little easement in over-all restrictions

1935: Domestic economic recovery brings some relaxation of foreign trade barriers

1936: Trade recovery favored by improving conditions held back by uncertainties

1937: Easement of depression tensions encourages relaxation of emergency measures

1938: Incipient trade liberalizing moves checked by recession and political tensions

1939: Outbreak of war brings wide resort to precautionary controls and deals

1940: Spread of the war causes sharp shifts in world trade and controls

1941: Year of commercial deterioration is climaxed by pearl harbor and world-wide war

1942: As war becomes global normal trade relations eclipsed by emergency arrangements

1943: Trade conditions worsen in axis regions while improving among allies

1944: Prospect of war's end brings plans for more normal trading conditions

1945: War's end brings only limited progress toward demobilization of controls

1946: Acute needs of recently war-involved areas are the dominant trade forces

1947: Increased importations beyond earnings bring renewed tightening of controls

1948: Substantial improvement fails to materialize and the Marshall plan is launched

1949: First broad efforts to "loosen up the log jam" of trade and currencies

1950: Trade approaches normalization until Korea brings scramble for supplies

1951: Subsidence of post-Korean trade boom brings price drops and renewed import curbs

1952-1953: Looking ahead in world trade policies

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520349353

0520349350

OCLC:

1198930882