The Disintegration of the World Economy between the World Wars

by Mark Thomas (Editor)

Overview

These two volumes provide a range of perspectives on the collapse of the world economy in the interwar period, a time when problems of crisis and confrontation drastically affected world economic performance.

During this period, national and international politics intruded upon global economic relations with more intensity than before. Trade and finance became instruments of government policy with the emergence of macroeconomic analyses of domestic economic performance. While the volumes concentrate on the major trends in the global economy as a whole, attention is also paid to developments in particular economies.

The editor’s introduction provides a thematic overview of the main questions raised by this complex period. The Disintegration of the World Economy Between the World Wars, with its focus upon the period’s newly developing concepts for understanding trade and the macroeconomy, will be essential reading for understanding the growth and development of the world economy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781852789862
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	03/01/1996
Series:	The Growth of the World Economy series , #4
Pages:	1286
Product dimensions:	6.62(w) x 9.62(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edited by Mark Thomas, Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia, US

Table of Contents

Volume I
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: A Contemporary’s Overview
1. H.D. Henderson (1955), ‘International Economic History of the Inter-war Period’
Part II: The Patterns of Trade, 1919-1939
2. W.A. Lewis (1952), ‘World Production, Prices and Trade, 1870-1960’
3. H. Tyszynski (1951), ‘World Trade in Manufactured Commodities, 1899-1950’
4. League of Nations (1942), ‘The System of Multilateral Trade’
5. S. Grassman (1980), ‘Long-term Trends in Openness of National Economies’
6. M. Beenstock and P. Warburton (1983), ‘Long-term Trends in Economic Openness in the United Kingdom and the United States’
7. G. Hardach (1977), ‘Decentralization of the International Economy’
8. United Nations (1949), ‘Capital Movements 1919–1939’
Part III: International Politics and Policies: Two Recent Overviews
9. C.P. Kindleberger (1989), ‘Commercial Policy Between the Wars’
10. J. Redmond (1992), ‘The Gold Standard Between the Wars’
Part IV: The 1920s and the Reconstruction of the World Economy: The Limits of Internationalism
11. R. Nurkse (1944), ‘The Gold Exchange Standard’
12. V.P. Timoshenko (1933), ‘Prices, Production, and Stocks of Principal Agricultural Commodities’
13. J.W.F. Rowe (1935), ‘Artificial Control Schemes and the World’s Staples’
14. United Nations (1947), ‘International Cartels in the Inter-War Period’
15. S.V.O. Clarke (1973), ‘The Negotiations of 1922’
16. M.E. Falkus (1971), ‘United States Economic Policy and the “Dollar Gap” of the 1920’s’
17. S.A. Schuker (1985), ‘American “Reparations” to Germany, 1919-1933’
18. B. Eichengreen (1980), ‘International Policy Coordination in Historical Perspective: A View from the Interwar Years’
19. S.N. Broadberry (1989), ‘Monetary Interdependence and Deflation in Britain and the United States Between the Wars’
Name Index
Volume II
Acknowledgements
Part I: The Emerging Crisis, 1929-1931
1. I. Fisher (1933), ‘The Debt-Deinflation Theory of Great Depression’
2. B. Eichengreen (1992), ‘The Origins and Nature of the Great Slump Revisited’
3. A. Newell and J.S.V. Symons (1988), ‘The Macroeconomics of the Interwar Years: International Comparisons’
4. D. Williams (1963), ‘The 1931 Financial Crisis’
5. D.E. Moggridge (1970), ‘The 1931 Financial Crisis – A New View’
6. E.U. Choudhri and L.A. Kochin (1980), ‘The Exchange Rate and the International Transmission of Business Cycle Disturbances’
7. B. Bernanke and H. James (1991), ‘The Gold Standard, Deflation, and Financial Crisis in the Great Depression: An International Comparison’
8. H. James (1992), ‘Financial Flows Across Frontiers during the Interwar Depression’
9. J. Foreman-Peck, A.H. Hallet and Y. Ma (1992), ‘The Transition of the Great Depression in the United States, Britain, France and Germany’
Part II: The Response to Crisis
10. H.V. Hodson (1933), ‘Tariffs and Exchange Control: The Struggle to Escape’
11. S. Handelsbanken (1933), ‘The Great Trade War’
12. P.A. Gourevitch (1984), ‘Breaking with Orthodoxy: The Politics of Economic Policy Responses to the Depression of the 1930s’
13. C.A. Wurm (1989), ‘International Industrial Cartels, the State and Politics’
14. D. MacDougall and R. Hutt (1954), ‘Imperial Preference: A Quantitative Analysis’
15. P. Clavin (1991), ‘The World Economic Conference 1933: The Failure of British Internationalism’
16. T.J.T. Rooth (1986), ‘Tariffs and Trade Bargaining: Anglo-Scandinavian Economic Relations in the 1930s’
17. A.S. Milward (1981), ‘The Reichsmark Bloc and the International Economy’
18. L. Neal (1979), ‘The Economics and Finance of Bilateral Clearing Agreements: Germany, 1934-8’
19. V. Hentschel (1990), ‘Indicators of Real Effective Exchange Rates of Major Trading Nations from 1922 to 1937’
20. B. Eichengreen and J. Sachs (1985), ‘Exchange Rates and Economic Recovery in the 1930s’
Part III: Trade Policy, Global Depression and the Developing World
21. C.H. Lee (1969), ‘The Effects of the Depression on Primary Producing Countries’
22. V.P. Timoshenko (1930), ‘The Collapse of 1929-31’ and ‘The Spread of Depression’
23. B. Eichengreen and R. Portes (1986), ‘Debt and Default in the 1930s: Causes and Consequences’
24. I. Yamazawa (1975), ‘Industrial Growth and Trade Policy in Prewar Japan’
25. C.F.D. Alejandro (1984), ‘Latin America in the 1930s’
26. J.M. Campa (1990), ‘Exchange Rates and Economic Recovery in the 1930s: An Extension to Latin America’
Part IV: Contemporaries Look Forward
27. D.H. Robertson (1938), ‘The Future of International Trade’
28. R.B. Bryce (1942), ‘Basic Issues in Postwar International Economic Relations’
Name Index