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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783066003321

Autore

Endres A. M.

Titolo

International organizations and the analysis of economic policy, 1919-1950 / / Anthony M. Endres, Grant A. Fleming [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-107-12199-X

1-280-16219-8

0-511-11908-9

0-511-02091-0

0-511-15751-7

0-511-32969-5

0-511-51088-8

0-511-04711-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Historical perspectives on modern economics

Disciplina

338.9/009/041

Soggetti

Economic policy - International cooperation - History - 20th century

Commercial policy - International cooperation - History - 20th century

International economic relations - History - 20th century

Economists - History - 20th century

Economic history - 20th century

Financial institutions, International - History - 20th century

Monetary policy - International cooperation - History - 20th century

Labor laws and legislation, International - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-282) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. Economics and Policy in International Organizations: Introduction. Prologue: A Perspective on the Literature. Economics and Policy in International Organizations: Historiographical Issues. The Ideational Context of Research in International Organizations from 1919 -- ; 2. Business Cycles: Conceptions, Causes, and Implications. Intellectual Setting in the 1920s. The ILO-League Research Program on Crises and Cycles to 1931. Reflections on the International Business Cycle: Further Analytical Work in the 1930s. Toward a Keynesian Reorientation for



Business-Cycle Analysis and Policy in the 1940s -- ; 3. The Role and Conduct of Monetary Policy in the 1920s and 1930s. Doctrinal Support for International Economic Conferences in the Early 1920s.

Sommario/riassunto

This 2002 book expands our understanding of the distinctive policy analysis produced between 1919 and 1950 by economists and other social scientists for four major international organizations: the League of Nations, the International Labor Organization, the Bank for International Settlements, and the United Nations. These practitioners included some of the twentieth century's eminent economists, including Cassel, Haberler, Kalecki, Meade, Morgenstern, Nurkse, Ohlin, Tinbergen, and Viner. Irving Fisher and John Maynard Keynes also influenced the work of these organizations. Topics covered include: the relationship between economics and policy analysis in international organizations; business cycle research; the role and conduct of monetary policy; public investment; trade policy; social and labor economics; international finance; the coordination problem in international macroeconomic policy; full employment economics; and the rich-country-poor-country debate. Normative agendas underlying international political economy are made explicit, and lessons are distilled for today's debates on international economic integration.