The UN and global political economy : trade, finance, and development /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Toye, J. F. J.
Other Authors: Toye, Richard, 1973-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2004.
Series:United Nations intellectual history project (Series)
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly and Thomas G. Weiss
  • 1. The UN trade and development debates of the 1940s
  • 2. The UN recruits economists
  • 3. Michal Kalecki, the World Economic Report, and McCarthyism
  • 4. From full employment to economic development
  • 5. The early terms-of-trade controversy
  • 6. ECLA, industralization, and inflation
  • 7. Competitive coexistence and the politics of modernization
  • 8. The birth of UNCTAD
  • 9. UNCTAD under Raul Prebisch : success or failure?
  • 10. World monetary problems and the challenge of commodities
  • 11. The conservative counterrevolution of the 1980s
  • 12. What lessons for the future?
  • About the UN intellectual history project.