International economic disintegration

[...]... 7 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DISINTEGRATION course, are always bound to follow one another, and it would surely be a fatal error in methodology to deal with one of these according to rules which have proved useful only for the other PAET I THE MEANING OE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DISINTEGRATION CHAPTER I HISTORICAL ORIEFTATION for whatever reasons, something very serious is happening to international economic. .. the Rational Scheme of International Division of Labour _ _ _ _ _ _ 233 PART X CHAPTER XXVI The International Economic Disintegration as a Problem of the Social and Political Structure - 237 CHAPTER XXVII Epilogue - - - - - - - - - - (1) The Age of Tyranny (2) The Economic Outlook After the Present War - - 245 - - 245 256 APPENDIX GENERAL SOCIOLOGICAL CAUSES OP THE ECONOMIC DISINTEGRATION AND POSSIBILITIES... the experiences of the economic history of capitalism If that is the case, it will give a new significance to the study of earlier periods in economic history If it should be true that the rifts go down to the very foundation of the economic and social system itself, we would do well to look for earlier parallels of simultaneous major periods of economic disintegration and of disintegration of the entire... fuller treatment H Pirenne's book on Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe, New York, 1937, should be consulted 9 So in a letter from the Florentine merchants in Bruge to the Hansa in 1457 (quoted from Rorig) 21 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DISINTEGRATION to take the place of written laws and treaties.1 Now, the most significant fact is that this international economic system broke down (between... PAGE (b) Protectionism as an Appropriate Measure of Business Cycle Policy for Combating the Depression - 204 (c) Economic Nationalism as an Auxiliary, an Instrument or a Consequence of the Policy of National Economic Stabilization (" Full Employment ") - 205 PART VIII INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DISINTEGRATION AND CHANGES IN NATIONAL EcoNOMrc STRUCTURES CHAPTER XXIII Introduction - - - - - - - - - - 219 CHAPTER... this sequence of economic integration and disintegration has been preceded by earlier examples the analysis of which may contribute to a better understanding and a more satisfactory interpretation of the present development Along with the general development of our modern economic system, the nineteenth century saw a gradual and almost uninterrupted process of growing international economic expansion... Vierteljahrshefte zur Konjunkturforschung, Supplement 2, 1926 11 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DISINTEGRATION the reciprocal nature of trade, proves that the bulk of world trade must have belonged to economic interchange within the highcapitalistic sphere itself This deduction is corroborated by a number of calculations of the relative intensity of this "intraindustrial" economic interchange One of these calculations, made... Crumbling of Empire, The Disintegration of World Economy, London, 1938; and by Lionel Robbins, The Economic Causes of War, London, 1939 7 See my own approaches to these problems given in the article : ' 'Kapitalismus und Imperialisms," Zeitschrift fur schweizerische Statistik und Volkswirtschaft, 1934, pp 370-386; and in my book Crises and Cycles, pp 4-6 13 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DISINTEGRATION made familiar... Trade, 1934, League of Nations, Geneva, 1935, pp 69-70 15 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DISINTEGRATION the existence of an international monetary system (gold standard), the prevalence of equalizing clauses in commercial treaties (mostfavoured-nation treatment, open-door policy, and in some cases national treatment), bearable duties, smoothness of the international credit machinery and a reasonable co-ordination... memorandum which the author wrote together with Professor Alexander Rustow (University of Istanbul) in the ote g summer of 1938 f 1938 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC DISINTEGRATION is conceived primarily as an economic one and why, therefore, the traditional approaches of economics have been relied upon thus far Whether or not this traditional conception corresponds to the inner convictions of our scholars . Overpopulation - - - - - 179 (c) The Present Disturbances in the Mechanism of Inter- national Trade - - - - - - - - 1180 (d) Theories and Ideologies in Favour of Industrialization - 180 CHAPTER . XXIII Introduction - - - - - - - - - - 219 CHAPTER XXIV Ways of Research - _ _-_ 222 PART IX CHAPTER XXV The Future of World Economy and the Rational Scheme of Inter- national Division . and International) of Demand-Supply Equilibrium in Agri- culture - - - - - - - - - 160 CONTENTS PAGE PART V THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF AGRARIAN COUNTRIES CHAPTER XV General Interpretation - -