National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade (eBook)

Albert Hirschman (Autor)

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2024
194 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-37817-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This study begins with a brief survey of economic thought on the relationship between foreign trade and national power, from the Mercantilists on. Chapter II attempts a systematic theoretical approach to the subject. It first makes clear the fundamental basis of the possible use of foreign trade as an instrument of national power policy. Using well-known concepts of economic analysis, it proceeds to show under what conditions and by means of what policies this instrument is likely to attain its highest efficiency. The principles of power policy thus deduced theoretically are then compared with the actual practices followed by German trading methods in recent years. Toward the end of this chapter the reader will be carried into a detailed discussion of certain problems of the theory of international trade, which are touched upon earlier in the chapter. Chapter III is applied to the historical background of our problem. It gives a survey of the literature on economic aggression before and during World War I and brings out the importance of the Paris Economic Conference of the Allies in 1916 for the Versailles Treaty and postwar economic policies. In Chapter IV we review in the light of our theoretical and historical analyses certain safeguards or remedies which could be or have been proposed to prevent the use of foreign trade as an instrument of national power policies. Certain questions raised in Part 1 can be answered in quantitative terms. Part 2 consists, therefore, of an exposition of various trends of international trade in recent years disclosed by statistical analysis. In Chapter V we calculate an index number expressing the extent to which the trade of the large trading nations is or has been directed by preference toward the smaller trading countries. Chapter VI gives index numbers for the degree of concentration of their foreign trade on one or a few big markets or sources of supply. Finally, in Chapter VII we measure the extent to which world trade has been based primarily on an exchange of manufactures against raw materials and foodstuffs. This title is part of UC Presss 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 1945, with an expanded edition published in 1980.

Inhalt

PART ONE: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL ASPECTS 
I. Economic Thought on the Relationship Between Foreign Trade and National Power 
II. Foreign Trade As an Instrument of National Power
III. The Question of "Economic Aggression" During World War I
IV.    Problems of Reconstruction

PART TWO: THREE STATISTICAL INQUIRIES INTO THE STRUCTURE OF WORLD TRADE 
V. The Preference of Large Trading Countries for Commerce with Small Trading Countries
VI. Concentration upon Markets and Supply Sources of the Foreign Trade of Small or Weak Nations
VII. The Commodity Structure of World Trade

Appendix A. Note on Statistical Methods
Appendix B. Resolutions of the Paris Economic Conference of the Allies, June, 1916
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.6.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Analysis • Development • economic aggression • Economic Analysis • Economic History • Economic Policy • Economics • economy • foodstuffs • Foreign Trade • german trading methods • History • Industrialization • International Economic Development • International Trade • large trading nations • mercantilists • national power • paris economic conference • postwar economic policies • power policy • protectionism • Public Policy • Raw Materials • trade aggression • trading methods • Treaty • Versailles • Versailles Treaty • world economies • World War I • ww I
• ISBN-10: 0-520-37817-2 / 0520378172
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-37817-9 / 9780520378179