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Commodity Measures for International Economic Stability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Boris C. Swerling*
Affiliation:
Food Research Institute, Stanford University
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Notes and Memoranda
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1952

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References

1 United Nations, Department of Economic Affairs, Measures for International Economic Stability (New York, 1951).Google Scholar Its commodity aspects, not its financial recommendations, are here under review.

2 Previous reports by earlier groups of experts were National and International Measures for Full Employment (Dec, 1949) and Measures for the Economic Development of Under-Developed Countries (May, 1951). The former provoked Viner's, JacobFull Employment at Whatever Cost,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 08, 1950, LXIV, 385407.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 The phrase is borrowed from Hancock, W. K., Wealth of Colonies (Cambridge, 1950), 49.Google Scholar

4 United Nations, Interim Coordinating Committee for International Commodity Arrangements, Review of International Commodity Problems 1950 (New York, 1951), 56.Google Scholar

5 Harrod, R. F., “The Pound Sterling,” Essays in International Finance no. 13 (Princeton, 1952), 11.Google Scholar

6 United Nations, Economic and Social Council, World Economic Situation, Relation of Fluctuations in the Trices of Primary Commodities to the Ability of Under-Developed Countries to Obtain Foreign Exchange (07, 1951), 8–10 and 101–7.Google Scholar

7 See also League of Nations, The Network of World Trade (Geneva, 1942), 6.Google Scholar

8 Stine, O. C., “Farm Prices and Outlook in the United States,” Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference of Agricultural Economists (Toronto, 1950), 184.Google Scholar

9 Bennett, M. K., et al., International Commodity Stockpiling as an Economic Stabilizer (Stanford, 1949).Google Scholar

10 League of Nations, Economic Stability in the Postwar World: Report of the Delegation on Economic Depression, Part II (Geneva, 1945), 254–6.Google Scholar