International Monetary Co-Operation 1945-52PDF电子书下载

PART ONE FIRST PRINCIPLES 13

Chapter Ⅰ．INTER-COUNTY PAYMENTS 13

The Problem of External Liquidity 14

The Problem of External Disequilibrium 15

The Problem of the Transmission of Business Depressions 17

Conclusion 18

Chapter Ⅱ．EXCHANGE RATES 20

Chapter Ⅲ．INTERNATIONAL LIQUIDITY 32

The Means of International Settlement 32

Multilateral Settlement in Conditions of Equilibrium 36

Multilateral Settlement in Conditions of Disequilibrium 39

The Scope for International Co-operation 45

Chapter Ⅳ．INTERNATIONAL DISEQUILIBRIA 46

Devaluation in Favourable Circumstances 49

Devaluation in Unfavourable Circumstances 50

Factors Affecting the Elasticity of Demand for Exports 53

Summary and Conclusions 56

The Concept of＇Suppressed Disequilibrium 59

Chapter Ⅴ．THE INTERNATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF DEPRESSIONS 61

PART TWO MACHINERY OF INTERNATIONAL MONETARY CO-OPERATION 67

Chapter Ⅵ．THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 67

The Objects of the Fund 68

Exchange Rates 70

Additional Liquidity 75

Multilateral Settlement 79

Chapter Ⅶ．THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 83

Restrictions on Trade and Payments 83

The Treatment of Disequilibria 88

The International Transmission of Depressions 91

Conclusion 94

Chapter Ⅷ．EUROPEAN MONETARY CO-OPERATION 96

The Intra-European Payments Schemes 99

The European Payments Union—Liquidity Provisions 107

The E．P．U．—Correction of Disequilibria 118

Chapter Ⅸ．STERLING 120

Sterling under the Gold Standard 120

The Pre-war Sterling Area 122

War time 124

Post-war Changes 128

The Pathology of Sterling 141

PART THREE THE COURSE OF EVENTS SINCE THE WAR 149

Chapter Ⅹ．BEFORE SEPTEMBER 1949 149

Exchange Rates 149

The Causes of the Post-war Disequilibria 152

Suppressed and Open Disequilibria in the Postwar Period 157

International Settlements in the Post-war Period 159

The International Transmission of Depressions 163

Chapter Ⅺ．SEPTEMBER 1949 AND AFTER 166

READING LIST 175

INDEX 177