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The UN and global political economy : trade, finance, and development / John Toye and Richard Toye.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: United Nations intellectual history project (Series)Publication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.Description: xv, 393 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780253216861 (pbk.)
  • 0253216869 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 337
LOC classification:
  • JZ 4972 T756u 2004
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Contents:
The UN trade and development debates of the 1940s -- The UN recruits economists -- Michal Kalecki, the "World Economic Report" and McCarthyism -- From full employment to economic development -- The early terms-of trade controversy -- ECLA, industrialization and inflation -- Competitive coexistence and the politics of modernization -- The birth of UNCTAD -- UNCTAD under Raúl Prebisch: success or failure? -- World monetary problems and the challenge of commodities -- The conservative counterrevolution of the 1980s -- What lessons for the future?
Summary: A dramatic account of the UN's struggle over how best to understand severe inequities in the global economy.
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Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) JZ 4972 T756u 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000108400

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The UN trade and development debates of the 1940s -- The UN recruits economists -- Michal Kalecki, the "World Economic Report" and McCarthyism -- From full employment to economic development -- The early terms-of trade controversy -- ECLA, industrialization and inflation -- Competitive coexistence and the politics of modernization -- The birth of UNCTAD -- UNCTAD under Raúl Prebisch: success or failure? -- World monetary problems and the challenge of commodities -- The conservative counterrevolution of the 1980s -- What lessons for the future?

A dramatic account of the UN's struggle over how best to understand severe inequities in the global economy.

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