The UN and global political economy : trade, finance, and development /
John Toye and Richard Toye.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.
- xv, 393 p. ; 24 cm.
- United Nations intellectual history project .
- United Nations intellectual history project (Series) .
Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
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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United Nations--History. Naciones Unidas--Historia
International economic relations--History--20th century. Relaciones económicas internacionales