International Economic Disintegration

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Author(s): Wilhelm Ropke
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Year: 1942

Language: English

Title Page
Dedication
Copyright Page
Preface
Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Meaning of International Economic Disintegration
Chapter I: Historical Orientation
Chapter II: The Quantitative Aspect of International Economic Disintegration
Chapter III: The Qualitative Aspect of International Economic Disintegration (Functional Disturbance)
(a) General Appraisal
(b) The Break in the Intercommunicating Character of World Economy (Bilateralism and Formation of Economic Blocs)
(c) The Erratic Character of World Trade
(d) The Break in the International Monetary and Financial System
(e) The Increased International Immobility (Nationalization) of Production Factors
(f) The Influence of the New Character of Protectionism
Chapter IV: Conclusions
Part II: Economic and Socio-Political, Integration and Disintegration (The Extra-Economic Framework of World Economy)
Chapter V: The Importance of the Extra-Economic Framework for the working of the Economic Process
Chapter VI: Economic and Socio-Political Integration and Disintegration in the International Field
Part III: The Military Aspect of Economic Nationalism
Chapter VII: The Non-Economic Aims of Economic Nationalism
Chapter VIII: Instrumental Analysis of the Military Argument
Part IV: The Agrarianization of the Industrial Countries
Chapter IX: Account of the Post-War Development
Chapter X: Changes in the International Localization of Agriculture
(1) Changes in the Technique of Agricultural Production
(2) Changes in the Natural Factors of Agricultural Production
(3) Changes in Market Conditions
(4) Changes in Transport
(5) Changes in Adaptability of Agriculture
(6) Changes Brought About by Non-agricultural Competition
(7) Temporary and Lasting Changes
Chapter XI: The Driving Forces of Agricultural Nationalism
Chapter XII: The Methods of Agrarianization and Agricultural Nationalism
Chapter XIII: The Effects of Agricultural Nationalism
Chapter XIV: Possibilities of Alternative Policies
(1) Constructive Programmes for Re-shaping Agriculture in the Industrial Countries
(2) Present Situation and Future Prospects (National and International) of Demand-Supply Equilibrium in Agriculture
Part V: The Industrialization of Agrarian Countries
Chapter XV: General Interpretation
Chapter XVI: Types and Stages of Industrialization
Chapter XVII: Changes in the Localization Factors of Industrial Production
(a) Changes in the Technique of Industrial Production
(b) Changes in the Labour Factor of Localization
(c) Changes in the Capital Factor of Localization
(d) Changes in the Significance of Raw Material Supplies
(e) Changes in the Consumption Factor of Localization
Chapter XVIII: The Driving Forces of Industrialization To-day
(a) Agricultural Overproduction
(b) Agrarian Overpopulation
(c) The Present Disturbances in the Mechanism of International Trade
(d) Theories and Ideologies in Favour of Industrialization
Chapter XIX: The Effects of Industrialization
Part VI
Chapter XX: The Disturbances in the Monetary-Financial Mechanism of World Economy
Part VII: Economic Nationalism and Economic Stabilization
Chapter XXI: Introduction
Chapter XXII: Problems and Avenues of Research
(a) The Stabilizing or Unstabilizing Effect of Economic Nationalism
(b) Protectionism as an Appropriate Measure of Business Cycle Policy for Combating the Depression
(c) Economic Nationalism as an Auxiliary, an Instrument or a Consequence of the Policy of National Economic Stabilization (“Full Employment”)
Part VIII: International Economic Disintegration and Changes in National Economic Structures
Chapter XXIII: Introduction
Chapter XXIV: Ways of Research
Part IX: The Future of World Economy and the Rational Scheme of International Division of Labour
Chapter XXV
Part X: International Economic Disintegration as a Problem of the Social and Political Structure
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXVII: Epilogue
(1) The Age of Tyranny
(2) The Economic Outlook After the Present War
Appendix: General Sociological Causes of the Economic Disintegration and Possibilities of Reconstruction