skip to main content
Language:
Search Limited to: Search Limited to: Resource type Show Results with: Show Results with: Search type Index

The Evolution of the International Economic Order

1978 Princeton University Press ;ISBN: 9781400868513 ;ISBN: 1400868513 ;ISBN: 9780691609683 ;ISBN: 0691609683 ;ISBN: 9780691003603 ;ISBN: 0691003602 ;EISBN: 9781400868513 ;EISBN: 1400868513 ;DOI: 10.1515/9781400868513 ;OCLC: 905862237 ;LCCallNum: HF1007.L68

Full text available

Citations Cited by
  • Title:
    The Evolution of the International Economic Order
  • Author: Lewis, William Arthur
  • Subjects: Addresses, essays, lectures ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS ; Economics ; International ; International economic relations
  • Description: Do rich industrial nations underestimate the threat to their economic stability posed by demands for a new international economic order? Are the developing countries wrong to assume that their economic advancement depends on a transfer of wealth from the richer nations? Sir W. Arthur Lewis's provocative analysis of the present economic order and its origins suggests that the answer to both questions is yes. Professor Lewis perceptively illuminates aspects of recent economic history that have often been overlooked by observers of international affairs. He asks first how the world came to be divided into countries exporting manufactures and countries exporting primary commodities. High agricultural productivity and a good investment climate allowed countries in Northwest Europe to industrialize rapidly, while the favorable terms of trade they enjoyed assured them and the temperate lands to which Europeans migrated of continuing dominance over the tropical countries. At the core of the author's argument lies the contention that as the structure of international trade changes, the tropical countries move rapidly toward becoming net importers of agricultural commodities and net exporters of manufactures. Even so, they continue to depend on the markets of the richer countries for their growth, and they continue to trade on unfavorable terms. Both of these disadvantages, he concludes, stem from large agricultural sectors with low productivity and will disappear only as the technology of tropical food production is revolutionized. Originally published in 1978. ThePrinceton Legacy Libraryuses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
  • Publisher: United States: Princeton University Press
  • Creation Date: 2015
  • Format: 92
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9781400868513
    ISBN: 1400868513
    ISBN: 9780691609683
    ISBN: 0691609683
    ISBN: 9780691003603
    ISBN: 0691003602
    EISBN: 9781400868513
    EISBN: 1400868513
    DOI: 10.1515/9781400868513
    OCLC: 905862237
    LCCallNum: HF1007.L68
  • Source: ScholarVox International
Back to results list
INSPIRE LIBRARY - TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY (84-028) 37 755 057 Feedback
19 Nguyen Huu Tho St. Dist.7, HCM thuvien@tdtu.edu.vn

Copyright © 2017 INSPIRE LIBRARY - TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY

Searching Remote Databases, Please Wait