Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- Coordination of Political and Economic Policy -- General Trends of British Economic Development and Policy -- Machinery of Economic Diplomacy -- Scope of the Survey -- II. Monetary Policy -- Pre-War Policy -- The Post-War British Gold Standard, 1925-31 -- Balance of International Payments -- Suspension of the Gold Standard -- The Exchange Equalisation Account
Policy for Reconstructing an International Monetary SystemIII. Financial Policy -- Pre-War Policy -- Post-War Changes -- British Capital Invested Arroad -- Objects and Methods of Intervention -- Recent Regulation of New Foreign Loans -- Exchange and Clearing Agreements -- Conclusions -- IV. Commercial Policy -- Pre-War Policy -- From 1914 to The Great Depression -- The New Commercial Policy -- Reciprocity and Retaliation -- The Most-Favoured-Nation Clause -- Results and Conclusions -- V. Imperial Trade Policy
Trends from Economic Internationalism to Economic ImperialismOpen-Door Policy -- The Ottaws Agreements -- Operation of The Ottawa Agreements -- VI. Agricultural Policy -- Objects of Policy -- Methods Applied -- Tariff Protection -- Marketing Organisation and Quantitative Regulation -- Levies and Subsidies -- Conclusions -- VII. Labour Policy -- International Conventions -- British Ratifications -- Unratified Conventions -- Conclusions -- VIII. Other Aspects of Policy -- IX. General Conclusions
Summary
"The financial crisis of 1931 marked a turning point in British economic foreign policy, as decades of laissez-faire principles were abandoned and an active interventionist policy was introduced. This book, first published in 1936, provides an in-depth analysis of the change in Britain's policies, and the effects these changes had on the various aspects of foreign trade."--Provided by publisher
