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World Trade Policies: The Changing Panorama, 1920–1953 by Henry Chalmers offers a rare, year-by-year record of how governments reshaped trade policy across three turbulent decades, from the fragile post–World War I recovery through depression, global war, and the unsettled aftermath of Korea. Originally appearing as contemporaneous surveys for the U.S. Department of Commerce, these reports combine painstaking detail with the clarity of a seasoned observer who distilled mountains of technical regulations into patterns of global significance. Chalmers traces the tightening and loosening of tariffs, quotas, and exchange controls, showing how national expedients gradually replaced the nineteenth-century liberal trading order. The volume’s chronological structure captures both the disintegration of world trade and tentative moves toward reconstruction. Early optimism about restoring prewar stability gave way to the tariff wars and bilateralism of the 1930s, the emergency regimes of wartime economies, and postwar experiments with Bretton Woods institutions, reciprocal trade agreements, and GATT. Along the way, Chalmers’ foresight stands out―identifying exchange controls as central to trade regulation as early as 1931, or reframing the postwar “dollar shortage” as consequence rather than cause. *World Trade Policies* thus provides not a retrospective synthesis but the documentary voice of an analyst writing in real time. For historians of international economics, policymakers, and students of trade, it remains a foundational guide to the interplay of protectionism, nationalism, and the search for multilateral order in the modern global economy. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953.

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Brand: University of California Press
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0520349342
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Accounting > International
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 23 September 2022
Listed Since: 30 August 2022

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