TY - BOOK ID - 5933188 TI - Securing the world economy : the reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920-1946 PY - 2013 SN - 9780199577934 0199577935 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Verenigde Naties (VN) KW - Economic history KW - International economic relations KW - History KW - League of Nations KW - 338 <09> KW - Economische geschiedenis KW - Développement économique KW - Relations économiques internationales KW - Coopération internationale KW - League of Nations. KW - Société des Nations KW - Histoire KW - 338 <09> Economische geschiedenis KW - Economic development KW - Development, Economic KW - Economic growth KW - Growth, Economic KW - Economic policy KW - Economics KW - Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) KW - Development economics KW - Resource curse KW - International cooperation KW - History. KW - Histoire. KW - Economic history - 1918-1945 KW - International economic relations - History - 20th century KW - Verenigde Naties (VN). KW - Développement économique KW - Relations économiques internationales KW - Coopération internationale KW - Société des Nations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5933188 AB - Securing the World Economy explains how efforts to support global capitalism became a core objective of the League of Nations. Based on new research drawn together from archives on three continents, it explores how the world's first ever inter-governmental organization sought to understand and shape the powerful forces that influenced the global economy, and the prospects for peace. It traces how the League was drawn into economics and finance by the exigencies of the slump and hyperinflation after the First World War, when it provided essential financial support to Austria, Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria, and Estonia and, thereby, established the founding principles of financial intervention, international oversight, and the twentieth-century notion of international 'development'. But it is the impact of the Great Depression after 1929 that lies at the heart of this history. Patricia Clavin traces how the League of Nations sought to combat economic nationalism and promote economic and monetary co-operation in a variety of, sometimes contradictory, ways. Many of the economists, bureaucrats, and policy-advisors who worked for it played a seminal role in the history of international relations and social science, and their efforts did not end with the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1940 the League established an economic mission in the United States, where it contributed to the creation of organizations for the post-war world - the United Nations Organization, the IMF, the World Bank, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization - as well as to plans for European reconstruction and co-operation. It is a history that resonates deeply with challenges that face the Twenty-First Century world. -- Back cover ER -