First published in 1960, this seminal work illuminates the interrelations of the various approaches to the theory of economic growth. Professor Meade seeks to understand the factors which determine the speed of economic growth and outlines the ways in which classical economic analysis may be...

1. Introduction -- 2. Techniques of monetary control -- 3. Techniques of control II : portfolio constraints and the reserve base system -- 4. Techniques of control III -- 5. The new approach -- 6. The history of competition and credit control -- 7. Competition and credit control : an analysis --...

1. A league of peace -- 2. A basis of confederation -- 3. International arbitration : its scope and method -- 4. Settlement by conciliation -- 5. Court and council : their appointment and personnel -- 6. International force -- 7. The economic boycott -- 8. The international executive -- 9....

1. Introduction : the world's oil industry -- 2. The U.S.A. and world oil -- 3. Soviet oil development -- 4. The major oil-exporting countries -- 5. Oil policies in Western Europe -- 6. Japan : growth and dependence on oil imports -- 7. Dependence on oil in the developing world -- 8. Oil in...

ch. 1. The meaning of "unemployment" -- ch. 2. The measure of unemployment -- ch. 3. Does unemployment grow? -- ch. 4. Minor causes of unemployment -- ch. 5. The root cause of unemployment -- ch. 6. The economic remedy -- ch. 7. Bimetallism and trade depression -- ch. 8. Palliatives of unemployment.

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. The market and the state -- pt. 3. Markets, merchants and middlemen -- pt. 4. Markets and urban manufacture -- pt. 5. Market production and women's work -- pt. 6. Market structures and social institutions : commerce and customary context.