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Economic and Political Conditions of World Stability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Quincy Wright
Quincy Wright
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University of Chicago
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The opportunity to talk to The Economic History Association is asflattering to an international lawyer as it is unexpected. I have never been entirely clear on how economic historians select their materials in order to distinguish their product from political history, a subject with which I am supposed to be more familiar. The future historian of the period in which we live will, I am sure, encounter unusual difficulty in making this distinction. America's foreign policy seems to center around economic aid to allies and economic boycott of potential enemies. The New Deal made economic welfare of the people a domestic policy until the outbreak of war compelled the national economy to become an instrument for achieving unconditional surrender of foreign enemies. It cannot be said that the present administration, with proposals for more social security, continued foreign aid, and continued agreements for reducing trade barriers, is moving very fast in unscrambling economics and politics.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , Fall 1953 , pp. 363 - 377
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1953

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