John M. Letiche started life as Ianik Letichevsky, a citizen of the newly constituted Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The son of a brilliant but dictatorial father and a loving, cultivated mother, he went on to a remarkable career as an accomplished scholar, professor of economics, and...

The literature on international economics has become excessively specialized. In selecting distinguished readings for this source book--including contributions by Nobel laureates such as Lawrence R. Klein, Arthur Lewis, James Meade, and Theodore W. Schultz--Professor Letiche breaks the mold. The...

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- I. Basic Principles of Present American Commercial Policy -- II . United States Experience with Reciprocal Trade Treaties and Agreements Prior to 1934 -- III. Development of United States Foreign Trade and Equality of Treatment -- IV. Relation...