Book Review: Aussenhandelsforderung, als Wirtschaftspolitische Aufgabe
| Author | F. E. Dessauer |
| Published date | 01 March 1951 |
| Date | 01 March 1951 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002070205100600124 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
BOOK
REVIEWS
75
of
men
and
ideas
better
than
the
influence
of social
facts
and
corporative
ties.
Montreal.
Frederic
E.
Dessauer
AUSSENHANDELSFORDERUNG,
ALS
WIRTSCHAFTSPOLITISCHE
AUFGABE.
By
Dr.
Clodwig
Kapferer.
1950.
(Hamburg:
Verlag
Weltarchiv.
116
pp. DM
4,60.)
The
title
of
the
book
promises
a
discussion
of
the
policies
by which
a
government
wants to
promote
foreign
trade.
Since
Germany
com-
bined
the customary
techniques
of
promotion
with
the
most
unorthodox
methods,
a
German study
on such policies
could
offer
interesting
reading.
The
sins
of
the past
are,
however,
not
Mr.
Kapferer's
subject.
He
has
limited
his
investigations to
the
information
services
supplied
-by
the
government. These
services
are
contemplated
within
the
con-
ceptual
framework
of
a
market
economy,
which
is
little
contaminated
by
the realities
of
actual
politics
and
economics.
The
book
gives a
thorough
and
intelligent
analysis
of
the
economic,
administrative,
and
human problems
of
a
government-rmanaged
information
service,
prob-
lems
which
are
quite
similar
over
the
whole
world.
The
historical
background
of
the
service
is
outlined
and
comparisons
with
correspond-
ing
agencies
in
other countries
show
the
different possibilities
of
approach.
There
is
no
reference to
Canada, although Germany
has
now,
exactly
as
Canada had
during
the last
decades, to
provide
for
trade
information
without
the
assistance,
or
competition,
of
existing
diplo-
matic
or
consular organizations.
Montreal.
F.
E.
Dessauer
LANDER
DER
ZUKUNFT.
By
Anton
Zischka.
1950.
(Graz:
Leopold
Stocker
Verlag.
475
pp.)
The
well-known
author
of
Kampf
un
die
Weltmacht
Baumwolle,
Olkrieg,
Wissenschaft
bricht
Mono pol,
Brot
fur
Zwei
Milliarden
Menschen,
and
of
numerous
other
studies
on
the
distribution
of
raw
materials
and
population,
had
added
a
further
substantial
and
attractive
volume
to his
sequence
of
surveys.
In
the
work
under
review
he con-
tends
that
the
present
ills of
the
world
derive ultimately from
mal-
distribution
of
population.
The
amputations
of
territory
suffered
by
the
vanquished
after
the
second
world
war
have
increased
the
urgency
of
the
problem.
The
solution
lies
in
an
outflow
of
European
population
to
the
"lands
of
the
future",
to
regions which,
in
relation
to
their
economic
potential,
are
scantily
peopled.
The
author
distinguishes
five
such
regions:
1.
The
new
state
of
Israel.
2.
Argentina,
Brazil,
Chile,
Colum-
bia,
Ecuador,
Peru
and
Venezuela.
3.
The
Sahel
region
of
central
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