Conferencitis and World Chaos

The tardiness of this translation is an intellectual disgrace. For this book is by all odds the most important volume in existence devoted to the crucial postwar problems of international trade, investments, payments and currency. It originally appeared in German, under the title Internationale Ordnung—Heute, in Switzerland in 1945. A French translation, entitled La Communauté Internationale, was published in Geneva in 1947. The present English translation is apparently made from the second German edition. An “Epilogue” on “European Free Trade—The Great Divide” (a critical discussion of the Common Market) is reprinted from an article published in September 1958. A comparison with the 1947 French edition, however, shows that, with the exception of the two final chapters and some factual updating, the book is substantially what it was sixteen years ago. A final irony is that even the present English version (often stiff and unidiomatic) is published in Holland.

International Order and Economic Integration, by Wilhelm Roepke. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Co. $6.00

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The tardiness of this translation is an intellectual disgrace. For this book is by all odds the most important volume in existence devoted to the crucial postwar problems of international trade, investments, payments and currency. It originally appeared in German, under the title Internationale Ordnung—Heute, in Switzerland in 1945. A French translation, entitled La Communauté Internationale, was published in Geneva in 1947. The present English translation is apparently made from the second German edition. An “Epilogue” on “European Free Trade—The Great Divide” (a critical discussion of the Common Market) is reprinted from an article published in September 1958. A comparison with the 1947 French edition, however, shows that, with the exception of the two final chapters and some factual updating, the book is substantially what it was sixteen years ago. A final irony is that even the present English version (often stiff and unidiomatic) is published in Holland.

International Order and Economic Integration, by Wilhelm Roepke. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Co. $6.00