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The arrangements for international trade and payments embodied in the Bretton Woods agreements reflected two aspects of the experience of the interwar period. On the one hand, many economists felt that a domestic policy aimed at full employment, could at times, be inconsistent with fixed exchange rates and a liberal trade policy. On the other hand, the attempts of individual countries to free domestic policy from the constraints of the balance of payments, by unilateral devaluations, or by protectionist devices, led to retaliation, competitive devaluations, and competitive increases in trade restrictions, which disrupted international trade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses how anti-recessionary policies involving low interest rates might put pressure on the foreign reserve position of the United States by bringing about a conversion of foreign-held dollar balances in gold. The article also examines the influence of monetary and fiscal measures on current account. The article's general conclusion is that those movements in foreign holdings between gold and dollar assets throughout the years, which could be attributed to interest-rate changes, account for only a small fraction of total foreign dollar holdings.

Examines the effect of reserve price scheme for wool on the balance of payments and gross national product. Influence on national income; Analysis on the elasticity of demand for wool and reserve price; Determination on the marginal rate of taxation on wool growers income.