Book Reviews : The Radical Liberal: New Man in American Politics. By ARNOLD S. KAUFMAN. (New York: Atherton Press, 1968. Pp. xv, 175. $5.95.)

• DOI: 10.1177/106591296802100321
• Author: William C. Spragens
• Published date: 01 September 1968
• Date: 01 September 1968
• Subject Matter: Articles

522

Economic

Policies

Toward

Less

Developed

Countries.

By

HARRY

G.

JOHNSON.

(Washington,

D.C. :

The

Brookings

Institution,

1967.

Pp.

xvi,

279.

$6.75.)

Distinguished

economist

Harry

Johnson

offers

an

excellent

study

of

interna-

tional

trade

policy

and

its

effect

on

less

developed

countries.

The

central

theme

of

the

book

is

that

the

United

States

must

respond

both

politically

and

economically

to

the

proposals

made

by

the

less

developed

countries

at

the

first

United

Nations

Conference

on

Trade

and

Development

which

met

in

Geneva

in

1964.

The

author

points

out

that

&dquo;it

is

...

clear

that

many

facets

of

the

aid

and

trade

policies

of

the

developed

countries

impose

serious

barriers

to

the

development

of

the

less

developed

countries,

barriers

whose

reduction

might

contribute

substantially

to

the

promo-

tion

and

diffusion

of

economic

growth

throughout

the

world.&dquo;

In

the

initial

portion

of

the

book

the

author

examines

the

economic,

political,

and

institutional

setting

for

the

1964

UNCTAD

meeting

and

the

U.S.

policy

prob-

lems

which

ensued.

Then,

in

the

following

chapters,

he

analyzes

the

international

aspects

of

and

the

policy

obstacles

to

economic

development,

the

extent

to

which

the

existing

international

economic

framework

limits

policy

alternatives,

and

the

existing

arrangements

for

trade

in

primary

products

and

manufactured

goods.

Finally,

after

a

general

but

timely

chapter

on

international

monetary

reform,

he

concludes

with

general

suggestions

for

U.S.

policy.

These

include

U.S.

pledges

to

raise

no

new

barriers

against

imports,

to

untie

its

aid,

and

to

lower

barriers

that

weigh

especially

heavily

on

the

less

developed

countries.

In

general,

this

book

would

be

most

valuable

to

the

person

who

has

some

familiarity

with

economic

theory

and,

preferably,

international

economic

theory.

For

the

political

scientist

interested

in

the

problems

of

development,

Johnson’s

third

and

fourth

chapters

-

the

policy

obstacles

to

development

of

both

the

devel-

oped

and

less

developed

nations

and

the

policy

alternatives

within

the

contempo-

rary

international

economic

system

-

are

extremely

useful

in

understanding

the

significance

of

the

international

system

for

development.

Although

Johnson

presents

no

bibliography,

he

cites

and

analyzes

the

recent

work

of

several

economic

theorists

(including

that of

Raul

Prebisch)

in

the

text,

in

footnotes

conveniently

located

at

the

bottom

of

the

pages,

and

in

the

appendices.

The

book

is

well-designed,

though

in

the

standard

Brookings

Institution

format;

and

it

includes

several

tables

and

a

useful

index.

University

of

Washington

ROBERT

O.

MYHR

The

Radical

Liberal:

New

Man

in

American

Politics.

By

ARNOLD

S.

KAUFMAN.

(New

York:

Atherton

Press,

1968.

Pp. xv, 175.

$5.95.)

This

brief

but

enlightening

study

of

the

American

&dquo;New

Left&dquo;

is

written

by

a

University

of

Michigan

philosopher.

Except

for

a

short

discussion

of

Kant

which

appears

not

greatly

relevant

to

Kaufman’s

over-all

concem,

this

essay

could

be

the

work

of

a

power-oriented

political

scientist.

Kaufman’s

work

includes

a

foreword

by

Hans

J.

Morgenthau

in

which

Mor-

genthau

identifies

Kaufman’s

goal

as

identifying

the

answers

to

philosophic

ques-

tions

about

the

New

Left.

The

focus

is

the

new

crisis

in

American

liberalism

(more