An Outline of International Price Theories

This essay, which has been approved by the University of London for the award of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, was prepared by me under the supervision and with the constant help of Professor Lionel Robbins during the years 1935 and 1936. I am indebted to him, firstly, for direction of the large amount of research work which was required, and secondly, for ideas and guidance in the planning and preparation of the essay. He has read through the entire manuscript, and, but for his criticisms and suggestions at every stage of its preparation, it could not have taken its present form. Dr. P. N. Rosenstein-Rodan also gave generously of his time to criticize the first part of the essay. That the essay has many short-comings is a fact of which I am fully conscious. The responsibility for them, of course, is solely mine.

I owe a debt of gratitude to the Board of Trustees for the Administration of the Sino-British Foundation in Nanking for granting me the scholarship in Economics for 1934–7, because, but for that financial help, my studies in England and the preparation of this essay could not have been undertaken.

Finally, my thanks are due to the authorities of the Library of the British Museum, of the Goldsmiths’ Company’s Library of Economic Literature, and of the British Library of Political and Economic Science for granting me the use of those institutions.

C. Y. Wu.

London,

1937.