International montary problems (1957 - 1963)

The speeches in this volume have been selected from among a much larger number given by Mr. Jacobsson during his tenure of office as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, from December 1956 until his death in May 1963. In order to keep the volume within reasonable bounds, it has been necessary to omit several major speeches that have already been published, many less important addresses, and all his contributions to periodicals. A full list of Mr. Jacobsson's speeches and writings, giving details of publication where they have been separately issued, is given in an Appendix.

The speeches here reproduced include the reports presented at the spring meetings of the Economic and Social Council of the
United Nations (omitting only the first, which has been published in Some Monetary Problems-International and National ¹). They also include the addresses in which he introduced the Report of the Executive Directors of the Fund at the Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors in September or October of each year. Ten other addresses and a background paper, representative of his thoughts on different phases of recent economic history and on a variety of current topics, have been chosen to give some idea of the range of his reflections.