editor of a number of essays on The World Crisis. The main principles of the classic economic liberalism that he promoted were ones that were dormant during a turbulent period of international relations. Rappard argued that free trade and immigration were essential to bring economic stability and prosperity to Europe and America. Without considerable interdependence between nations, competition between nations would inhibit business competitiveness. International Law must be allowed to flourish in an environment of co-operation. Furthermore, the League of Nations should be supported by permanent international institutions that could enforce a supra-national legal system to promote both peace and trade. Only such a system could prevent a repeat of the cataclysm of 1914–18 he told a school of economists at the University of Chicago in 1936. His ideas were directly inherited by Hayek and Friedman the leading political economists of the post-war era to influence American capitalism. Rappard predicted the Soviet Union's redundant for Collectivism would cause the economy to implode under its own weight. In The Secret of American Prosperity, he tried to unravel the reasons for American high productivity and industrial success urging Europe to learn from it. According to historian Susan Pedersen, Rappard was "large, ruddy, curly-haired, and inveterately cheerful... he was efficient, capable, and effortlessly trilingual... and had an expansive network of liberal internationalist friends." Publications International Relations as Viewed from Geneva (1925) The Post-War Economic problems and solutions for Poland, Austria, and Czechoslovakia (1931) The Geneva Experiment (1931) The Business Corporations of Massachusetts: Study of the history of Economics and Law Compared; Thesis at the Faculty of University degrees. The Common Menace of Economic and Military Armaments (1936) The Government of Switzerland (1936) The Individual and the State in the Evolution of the Swiss Constitution (1936) The Crisis of Democracy (1938) The Quest for Peace since World War Two (1940) Pennsylvania and Switzerland: The Origins of the Swiss Constitution (1941) Collective Security in Swiss Experience, 1291–1948 To what do we owe the Economic superiority of the United States? The Future of Peace according to Cordell Hull (1944) Switzerland the Organisation of Europe (1950) The Secret of American Prosperity (1955) See also Ludwig Von Mises International Red Cross Committee References (ICRC) 1883 births 1958 deaths Educators from New York City Swiss Calvinist and Reformed Christians Alliance of Independents politicians Members of the National Council (Switzerland) Swiss diplomats Swiss economists Academic staff of the University of