Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Phillipp R. Schofield, Peasant and Community in Medieval England Ian Kershaw & David M. Smith (eds.), The Bolton Priory Compotus Michael Jones (ed.), Revolution and Consumption in Late Medieval England Peter Northeast (ed.), Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury Pamela Sharpe, Population and Society in an East Devon Parish Donald Winch & Patrick K. O'Brien (eds.), The Political Economy of British Historical Experience S.D. Smith, ‘An Exact and Industrious Tradesman’ Nicola Verdon, Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England J.R. Wordie (ed.), Agriculture and Politics in England Lewis Johnman & Hugh Murphy, British Shipbuilding and the State Jairus Banaji, Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity Angeliki E. Laiou, The Economic History of Byzantium Adriaan Verhulst, The Carolingian Economy Adam Steinhouse, Workers' Participation in Post-Liberation France Patrick Major & Jonathan Osmond (eds.), The Workers' and Peasants' State Rainer Karlsch & Raymond Stokes, The Chemistry must be Right Monica Chojnacka, Working Women of Early Modern Venice Harold James & Jacob Tanner (eds.), Enterprise in the Period of Fascism in Europe Wendy Z. Goldman, Women at the Gates David Armitage & Michael J. Braddick (eds.), The British Atlantic world Steven W. Usselman, Regulating Railroad Innovation Nikki Mandell, The Corporation as Family Bruce L. Gardner, American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century Stefano Battilossi & Youssef Cassis (eds.), European Banks and the American Challenge Geoffrey Jones & Lina Galvez-Munoz (eds.), Foreign Multinationals in the United States Mauro F. Guillén, The Limits of Convergence Dennis O. Flynn, Arturo Giráldez & James Sobredo (eds.), Studies in Pacific History Nick Tiratsoo, Junichi Hasegawa, Tony Mason & Takao Matsumara, Urban Reconstruction in Britain and Japan David Zweig, Internationalizing China Charles H. Feinstein & Mark Thomas, Making History Count Phillip Mirowski, Machine Dreams     

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Books reviewed: Great Britain and Ireland Joseph P. Huffman, Family, commerce and religion in London and Cologne Ray Lock, ed., The court rolls of Walsham le Willows Bryan Waites, Monasteries and landscape in north east England Jenny Kermode, Medieval merchants Christopher W. Brooks, Lawyers, litigation and English society since 1450 Craig Muldrew, The economy of obligation J.R. Dickinson, The lordship of Man under the Stanleys Charles W.J. Withers, Urban highlanders Jörg Vögele, Urban mortality change in England and Germany Hugh Driver, The birth of military aviation David J. Jeremy, A business history of Britain Jean-Pierre Dormois & Michael Dintenfass, eds., The British industrial decline Rex Pope, The British economy since 1914 General Alan R.H. Baker, Fraternity among the French peasantry Tom Scott, Regional identity and economic change Dieter Schott, ed., Energie und Stadt in Europa Michael Richards, A time of silence Paolo Squatriti, Water and society in early medieval Italy Philip Jones, The Italian city-state Anthony L. Cardoza, Aristocrats in bourgeois Italy J.K.J. Thomson, Decline in history Mikulá? Teich, ed., Bohemia in history Hiroaki Kuromiya, Freedom and terror in the Donbas R.W. Davies, Soviet economic development from Lenin to Khrushchev Michael Ellman & Vladimir Kontorovich, eds., The destruction of the Soviet economic system Tom Scott, ed., The peasantries of Europe Deborah Simonton, A history of European women’s work John Killick, The United States and European reconstruction Marilyn C. Baseler, ‘Asylum for mankind’ Cathy Matson, Merchants and empire Margaret Ellen Newell, From dependence to independence Richard Buel, Jr., In irons: Britain’s naval supremacy and the American revolutionary economy Mark M. Smith, Debating slavery Alan Derickson, Black lung: anatomy of a public health disaster Paul A.C. Koistinen, Planning war, pursuing peace Thomas Dublin, When the mines closed Jacob Metzer, The divided economy of Mandatory Palestine Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, Imperial power and popular politics J.Y. Wong, Deadly dreams: opium and the ‘Arrow’ war (1856–1860) in China John Lie, Han unbound: the political economy of South Korea Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui, ed., Textiles: production, trade and demand David Thomas, Len Holden, & Tim Claydon, eds., The motor car and popular culture in the 20th century Lanthier & Hubert Watelet, eds., Private enterprise during economic crises/L’entreprise privée en période de crise économique Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff, & Peter Temin, eds., Learning by doing in markets, firms and countries     

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Britnell, Richard and Hatcher, John (eds) Progress and problems in medieval England Carpenter, Christine (ed) Kingsford’s Stonor letters and papers, 1290-1483 Carlin, Martha Medieval Southwark Greenslade, M.W. (ed) The Victoria history of the county of Stafford. VII: Leek and the moorlands Sambrook, Pamela Country house brewing in England, 1500–1900 Griffiths, Paul Youth and authority: formative experience in England, 1560–1640 Daunton, Martin (ed) Charity, self interest and welfare in the English past Armstrong, Alan (ed) The economy of Kent, 1640–1914 Saville, Richard Bank of Scotland: a history, 1695–1995 Sanderson, Elizabeth C. Women and work in eighteenth-century Edinburgh Brown, Kenneth D. The British toy industry: a history since 1700 Panayi, Panikos German immigrants in Britain during the nineteenth century, 1815–1914 Gray, Robert The factory question and industrial England, 1830–1860 Kadish, Alon (ed) The corn laws: the formation of popular economics in Britain Kirk, Neville (ed) Social class and Marxism: defences and challenges Cherry, Steven Medical services and the hospitals in Britain, 1860–1939 Perren, Richard Agriculture in depression, 1870–1940 Glynn, Sean and Booth, Alan Modern Britain: an economic and social history Roberts, Elizabeth Women and families: an oral history, 1940–1970 Tranter, N.L. British population in the twentieth century Coopey, Richard and Woodward, Nicholas (eds) Britain in the 1970s: the troubled economy Hoffman, Philip T. Growth in a traditional society: the French countryside, 1450–1815 Heller, Henry Labour, science and technology in France, 1500–1620 Johnson, Christopher H. The life and death of industrial Languedoc, 1700–1920 Ferguson, Niall Paper and iron: Hamburg business and German politics in the era of inflation, 1897–1927 Fontaine, Laurence History of pedlars in Europe Kagan, Richard L. and Parker, Geoffrey (eds) Spain, Europe and the Atlantic world: essays in honour of John H. Elliott Morawska, Ewa Insecure prosperity: small-town Jews in industrial America, 1890–1940 Galambos, L. and Sewell, J.E. Networks of innovation: vaccine development at Merck, Sharp and Dohme and Mulford, 1895–1995 Clotfelter, Charles T. Buying the best: cost escalation in elite higher education Fagge, Roger Power, culture and conflict in the coalfields: West Virginia and south Wales, 1900–22 Hart, Vivien Bound by our constitution Winters, Jeffrey A. Power in motion: capital mobility and the Indonesian state Beasley, W.G. Japan encounters the barbarian: Japanese travellers in America and Europe Schwartz, Stuart B. (ed) Implicit understandings: observing, reporting, and reflecting on the encounters between Europeans and other peoples in the early modern era Perkin, Harold, The third revolution: professional elites in the modern world Braga de Macedo, J., Eichengreen, B. and Reis, J. Currency convertibility: the gold standard and beyond Officer, Lawrence Between the dollar-sterling gold points: rates, parity, and market behaviour Irwin, Douglas A. Against the tide: an intellectual history of free trade     

Employment,schooling and productivity growth

Summary This paper presents an empirical analysis of labour demand and labour productivity growth in The Netherlands. Assuming an aggregate production function with as factors capital and 3 types of labour, distinguished by educational attainment, cost minimization leads to a set of 3 labour demand relations to be estimated on time series data. Using the estimates and the implied elasticities, aggregate labour productivity growth is decomposed into factor substitution, autonomous factors, labour time shortening, economies of scale, utilization rates and the increased educational level of the working population. The contributions of substitution, utilization rates and education appear to be substantial, notably in the seventies.

List of symbols

Variables a _i Efficiency index of skill leveli - C production - h _i working-time index for skill leveli - g _i steady-state growth rate of skill leveli - K capital stock - L _i employment volume of skill leveli - L _i ^* desired level of labour skill leveli - p output price - p ^* desired output price - s _i ^* long-run static labour shares in the production value - p _k rental price of capital - P index of total factor productivity - P _l index of labour productivity - u _i utilization rate of skill leveli - u _k utilization rate of capital - w _i wage rate for skill leveli - y production volume - y _yij Hicks partial elasticities of complementarity - _i steady-state cost share of skill leveli - _k Bk steady-state cost share of capital - _f lf highest level price index in cost function nesting - _g 4 intermediate level price index in cost function nesting - _h 4 lowest level price index in cost function nesting - _i steady-state relative wage share of skill leveli - _ij Allen partial elasticities of substitution Parameters d _i l adjustment speed of skill leveli - d _p price adjustment speed - M mark-up on marginal costs - scale elasticity of production - _i distribution parameter in cost function,i = 3, g - _i distribution parameter in cost function,i = k, h - _i distribution parameter in cost function,i =1, 2 - _i autonomous labour productivity growth for skill leveli - _i cost share of skill level in base year - _f production cost index in base year - _i hours elasticity in labour efficiency index - group elasticity of substitution betweenL ₃ and (K, (L ₁,L ₂)) - _g Og group elasticity of substitution betweenK and (L ₁,L ₂) - _h 6h group elasticity of substitution betweenL ₁ andL ₂ We would like to thank B. Downey, G.M.M. Gelauff, A. Nieuwenhuis, J.M.M. Ritzen, J.C. Siebrand and an unknown referee for helpful comments on earlier drafts.     

Book reviews

Judith A. Green, The aristocracy of Norman England Martha Carlin, ed., London and Southwark inventories Dagmar Freist, Governed by opinion Peter Searby, A history of the University of Cambridge, III Christopher W. Brooks and Michael Lobban, eds., Communities and courts in Britain Jack Simmons and Gordon Biddle, eds., The Oxford companion to British railway History Roger Lloyd-Jones and M. J. Lewis, British industrial capitalism since the industrial Revolution Frank Neal, Black ’47 J. N. Bartlett, Davidsons of Mugiemoss Iorwerth Prothero, Radical artisans in England and France John Newlands, Put not your trust in money Claudia Nelson and Ann Sumner Holmes, eds., Maternal instincts Richard Anthony, Herds and hinds Bernard Harris, The health of the schoolchild Tom Buchanan, Britain and the Spanish Civil War Sebastian Ritchie, Industry and air power Allan Ormerod, An industrial odyssey Martin Chick, Industrial policy in Britain Jean-Pierre Gross, Fair shares for all Frances M. B. Lynch, France and the international economy Marjolein ’t Hart, Joost Jonker, and Jan Luiten van Zanden, eds., A financial history of the Netherlands Michele Fratianni and Franco Spinelli, eds., A monetary history of Italy Carla Rahn Phillips and William D. Phillips Jr., Spain’s golden fleece Sidney Pollard, Marginal Europe John Horne, ed., State, society and mobilization in Europe during the First World War Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Galman, and Karin Gleiter, In pursuit of Leviathan Paul A. C. Koistinen, Mobilizing for modern war Hal S. Barron, Mixed harvest J. Gregory Sidak, Foreign investment in American telecommunications Sanford M. Jacoby, Modern manors Michael French, US economic history since 1945 Nicholas Spulber, The American economy Stephen Haber, ed., How Latin America fell behind L. J. Butler, Industrialisation and the British colonial state Holden Furber, Private fortunes and company profits in the India trade in the 18^th Century Vera Mackie, Creating socialist women in Japan Hugh Cunningham and Pier Paolo Viazzo, eds., Child labour in historical perspective Dietmar Rothermund, The global impact of the great depression Sidney Pollard, The international economy since 1945 D. Lal and H. Myint, The political economy of poverty, equity and growth James P. Henderson, ed., The state of the history of economics Johnston Birchall, The international co-operative movement     

Een eenvoudig macro-economisch model voor Nederland

Summary On the basis of the neo-classical theory of the cycle, developed by D. B. J. Schouten, an effort has been made to introduce some of its elements in an empirical model for the Dutch economy. As far as possible this theory has been used to explain production, investment, employment and wages. The sampling period covered 1953–1965; estimates of the parameters were ordinary least squares estimates. A simulation of the Dutch economy for the period 1953–1968, with only the exogenous variables predetermined, gave satisfying results. System stability tests showed dampened oscillations, each cycle taking about 8 1/2 years.D Symbolenlijst c consumptieve bestedingen van gezinshuishoudingen (p _c ) - ç _a ,c _a bruto produktiecapaciteit van bedrijven (p _ij ) - e uitvoer goederen en diensten (p _e ) - h arbeidsproduktiviteit bij bedrijven (p _ij ) - ,i bruto investeringen van bedrijven, excl. woningbouw en voorraadvorming (p _i ) - l werkgelegenheid bij bedrijven, incl. zelfstandigen - m invoer goederen en diensten (p _m ) - p _i loonsom per man bij bedrijven (P _c ) - q over- of ondercapaciteit bij bedrijven als percentage van de bruto produktiecapaciteit in periodet-1 - v bruto afzet van goederen en diensten, excl. voorraadvorming, primaire inkomens van en naar het buitenland en lonen en salarissen betaald door de overheid (p _v ) - w werkloosheid als percentage van de afhankelijke beroepsbevolking, incl. zelfstandigen - ij bruto produktie van bedrijven (p _ij ) - z bruto beschikbaar overig inkomen (p _i ) Exogene variabelen h _w herwogen wereldhandel - x materiële overheidsuitgaven en woningbouw (p _x )     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Great Britain and Ireland Old age in English history: past experiences, present times, Virginia Berridge Women in medieval English society, P.J.P Goldberg Trade, urban hinterlands and market integration, Phillipp Schofield Historical accounting records: a guide for archivists and researchers, Marianne Pitts The development of agrarian capitalism: land and labour in Norfolk, 1440‐1580, Christorpher Dyer Figures in the landscape: rural society in England, 1500‐1700, Adam Fox Migration and society in Britain, 1550‐1830, Peter Clark British clubs and societies, 1580‐1800: the origins of an associational world, Craig Muldrew Nature contested: environmental history in Scotland and northern England since 1600, Ian Whyte The development of London as a financial centre, Forrest Capie The country housewife’s family companion (1750), Joan Thirsk Nature’s governement: science imperial Britain, and the ’improvement’ of the world, John Gascoigne Gales: a study in brewing, business and family history, Terry Gourvish Fighting words: working‐class formation, collective action, and discourse in early nineteenth‐century England, Owen Jackson Striking a bargain: work and industrial relations in England, 1815‐1865, Julian Davies Patterns of philanthropy, charity and society in nineteenth‐century Bristol, Alan Kidd Merchants to multinationals: British trading companies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Peter Cain The global cigarette, origins and evolution of British American Tabacco, 1880‐1945, B.W.E. Alford Poor women’s lives: gender, work, and poverty in late‐Victorian London, Sheila Blackburn More than munitions: women, work and the engineering industries, 1900‐1950:, Gail Braybon Austerity in Britain: rationing, controls, and consumption, 1939‐1955, Peter Howlett March of the matrons: military influence on the British civilian nursing profession, 1939‐1969, Peter Mohr The British economy since 1945: engaging with the debate, Scott Newton Crises revolutions: and self‐sustained growth: essays in European fiscal history, 1130‐1830, Henry Roseveare The rise of cites in north‐west Europe, Gervase Rosser Privilege and the politics of taxation in eighteenth‐century France; liberté, fiscalité, Morag Martin Histoire agraire de la France au XVIIIe siècle: inerties et changments dans les capagnes françaises entre 1715 et 1815, Hugh Clout French anti‐slavery: the movement for the abolition of slavery in France, 1802‐1848, Pamela Pilbeam The modernist enterprise: French elites and the threat of modernity, 1900‐1940, Jackie Clarke Industrial culture and bourgeois sociey: business, labour, and bureaucracy in modern Germay, Joseph Melling The chameleon state: hlobal culture and policy shifts in Britain and Germany, 1914‐1933, Theo Balderston An economic history of Sweden, Ollie Krantz Silver, trade and war: Spain and America in the making of early modern Europe, Henry Kamen Imagining consumers: design and innovation from Wedgewood to Corning, Cheryl Buckley Reinventing free labor: padrones and immigrant workers in the Norh American West, 1880‐1930,Karen Jones Boodless victories: the rise and fall of the open shop in the Philadelphia metal trades, 1890‐1940, Neil A. Wynn Essays on the great depression, Peter Fearon Airline excutives and federal regulation: case studies in American enterprise from the airmail era to the dawn of the jet age, Michael French Modern forests: statemaking and environmental change in colonial eastern India, John M. Mackenzie The Japanese economy, John F. Wilson Australia in the global economy: coninunity and change, Bernard Attard The great divergence: Europe, China and the making of modern world economy, Philip Richardson Terms of labor: slavery, serdom, and free labor,Kenneth Morgan The legacy of Frederich von Hayek, vols I: Politics; II: Philosophy; III, Economics, Roger Middleton The challenge of global captalism: the world economy int 21st century, Clive H. Lee General Mark Ormrod, Margaret Bonney, & Richard Bonney, eds. Crises, revolutions and self‐sustained growth Adriaan Verhulst. The rise of cities in north‐west Europe Michael Kwass. Privilege and the politics of taxation in eighteenth‐century France Gérard Béaur. Histoire agraire de la France au XVIIIe siècle Lawrence C. Jennings. French anti‐slavery Marjorie A. Beale. The modernist enterprise Jürgen Kocka. Industrial culture and bourgeois society Tien‐lung Liu. The chameleon state Lars Magnusson. An economic history of Sweden Stanley J. Stein & Barbara H. Stein. Silver, trade and war Regina Lee Blaszczyk. Imagining consumers Gunther Peck. Reinventing free labor Howell John Harris. Bloodless victories Ben S. Bernanke. Essays on the great depression W. David Lewis, ed. Airline executives and federal regulation K. Sivaramakrishnan. Modern forests David Flath. The Japanese economy David Meredith & Barrie Dyster. Australia in the global economy Kenneth Pomeranz. The great divergence Stanley L. Engerman, ed. Terms of labor Peter J. Boettke, ed. The legacy of Frederich von Hayek Robert Gilpin with Jean Millis Gilpin. The challenge of global capitalism     

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Broad, John and Hoyle, Richard, eds. Bernwood Adams, S. ed. Household accounts and disbursement books of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester Backhouse, Marcel The Flemish and Walloon communities at Sandwich during the reign of Elizabeth I Stewart, Richard W. The English Ordnance Office, 1585–1625 Wrigley, E.A., Schofield, R.S., Davies, R.S., & Oeppen, J.E. English population history from family reconstitution Grell, Ole Peter Calvinist exiles in Tudor and Stuart England Dobson, Mary J. Contours of death and disease in early modern England Lane, Joan Apprenticeship in England Floud, Roderick The people and the British economy Mandler, Peter The fall and rise of the stately home Davis, John R. Britain and the German Zollverein Crafts, Nicholas Britain's relative economic decline Hendrick, Harry Children, childhood and English society Short, Brian Land and society in Edwardian Britain Webster, P The health services since the war, II Digby, Ann and Stewart, John, eds. Gender, health and welfare Van Ark, Bark, & Crafts, Nicholas, eds. Quantitative aspects of post-war economic growth Oliver, Michael J. Whatever happened to monetarism? Bonneuil, Noel Transformation of the French demographic landscape Shapiro, Ann-Louise Breaking the codes Kranakis, Eda Constructing a bridge Groote, Peter Infrastructure and Dutch economic development Patriarca, Silvana Numbers and nationhood Muir, Edward Ritual in early modern Europe Crossick, Geoffrey, ed. The artisan and the European town Aldcroft, Derek H. Studies in the interwar European economy Paquette, Robert L., & Engerman, Stanley L., eds. The Lesser Antilles in the age of European expansion Johnson, Howard The Bahamas from slavery to servitude Bernstein, Paul American work values Beab, Jonathan J. Beyond the broker state Muirhead, Stuart Crisis banking in the East Sako, Mari, & Sato, Hiroki, eds. Japanese management and labour in transition Frederico, Giovanni An economic history of the silk industry Todd, Jan Colonial technology Ausubel, Jesse H., & Langford, H. Dale, eds. Technological trajectories and the human environment Steckel, Richard H., & Floud, Roderick eds. Health and welfare during industrialisation Cunningham, Andrew & Andrews, Bridie eds. Western medicine as contested knoledge     

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Great Britain and Ireland T. C. Smout, ed., Scotland since prehistory: natural change and human impact N. M. Herbert, ed., A history of the county of Gloucester, V: the Forest of Dean Colin Platt, King Death: the Black Death and its aftermath in late medieval England Del Sweeney, ed., Agriculture in the middle ages: technology, practice, and representation Mark Overton, Agricultural revolution in England: the transformation of the agrarian economy, 1500-1850 Roy Porter and Marie Mulvey Roberts, eds., Pleasure in the eighteenth century Adrian Randall and Andrew Charlesworth, eds., Markets, market culture and popular protest in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland Barry Reay, Microhistories: demography, society and culture in rural England, 1800-1930 Edgar Jones, True and fair: a history of Price Waterhouse Michael Turner, After the Famine: Irish agriculture, 1850-1914 Roger Middleton, Government versus the market: the growth of the public sector, economic management and British economic performance, c. 1890-1979 Andrew Marrison, British business and protection, 1903-1932 James Foreman-Peck, Sue Bowden, and Alan McKinlay, The British motor industry Peter Scott, The property masters: a history of the British commercial property sector General Gary Herrigel, Industrial constructions: the sources of German industrial power Volker R. Berghahn, ed., Quest for economic empire: European strategies of German big business in the twentieth century Paul Bairoch and Martin Körner, eds., La Suisse dans l'économie mondiale/Die Schweiz in der Weltwirtschaft Ivan T. Berend, Central and eastern Europe, 1944-1993: detour from the periphery to the periphery Wendy Davies and Paul Fouracre, eds., Property and power in the early middle ages Jonathan Dewald, The European nobility, 1400-1800: new approaches to European history Ann Goldgar, Impolite learning: conduct and community in the republic of letters, 1680-1750 Iain R. Smith, The origins of the South African war, 1899-1902 Augustus J. Veenendaal, Slow train to paradise: how Dutch investors helped build American railroads Elmus Wicker, The banking panics of the great depression Deborah Oxley, Convict maids: the forced migration of women to Australia Stanley Lebergott, Consumer expenditures: new measures and old motives Jack Goody, The East in the West G. D. Snooks, The dynamic society: exploring the sources of global change Elliott A. Krause, The death of the guilds: professions, states, and the advance of capitalism, 1930 to the present Maxine Berg, A woman in history: Eileen Power, 1889-1940     

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Book reviewed in this article: David A. Hinton, Archaeology, economy and society: England from the fifth to the fifteenth century Peter Brimblecombe, The big smoke: a history of air pollution in London since medieval times David Pam, A history of Enfield. Vol. I: before 1837. A parish near London Peter J. Bowden, ed., Economic change: wages, profits and rents, 1500-1750. Chapters from ‘The agrarian history of England and Wales’, vol. I Ann Kussmaul, A general view of the rural economy of England, 1538-1840 David J. Starkey, British privateering enterprise in the eighteenth century Hoh-Cheung Mui and Lorna H. Mui, Shops and shopkeeping in eighteenth-century England F. M. L. Thompson, ed., The Cambridge social history of Britain, 1750-1950 Barry Reay, The last rising of the agricultural labourers: rural life and protest in nineteenth-century England Kenneth Warren, Consett iron, 1840 to 1980: a study in industrial location Peter N. Davies, Fyffes and the banana: Musa Sapientum. A centenary history, 1888-1988 Richard Whipp, Patterns of labour: work and social change in the pottery industry Eric M. Sigsworth, Montague Burton: the tailor of taste David J. Jeremy, Capitalists and Christians: business leaders and the churches in Britain, 1900-1960 Pádraig McGowan, Money and banking in Ireland: origins, development and future Jon Press, The footwear industry in Ireland, 1922-1973 Justin Davis Smith, The Attlee and Churchill administrations and industrial unrest, 1945-55: a study in consensus Richard Holt, ed., Sport and the working class in modern Britain Bruce Collins and Keith Robbins, eds., British culture and economic decline GENERALJohn Komlos, Nutrition and economic development in the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy: an anthropometric history Heinrich Becker, Handlungsspielräume in der Agrarpolitik in der Weimarer Republik zwischen 1923 und 1929 Joel D. Benson, Cooperation to competition: English perspective and policy on Anglo-Dutch economic relations during the reign of James I R. T. Griffiths, ed., The Netherlands and the economic integration of Europe, 1945-1957 Timo Myllyntaus, The gatecrashing apprentice: industrialising Finland as an adopter of new technology Martin Blinkhorn, ed., Fascists and conservatives: the radical right and the establishment in twentieth-century Europe Charles Tilly, Coercion, capital, and European states: AD 990-1990 Clive Archer, Organizing western Europe Arthur Marwick et al., War, peace and social change: Europe, 1900-1955 William Molle, The economics of European integration Roy Porter, ed., The medical history of waters and spas Pat Hudson and W. R. Lee, eds., Women's work and the family economy in historical perspective R. Bartlett, ed., Land commune and peasant community in Russia Stuart Bruchey, Enterprise: the dynamic economy of a free people John Graham, ed., ‘Yours for the revolution’: The Appeal to Reason, 1895-1922 Gerald D. Nash, World War II and the west: reshaping the economy Randall Bennett Woods, A changing of the guard: Anglo-American relations, 1941-1946 Richard F. Hirsh, Technology and transformation in the American electric utility industy Paul J. Miranti, Accountancy comes of age Joy Parr, The gender of breadwinners: women, men and change in two industrial towns, 1880-1950 Guy P. C. Thomson, Puebla de los Angeles: industy and society in a Mexican city, 1700-1870 David Robinson, ed., Migration in colonial Spanish America Philip D. Curtin, The rise and fall of the plantation complex: essays in Atlantic history Jan Breman, Labour migration and rural transformation in colonial Asia S. D. Punekar and R. Varickayil, eds., Labour movement in India, documents 1850-1890, I: Mines and plantations Robin Jeffrey et al., eds., India: rebellion to republic—selected writings, 1857-1990 Angus Maddison and Gé Prince, eds., Economic growth in Indonesia, 1820-1940 Jean Batou, Cent ans de résistance au sous-développement: l'industrialisation de l'Amérique Latine et du Moyen-Orient face au défi européen, 1770-1870 Peter Mathias and John A. Davis, eds., The first industrial nations Christian Suter, Schuldenzyklen in der Dritten Welt: Kreditaufnalhme, Zahlungskrisen und Schuldenregelungen peripherer Länder im Welstystem von 1820 bis 1986 M. J. Daunton, ed., Housing the workers: a comparative history, 1850-1914 Carl H. A. Dassbach, Global enterprises and the world economy: Ford, General Motors, and IBM: the emergence of the transnational enterprise Martin Chick, ed., Governments, industries and markets: aspects of government-industry relations in the UK, Japan, West Germany and the USA since 1945 W. W. Rostow, Theorists of economic growth from David Hume to the present Gerald D. Feldman and Klaus Tenfelde, eds., Workers, Owners and politics in coal mining: an international comparison of industrial relations A. Teichova, M. Lévy-Leboyer, and H. Nussbaum, eds., Historical studies in international corporate business R. T. P. Davenport-Hines, ed., Business in the age of depression and war     

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Susan Toft (ed.), Compensation for Resource Development in Papua New Guinea Shinichi Ichimura, Political Economy of Japanese and Asian Development Myo Thant, Min Tang and Hiroshi Kakazu (eds), Growth Triangles in Asia Mario Rutten and Carol Upadhya (eds), Small Business Entrepreneurs in Asia and Europe Peter Van Diermen, Small Business in Indonesia Sung Gul Hong, The Political Economy of Industrial Policy in East Asia Anand Chandavarkar, Central Banking in Developing Countries Gavin W. Jones and Terence H. Hull (eds), Indonesia Assessment: population and human resources Garry Rodan, Kevin Hewison and Richard Robison (eds), The Political Economy of South-East Asia Maysing H. Yang (ed.), Taiwan's Expanding Role in the International Arena M. Adil Khan, Economic Development, Poverty Alleviation and Governance East Asia Analytical Unit (EAAU), The New ASEANS: Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia & Laos Chris Rowley (ed.), Human Resource Management in the Asia Pacific Region Gavin W. Jones and Pravin Visaria (eds), Urbanization in Large Developing Countries Chris Manning, Indonesian Labour in Transition Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Outlook 1997 and 1998 Jomo K. S. et al., Southeast Asia's Misunderstood Miracle Chris Dixon and David Drakakis-Smith (eds), Uneven Development in South East Asia Tony Fu-Lai Yu, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in Hong Kong Anne Booth, The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Harry J. Waters, China's Economic Development Strategies for the 21st Century Chan Heng Chee (ed.), The New Asia–Pacific Order Chia Siow Yue and Marcello Pacini (eds), ASEAN in the New Asia: issues & trends Chia Siow Yue and Joseph L. H. Tan (eds), ASEAN & EU: forging new linkages and strategic alliances Seiichi Masuyama, Donna Vandenbrink and Chia Siow Yue (eds), Industrial Policies in East Asia Pierre van der Eng, Agricultural Growth in Indonesia     

Book Reviews

Great Britain and Ireland Bruce M. S. Campbell, English seigniorial agriculture Angus J. L.Winchester, The harvest of the hills: rural life in northern England and the Scottish borders Keith Wrightson, Earthly necessities: economic lives in early modern Britain Michael Zell, ed., Early modern Kent, 1540–1640 Peter Clark, ed., The Cambridge urban history of Britain, II: 1540–1840 Tim Meldrum, Domestic service and gender, 1660–1750: life and work in the London household Julian Hoppit, A land of liberty? England, 1689–1727 Jon Stobart and Alastair Owens, eds., Urban fortunes: property and inheritance in the town, 1700–1900 Hilary Young, English porcelain, 1745–95: its makers, design, marketing and consumption Joan Lane, A social history of medicine: health, healing and disease in England, 1750–1950 Irene Maver, Glasgow David Brooke, ed., The diary of William Mackenzie: the first international railway contractor Matthew Hilton, Smoking in British popular culture, 1800–2000 Donald M. MacRaild and David E. Martin, Labour in British society, 1830–1914 Eric Hopkins, Industrialisation and society: a social history, 1830–1951 R. L. Greenhall, The making of Victorian Salford E. J. T. Collins, ed., The agrarian history of England and Wales, VII: 1850–1914 Royden J. Harrison, The life and times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858–1905: the formative years Anne Hardy, Health and medicine in Britain since 1860 Michael Moss, J. Forbes Munro, and Richard H. Trainor, University, city and state: the University of Glasgow since 1870 General David J. Mattingly and John Salmon, eds., Economies beyond agriculture in the classical world R. I. Moore, The first European revolution, c. 970–1215 Sandra Cavallo and Lyndan Warner, eds., Widowhood in medieval and early modern Europe Ross B. Emmett, ed., Great bubbles: reactions to the South Sea Bubble, the Mississippi scheme and the tulip mania affair B. W. De Vries, Of mettle and metal: from court Jews to world‐wide industrialists Thomas Thorburn, The economics of transport: the Swedish case, 1780–1980 Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel, eds., A population history of North America David Eltis, Stephen D. Behrendt, David Richardson, and Herbert S. Klein, eds., The trans‐Atlantic slave trade: a database on CD‐Rom Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman, eds., The Cambridge economic history of the United States, II: the long nineteenth century Russell Johnston, Selling themselves: the emergence of Canadian advertising Amiya Kumar Bagchi, ed., Economy and organization: Indian institutions under the neoliberal regime Robert Bickers and Christian Henriot, eds., New frontiers: imperialism's new communities in east Asia, 1842–1953 Carl Mosk, Japanese industrial history: technology, urbanization, and economic growth Mikio Sumiya, ed., A history of Japanese trade and industry policy David R. Meyer, Hong Kong as a global metropolis Silvia Marzagalli and Hubert Bonin, eds., Négoce, ports et océans, XVIe–XXe siècles: mélanges offerts à Paul Butel Pier Angelo Toninelli, ed., The rise and fall of state‐owned enterprise in the western world Rosa‐Maria Gelpi and François Julien‐Labruyère, The history of consumer credit doctrines and practices David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee, Paying with plastic: the digital revolution in buying and borrowing Israel M. Kirzner, The driving force of the market: essays in Austrian economics     

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Books reviewed: Peasants, merchants, and markets: inland trade in medieval England, R. H. Britnell Controlling misbehaviour in England, 1370-1600,John Walter The new Cambridge medieval history, VII: c. 1415- c.1500, David Nicholas Metropolitan communities: trade guilds, identity and change in early modern London, Paul Griffiths Albion ascendant: English history, 1660-1815, Trevor Griffiths Cheshire cheese and farming in the north west in the 17th and 18th centuries, Steve Caunce Some British empiricists in the social sciences, 1650-1900, A. W. Coats From family firms to corporate cap-talism: essays in business and industrial history in honour of Peter Mathias, Julian Hoppit Charity, philanthropy and reform: from the 1690s to 1850, Pamela Sharpe The mid-Victorian generation, 1846-1886, Duncan Bbythell Morality and the market in Victorian Britain, Paul Johnson Change, continuity and class: labour in British society, 1850-1920, Joseph Melling Speaking for the people: party, language and popular politics in England, 1867-1914, Tony Adams Reconstructing women’s wartime lives: discourse and subjectivity in oral histories of the Second World War, Penny Starns Capitalism in contention: business leaders and political economy in modern Britain, W. R. Garside Selected cliometric studies on German economic history, Catherine R. Schenk The economic aspects of Spanish imperialism in America, 1492-1810, Kenneth Morgan Corsairing to commerce: Maltese merchants in XVIII century Spain, Peter Earle Trade, traders and the ancient city, Philip De Souza Urban Europe, 1500-1700, Catherine Smith European economies since the Second World War, Derek H. Aldcroft The bondsman’s burden: an economic analysis of the common law of Southern slavery, W. M. Mathew Politics and property rights: the closing of the open range in the postbellum South, Gavin Wright Bold relief: institutional politics and the origins of modern American social policy, Julian Zelizer The money interest and the public interest: American monetary thought, 1920-1970, Anne Mayhew Missionaries and managers: American influences on European management education, 1945-60, Robert R. Locke Big money crime: fraud and politics in the saving and loan crisis, Geofrey T. Mills Transatlantic images and perceptions: Germany and America since 1776, R. A. Burchell Desegregating the dollar: African-American consumerism in the twentieth century, Rick Halpern The American finances of the Spanish empire: royal income and expenditure in colonial Mexico, Peru and Bolivia, 1680-1809, Luis Jauregui Slavery and colonial rule in French West Africa, A. J. H. Latham Commodity and exchange in the Mongol empire: a cultural history of Islamic textiles, P. A. Andrews The trading crowd: an ethnography of the Shanghai stock market, W. A. Thomas Environmental politics in Japan: networks of power and protest, Kenneth D. Brown Rice: the primary commodity, Pierre Van Der Eng People, land and time: an historical introduction to the relations between landscape, culture and environment, Grenville Astill Industrialization and development: a comparative analysis, J. R. Ward Durable inequality, Rodney Lowe Tracking the agricultural revolution in England, Robert C. Allen English servants and their employers during the eighteenth and nineteenth Centuries, Leonard Schwarz British incomes circa 1800, T.V. Jackson Principals and agents: the activities of the Crown Agents for the colonies, 1880-1914, David Sunderland The rise of interlocking directorates in imperial Germany, Caroline Fohlin Agricultural support policies in a small open economy: New Zealand in the 1920s, G.A. Fleming     

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Great Britain And Ireland S. H. Rigby, A medieval mercantile community: the Grocers’ Company and the politics and trade of London, 1000-1485 Peter Clark, The history of an English borough: Stratford-upon-Avon, 1196-1996 Donald Woodward, The new draperies in the Low Countries and England, 1300-1800 J. R. Wordie, Alternative agriculture: a history from the Black Death to the present day Robert Tittler, English counties and public building, 1650-1830 Michael Turner, Parliamentary enclosure in England: an introduction to its causes, incidence and impact, 1750-1850 Jeremy Gregory, Aspects of the Georgian church: visitation studies of the diocese of York, 1761-1776 Richard Whatmore, Progress, poverty and population: re-reading Condorcet, Godwin and Malthus R. G. Wilson, The diary of Robert Sharp of South Cave: life in a Yorkshire village, 1812-1837 Peter Cain, Free trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946 John Sheail, A history of water in modern England and Wales Kenneth D. Brown, Religion, business and wealth in modern Britain Penny Starns, Labour, social policy and the welfare state John F. Wilson, Finance in the age of the corporate economy Peter Howlett, Governance, industry and labour markets in Britain and France: the modernising state in the mid-twentieth century General Sitta Von Reden, Warriors into traders: the power of the market in early Greece Christopher Dyer, The growth of the medieval city: from late antiquity to the early fourteenth century; idem, The later medieval city, 1300-1500 Colin Heywood, Burgundy to Champagne: the wine trade in early modern France Hugh Clout, The brandy trade under the ancien regime: regional specialisation in the Charente David Ormrod, The first modern economy: success, failure, and perseverance of the Dutch economy, 1500-1815 Ted Wilson, Merchants, bankers, middlemen: the Amsterdam money market during the first half of the 19th century Michael Wintle, The economic history of the Netherlands, 1914-1995: a small open economy in the ‘long’ twentieth century Henry Roseveare, From the North Sea to the Baltic: essays in commercial, monetary and agrarian history, 1500-1800 J. K. J. Thomson, State corporatism and proto-industry: the Württemberg Black Forest, 1580-1797 Alan Dyer, Urban decline in early modern Germany: Schwäbisch Hall and its region, 1650-1750 Michael Palairet, Rebuilding the financial system in central and eastern Europe, 1918-1994 Catherine R. Schenk, Monetary standards and exchange rates A. Slaven , European enterprise: strategies of adaptation and renewal in the twentieth century John J. Mccusker, Tobacco in the Atlantic trade: the Chesapeake, London and Glasgow, 1675-1775 John Killick, Trading beyond the mountains: the British fur trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843 Timothy J. Lockley, From Calabar to Carter’s Grove: the history of a Virginia slave community S. J. Kleinberg, Civic wars: democracy and public life in the American city during the nineteenth century Arni Sverrisson, Endless novelty: specialty production and American industrialization, 1865-1925 Gary Herrigel, Steel phoenix: the fall and rise of the US steel industry Peter Coates, Wetlands of the American Midwest: a historical geography of changing attitudes Robert G. Greenhill, Studies in the history of Latin American economic thought Christopher J. Napier, The development of accounting in an inter-national context: a festschrift in honour of R. H. Parker     

Fiscal policy in an optimizing model with finite lives and endogenous labour supply

Summary In this paper the impact of balanced budget, money-financed and bond-financed fiscal policy is analyzed, in the short run as well as in the long run. The analysis is based on an optimizing model of a closed economy that displays perfect foresight of agents and sticky wages and prices. Consumers have finite planning horizons modeled according to the Blanchard-Yaari framework. Labour supply is endogenized by including leisure in the utility function. Labour scarcity is also allowed for. The results are illustrated by numerical simulation experiments.List of symbols A financial wealth - B stock of bonds - c actual consumption - c _d demand for consumption goods - c _s supply of consumption goods - D dividend - E equity - F government budget deficit - g government expenditures - H human wealth - i actual investment (excluding installation costs) - i _d demand for investment goods (excluding installation costs) - j actual investment - j _d demand for investment goods - j _s supply of investment goods - k capital stock - l actual employment - l _d notional demand for labour - l _k Keynesian demand for labour - l _s supply of labour - M money stock - P _l nominal wage - P _y price - q Tobin'sq - R nominal interest rate - T lump-sum tax - u instantaneous utility - U lifetime utility - W total wealth - y actual production - y _d demand for goods - y _l labour constrained supply of goods - y _s notional supply of goods     

Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN Zvi Razi . Life, Marriage and Death in a Medieval Parish. Economy, Society and Demography in Halesowen, 1270–1400. Carl J. Dahlman . The Open Field System and Beyond. A. Hassell Smith , Gillian M. Baker , and R. W. Kenny (Eds.). The Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey, Vol. I, 1556–1577. Gordon Marshall . Presbyteries and Profits. Calvinism and the Development of Capitalism in Scotland, 1560–1707. R. H. Campbell . The Rise and Fall of Scottish Industry, 1707–1939. Peter Roebuck . Yorkshire Baronets, 1640–1760. Families, Estates and Fortunes. Michael Turner . English Parliamentary Enclosure. Dennis R. Mills . Lord and Peasant in Nineteenth Century Britain. William Petersen . Malthus. Hugh Cunningham . Leisure in the Industrial Revolution c. 1780-c. 1880. Maxine Berg . The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy, 1815–1848. Paul Mc Hu GH. Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform. P. J. Cain . Economic Foundations of British Overseas Expansion, 1815–1914. Francois Béadarida . A Social History of England, 1851–1975. Malcolm Elliott . Victorian Leicester. Jean Robin . Elmdon: Continuity and change in a North- West Essex Village, 1861–1964. Patrick Joyce . Work, Society and Politics: The Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England. Jerry White . Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East End Tenement Block, 1887–1920. Douglas Antony Farnie . The Manchester Ship Canal and the Rise of the Port of Manchester, 1894–1975. Donald Moggridge (Ed.). The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes. Vol. XXV: Activities 1940–1944. Shaping the Post-War World: the Clearing Union. Donald Moggridge (Ed.). The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XXVI. Activities, 1941–1946. Shaping the Post-War World. Bretton Woods and Reparations. Evan Ira Farber (Ed.). Combined Retrospective Index to Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals, 1886–1974. Cinzio Violante . Economia, società, istituzioni a Pisa net Medioevo. Michel Balard . La Romanie Génoise (XII^e-debut du XV^c siécle). David Herlihy . Cities and Society in Medieval Italy. Samuel H. Baron . Muscovite Russia. Paul Bushkovitch . The Merchants of Moscow, 1580–1650. Vicente Péarez Moreda . Las crisis de mortalidad en la España interior (siglos XVI-XIX). N. J. G. Pounds. An Historical Geography of Europe, 1500–1840. Immanuel Wallerstein . The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600–1750. A. Verhulst and C. Vandenbroeke (Eds.). Landbouwproduktiviteit in Vlaanderen en Brabant, 14de-18de Eeuw. Productivité agricole en Flandre et en Brabant 14e-18e siècle. Economisch- en Sociaal-Historisch. Jaarboek, Vol. XLII. Robert Louis Stein . The French Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century. An Old Regime Business. Sidney Ratner , James H. Soltow and Richard Sylla . The Evolution of the American Economy. William L. Marr and Donald G. Paterson . Canada: An Economic History. John Graham Smith . The Origins and Early Development of the Heavy Chemical Industry in France. K. N. Chaudhuri and Clive J. Dewey (Eds.). Economy and Society: Essays in Indian Economic and Social History. Malcolm Lyall Darling . The Punjab Peasant in Prosperity and Debt. Leon Swartzberg . The North Indian Peasant Goes to Market. Alois Mosser . Die Industrieaktiengesellschaft in Österreich, 1880–1913. James P. Johnson . The Politics of Soft Coal: The Bituminous Indus try from World War I Through TheNew Deal. Gianni Toniolo . L'economia dell’Italia fascista. Eugene Zaleski . Stalinist Planning for Economic Growth, 1933–1952. Thomas G. Rawski . China's Transition to Industrialism: Producer Goods and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century. R. H. Sabot . Economic Development and Urban Migration: Tanzania, 1900–1971.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Eric Gordon, Eynsham Abbey, 1005-1228 M. W. Greenslade, ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England: a history of the county of Stafford, xiv: the city of Lichfield Richard Holt and Gervase Rosser, The English medieval town: a reader in English urban history, 1200-1540 Frank Musgrove, The north of England Richard S. Smith, Early coal-mining around Nottingham, 1500-1650 Barbara English, The great landowners of east Yorkshire, 1530-1910 David Levine and Keith Wrightson, The making of an industrial society: Whickham, 1560-1765 Phyllis Hembry, The English spa, 1560-1815: a social history Theodore Koditschek, Class formation and industrial society: Bradford, 1750-1850 Jane Fiske, ed., The Oakes diaries: business, politics and the family in Bury St Edmunds, 1778-1827. I. Introduction: lames Oakes’diaries, 1778-1800 James E. Bradley, Religion, revolution and English radicalism: non-conformity in eighteenth-century politics and society John Belchem, Industrialization and the working class: the English experience, 1750-1900 Jeffrey G. Williamson, Coping with city growth during the British industrial revolution Clark Nardinelli, Child labour and the industrial revolution Roderick Floud, Kenneth Wachter, and Annabel Gregory, Height, health and history: nutritional status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980 Alex Mercer, Disease, mortality and population in transition: epidemiological-demographic change in England since the eighteenth century as part of a global phenomenon John E. Archer, By a flash and a scare: arson, animal maiming, and poaching in East Anglia. 1815-1870 Michael Hunter and Robert Thorne, eds., Change at King's Cross R. J. Morris, Class, sect and party: the making of the British middle class. Leeds, 1820-1850 Cynthia Brown, Northampton, 1835-1985: shoe town, new town Dieter Ziegler, trans. Eileen Martin, Central bank, peripheral industry: the Bank of England in the provinces, 1826-1913 David McCrone, Stephen Kendrick, and Pat Straw, ed., The making of Scotland: nation, culture and social change Edgar Jones, A history of GKN, 2: the growth of the business, 1918-1945 G. H. Martin and Peter Spufford, eds., The records of the nation: the Public Record Office, 1838-1988: the British Record Society, 1888-1988 Harvey J. Kaye and Keith McClelland, eds., E. P. Thompson: critical perspectives GENERAL Richard Duncan-Jones, Structure and scale in the Roman economy Marc Boone, Geld en macht: de Gentse stadsfinancien en de Bourgondische staatsvorming, 1384-1453 Larry Neal, The rise of financial capitalism: international capital markets in the age of reason Lars T. Lih, Bread and authority in Russia, 1914-1921 Roger Pethybridge, One step backwards, two steps forward: Soviet society and politics under the new economic policy William Moskoff, The bread of affliction: the food supply in the USSR during World War II Georges Sabagh, ed., The modern economic and social history of the Middle East in its world context M. W. Daly, Imperial Sudan: the Anglo-Egyptian condominium, 1934-1956 Zbigniew A. Konczacki, Jane L. Parpart, and Timothy M. Shaw, eds., Studies in the economic history of southern Africa, I: the Front-Line States David J. Jeremy, Technology and power in the early American cotton industry: James Montgomery, the second edition of his‘Cotton manufacture’(1840), and the Justitia’controversy about relative power costs Tom Kemp, The climax of capitalism: the U.S. economy in the twentienth century Frank Griffith Dawson, The first Latin American debt crisis: The City of London and the 1822-25 loan bubble Mauricio Font, Coffee, contention, and change in the making of modern Brazil Dennis L. McNamara, The colonial origins of Korean enterprise, 1910-1945 Harold Blakemore, From the Pacific to La Paz: the Antofagasta Lawrence I. Conrad, ed., The formation and perception of the modern Arab world: studies by Marwan R. Buheiry M. Mann, ed., The rise and decline of the nation state Geoffrey Jones, ed., Banks as multinationals Bruna Ingrao & Giorgio Israel     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: AYMARD, M. (ed.) Dutch Capitalism and World Capitalism. COBBE, J. H. Governments and Mining Companies in Developing Countries. FRANK, A. G. Reflections on the World Economic Crisis. HAHN, F. Money and Inflation (Mitsui Lectures in Economics). HIBBS, J.Transport without Politics…? A study of the scope for the competitive markets in road, rail and air. HICKS, Sir John. Collected Essays on Economic Theory. Volume I: Wealth and Welfare; and Volume II: Money, Interest and Wager. I.L.O. Multinationals Training Practices and Development. I.L.O. Employment Effects of Multinational Enterprises in Developing Countries. NATTRASS, Jill.The South African Economy. Its growth and change. NSEKELA, A. J. Southern Africa – Toward Economic Liberation. SAUNDERS, C. T. East-West-South. Economic Interactions between Three Worlds.     

Book Reviews

Lewis, Carenza, Mitchell-Fox, Patrick and Dyer, Christopher Village, hamlet and field: Changing medieval settlements in central England Dobson, R.B. Church and society in the medieval north of England Gervers, Michael (ed.) The cartulary of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem in England, 2: Prima Camera Goldberg, P.J.P. (trans. and ed.) Women in England, c. 1275–1525: documentary sources Griffiths, Paul, Fox, Adam and Hindle, Steve (eds.) The experience of authority in early modern England Gowing, Laura Domestic dangers: women, words and sex in early modern London Hunt, Margaret R. The middling sort: commerce, gender, and the family in England, 1680–1780 Whatley, Christopher A. The industrial revolution in Scotland Knowles, Anne Kelly Calvinists incorporated: Welsh immigrants on Ohio’s industrial frontier Gurney, Peter Co-operative culture and the politics of consumption in England 1870–1930 Riley, James C. Sick, not dead: the health of British workingmen during the mortality decline Beik, William Urban protest in seventeenth-century France: the culture of retribution Grouzet, François Britain, France and international commerce: from Louis XIV to Victoria Green, Nancy L. Ready-to-wear and ready-to-work: a century of industry and immigrants in Paris and New York Biggs, Lindy The rational factory: architecture, technology, and work in America’s age of mass production Roy, William G. Socializing capital: the rise of the large industrial corporation in America Clarence-Smith, William Gervase (ed.) Cocoa pioneer fronts since 1800: the role of smallholders, planters and merchants Firmin-Sellers, Kathryn The Transformation of property rights in the Gold Coast Lee, James and Campbell, Cameron Fate and fortune in rural China: social organisation and population behaviour in Liaoning, 1774–1873 Hanley, Susan B. Everyday things in premodern Japan: the hidden legacy of material culture ? Eichengreen, Barry Globalizing capital: a history of the international monetary system