Books

Book reviewed in this article: Just Capital: The Liberal Economy, Adair Turner A Liberating Economic Journey: Post‐Communist Transition. Essays in Honour of Ljubo Sirc, Andrzej Brzeski1 and Jan Winiecki (eds.) The Bow Group, A History, James Barr Rethinking Economic Behaviour: How the Economy Really Works, David Simpson Injecting Incentives into the Solution of Social and Environmental Problems, Ronnie Horesh Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience, Ben S. Bernanke et al. Mail @ the Millennium. Will the Postal Service Go Private? Edward L. Hudgins (ed.) Risky Behavior Among Youths: An Economic Analysis, Jonathon Gruber (ed.) Calculation and Coordination: Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy, Peter J. Boettke     

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Book reviewed in this article: Austrian Economics ECONOMIC THOUGHT BEFORE ADAM SMITH: AN AUSTRIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT, Vol.I CLASSICAL ECONOMICS: AN AUSTRIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT, Vol.II Murray N.Rothbard AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS IN AMERICA: THE MIGRATION OF A TRADITION Karen I.Vaughn THE MARKET PROCESS; ESSAYS IN CONTEMPORARY AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitko (eds.) CLASSICS IN AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS Israel M. Kirzner (ed.) THE ELGAR COMPANION TO AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS Peter J. Boettke (ed.) Environmental Economics SMALL IS STUPID: BLOWING THE WHISTLE ON THE GREENS Wilfred Beckerman RISK John Adams SCARCITY OR ABUNDANCE? A DEBATE ON THE ENVIRONMENT Norman Myers and Julian L. Simon Money and Banking THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF CARTELIZATION IN BRITISH BANKING Martin Davies MONEY, CREDIT AND ASSET PRICES Gordon Pepper HISTORY OF BANKING 1050–1850 Forrest H. Capie (ed.) A HISTORY OF MONEY: FROM AD 800 John F. Chown THE FUTURE OF CENTRAL BANKING: THE TERCENTENARY SYMPOSIUM OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND Forrest Capie, Charles Goodhart, Stanley Fischer and Norbert Schnadt Economic Policy THE STATE WE'RE IN Will Hutton CAPITALISM WITH A HUMAN FACE Samuel Brittan THE AGE OF DIMINISHED EXPECTATIONS Paul Krugman PEDDLING PROSPERITY: ECONOMIC SENSE AND NONSENSE IN THE AGE OF DIMINISHED EXPECTATIONS Paul Krugman AMERICAN ECONOMIC POLICY IN THE 1980S Martin Feldstein (ed.) THEORIES OF THE MIXED ECONOMY David Reisman (ed.) Taxation TAX PROGRESSIVITY AND INCOME INEQUALITY Joel B. Slemrod (ed.) THE POWER TO DESTROY: A STUDY OF THE BRITISH TAX SYSTEM D.R. Myddelton Industry, Finance & Labour INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS: ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES (2nd Edition) Paul R. Ferguson and Glenys J. Ferguson GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND INVESTMENT STRATEGIES Richard J. Bauer Jr. TRADING ON THE EDGE: NEURAL, GENETIC, AND FUZZY SYSTEMS FOR CHAOTIC FINANCIAL MARKETS Guido J. Deboeck (ed.) THE MARKET FOR TRAINING Robert McNabb and Keith Whitfield (eds.) Medicine & Health THE DEATH OF HUMANE MEDICINE AND THE RISE OF COERCIVE HEALTHISM Petr Skrabanek PREVENTIONITIS: THE EXAGGERATED CLAIMS OF HEALTH PROMOTION James Le Fanu (ed.) THE TRANS FORMATION OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL DEMOCRACY Herbert Kitschelt SOCIAL DEMOCRACY SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND RATIONAL CHOICE: THE SCANDINAVIAN EXPERIENCE AND BEYOND Henry Milner LOST OPPORTUNITY: WHY ECONOMIC REFORMS IN RUSSIA HAVE NOT WORKED Marshall I. Goldman Europe THE ECONOMICS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: POLICY AND ANALYSIS M.J. Artis and N. Lee (eds.)     

SHORTER REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Anselin, L. and R.J.G.M. Florax (eds.) 1995: New directions in spatial econometrics. Herbert, David T. (ed.) 1995: Heritage, tourism and society. Baldassare, Mark (ed.) 1994: The Los Angeles riots: lessons for the urban future. Wacquant, Loic J.D. (1994) The new urban color line: the state and the fate of the ghetto in postfordist America. In C. Calhoun (ed.), Social theory and the politics of identity Leresche, Jean-Philippe and René Levy (eds.) 1995: La Suisse et la coopération transfrontalière: repli ou redéploiement?     

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Books reviewed: Bernard Jouve and Christian Lefèvre, (eds.) Villes, métropoles. Les nouveaux territoires du politique Sheridan Bartlett, Roger Hart, David Satterthwaite, Ximena de la Barra and Alfredo Missair, Cities for children: children's rights, poverty and urban management Daniel J. Monti Jr., The American city: a social & cultural history Andrew E.G. Jonas and David Wilson, (eds.) The urban growth machine: critical perspectives two decades later Dieter Dettke, (ed.) The challenges of globalization for Germany's social democracy: a political agenda for the 21st century Gösta Esping‐Andersen, Social foundations of postindustrial economies Michael Mortimore and William M. Adams Working the Sahel: environment and society in northern Nigeria> Stefan Hedlund, Russia's ‘market’ economy. A bad case of predatory capitalism Alexander Reichl, Reconstructing Times Square: politics and culture in urban development David Byrne, Social exclusion OECD, The response of higher education institutions to regional needs Felix Driver and David Gilbert, (eds.) Imperial cities: landscape, display and identity     

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Taxing Capital Income in the European Union: Issues and Options for Reform. Sijbren Cnossen (ed.)
Consumption Tax Policy and the Taxation of Capital Income Raymond G. Batina and Toshihiro Ihori
From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967. David T. Beito
Currency Crises. Paul Krugman (ed.)
Law and Social Norms. Eric A. Posner     

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Harvey, David, Justice, Nature & the Geography of Difference Jeffrey, Charlie, (ed.) The Regional Dimension of the European Union. Towards a Third Level in Europe? Keating, Michael and Jeffrey Loughlin (eds.)The Political Economy of Regionalism Le Galès, Patrick and Christian Lequesne, (eds.) Les Paradoxes des régions en Europe Grabner, Gernot and David Stark, (eds.) Restructuring networks in post-socialism. Legacies, linkages and localities Taylor, Ian, Karen Evans and Penny Fraser, A Tale of Two Cities: Global Change, Local Feeling and Everyday Life in the North of England. A Study in Manchester and Sheffield Caulfield, Jon and Linda Peake, (eds.) City Lives and City Forms. Critical Research and Canadian Urbanism Turnbull, Geoffrey K., Urban Consumer Theory Barringer, Herbert, Robert W. Gardner and Michael Levin Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States Hardy, Sally, Mark Hart, Albrechts Louis and Anastasios Katos An Enlarged Europe: Regions in Competition?     

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Harloe, Michael The people's home? Social rented housing in Europe & America Hitz, Keil, Lehrer, Ronneberger, Schmid and Wolff (eds.) Capitales Fatales: Urbanisierung und Politik in den Finanzmetropolen Frankfurt und Zürich Ascher, François (ed.) Le logement en questions Shapira, Philip, Ian Masser and David W. Edgington (eds.) Planning for cities and regions in Japan     

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Book Reviewed in this article: CHANGING COURSES A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT Stephan Schmidheiny LAND DELIVERY FOR LOW INCOME GROUPS IN THIRD WORLD CITIES Robert-Jan Baken and Jan van der Linden Avebury WHAT's NEW IN ECONOMICS? John Maloney STEADY STATE ECONOMICS (Second Edition with new essays) Herman E. Daly BUSINESS ETHICS: A EUROPEAN CASEBOOK John Donaldson STRUCTURE, CONDUCT AND PERFORMANCE Leonard W. Weiss (David B. Audretsch and Hideki Yamawaki - Eds.) THE COST OF EUROPE Patrick Minford (Ed.) ENERGY DEMAND: EVIDENCE AND EXPECTATIONS David Hawdon (Ed.) THE INFORMAL ECONOMY IN FRANCE Jan Windebank Avebury     

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Books reviewed: Held, David, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton Global transformations: politics, economics and culture Lin, George C.S. Red capitalism in South China Keyder, Ç. (ed.) Istanbul: between the global and the local JGlasser, Irene and Rae Bridgman Braving the street: the anthropology of homelessness Vanhove, Norbert Regional policy: a European approach Downey, John and Jim McGuigan (eds.) Technocities Malbon, Ben Clubbing: dancing, ecstasy and vitality Hedlund, Stefan Russia’s `market’ economy. A bad case of predatory capitalism Chavez, John R. Eastside landmark: a history of the East Los Angeles Community Union 1968–1993 Butler, Ruth and Hester Parr (eds) Mind and body spaces: geographies of illness, impairment and disability Germaine, Annick and Damaris Rose Montréal: the quest for a metropolis Narotzky, Susana New directions in economic anthropology     

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Book reviews in this article:
HAYEK'S CHALLENGE: ANINTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY OF F. A. HAYEK Bruce Caldwell
TAX REFORMIN CANADA Herbert Grubel (ed.)
YOU CAN'T SAY THAT: THE GROWING THRE AT TO CIVIL LIBERTIES FROM ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAWS David E. Bernstein
PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE DARK: THE SPECIAL ADVISER IN BRITISH POLITICS Andrew Blick
AUTOCRATIC, DEMOCRATIC, AND OPTIMAL GOVERNMENT: FISCAL CHOICES AND ECONOMIC OUTCOMES William A. Niskanen
INFLATION-INDEXED SECURITIES: BONDS, SWAPS & OTHER DERIVATIVES (2nd edn.) Mark Deacon, Andrew Derry and Dariush Mirfendereski     

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Book reviews in this article:
THE GREAT DIVESTITURE: EVALUATING THE WELFARE IMPACT OF THE BRITISH PRIVATIZATIONS 1979–1997 Massimo Florio
GORDON BROWN Tom Bower
ADAPT OR DIE: THE SCIENCE, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE Kendra Okonksi (ed.)
CHOICE: THE BEST OF REASON Nick Gillespie (ed.)
THE STRANGE DEATH OF MORAL BRITAIN Christie Davies
POLITICAL CHOICE IN BRITAIN Harold Clarke, David Sanders, Marianne Stewart and Paul Whiteley
THE NOT SO WILD, WILD WEST: PROPERTY RIGHTS ON THE FRONTIER Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill     

BOOKS REVIEWS

Books Reviews is this articles Fineman, Stephen, White Collar Unemployment—Impact and Stress. Nelson, Daniel. Frederick W. Taylor and the Rise of Scientific Management. Reason, P. and Rowan, J. (Eds). Human Inquiry: A Sourcebook of New Paradigm Research. McLean, Adrian, Sims, David, Mangham, Iain and Tuffield, David. Organization Development in Transition: Evidence of an Evolving Profession. Whitley, Richard, Thomas, Alan and Marceau, Jane. Masters of Business? Business Schools and Business Graduates in Britain and France. Thomson, Andrew and Warner, Malcolm (Eds). The Behavioural Sciences and Industrial Relations. Watts, A. G., Super, Donald E., and Kidd, Jennifer M. Career Development in Britain. Cook, John D., Hepworth, Susan J., Wall, Toby D. and Warr, Peter B., The Experience of Work A Compendium and Review of 249 Measures and Their Use. Singleton, W. T. (Ed.) Management Skills. Zammuto, Raymond F. Assessing Organizational Effectiveness: Systems Change, Adaptation and Strategy. de Wolff, C. J., Shimmin, Sylvia and Montmollin, Maurice. Conflicts and Contradictions: Work Psychologists in Europe. Eilon, Samuel. Management Control.     

Books in Review

Book reviewed in this article:
THE RISE AND FALL OF FLEET STREET Charles Wintour
LIMITING EXCHANGE RATE FLEXIBILITY: THE EUROPEAN MONETARY SYSTEM Francesco Giavazzi & Alberto Giovannini
ROGERNOMICS: RESHAPING NEW ZEALAND'S ECONOMY Simon Walker (Ed.)
WORKING FOR PROFIT: THE SOCIAL ORGANISATION OF CALCULATION IN AN ENTREPRENEURIAL FIRM R. J. Anderson, J. A. Hughes & W. W. Sharrock
MACROECONOMIC THEORY AND STABILIZATION POLICY Manchester University Press
FISCAL POLICY: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF CEDRIC SANDFORD David Collard (ed.)
EQUALITY IN LIBERTY AND JUSTICE Antony Flew
PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS: on the Scope of Reason in Economic Inquiry Subroto Roy     

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David Coates and John Hillard (eds) UK Economic Decline: Key Texts Vaughan-Whitead, D. et al. Workers' Financial Participation – East–West Experiences Paul Thompson and David McHugh Work Organisations – A Critical Introduction (second edition) Sue Ledwith and Fiona Colgan (eds) Women in Organisation s– Challenging Gender Politics Harry Scarborough (ed.) The Management of Expertise John Storey (ed.) Blackwell Cases in Human Resource and Change Management Jack Eaton Globalization and Human Resource Management in the Airline Industry Pamela Sugiman Labour's Dilemma: The Gender Politics of Auto Workers in Canada, 1937–1979 Jeff Torrington The Devil's Carousel John Solomos and Les Back Race, Politics and Social Change     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Dickens, Peter 1992: Society and nature: towards a green social theory. Katznelson, Ira 1992: Marxism and the city. Massey, Doreen, Paul Quintas and David Wield 1991: High-tech fantasies: science parks in society, science and space. Matsumoto, Koji 1991: The rise of the Japanese corporate system. Mollenkopf, John H. and Manuel Castells (eds) 1991: Dual city: restructuring New York. Norton, Alan and K. Novy (eds) 1990: Soziale Wohnpolitik der 90er Jahre. Sayer, Andrew and Richard Walker 1992: The new social economy: reworking the division of labour. Smith, David M. (ed.) 1992: The apartheid city and beyond: urbanization and social change in South Africa. Drakakis-Smith, David (ed.) 1992: Urban and regional change in Southern Africa.     

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Books reviewed: Stuart Aitken Geographies of young people: the morally contested spaces of identity Akel Ismail Kahera Deconstructing the American mosque: space, gender, and aesthetics Eric Klinenberg Heatwave: a social autopsy of disaster in Chicago Louise Chawla (ed.) Growing up in an urbanising world Richard Tomlinson, Robert A. Beauregard, Lindsay Bremner and Xolela Mangcu (eds.) Emerging Johannesburg: perspectives on the postapartheid city Bent Flyvbjerg Making social science matter David J. Myers and Henry A. Dietz (eds.) Capital city politics in Latin America: democratization and empowerment Dennis R. Judd (ed.) The infrastructure of play Dominique Malaquais Architecture, pouvoir et dissidence au Cameroun Lydia Morris Managing migration. Civic stratification and migrants' rights     

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Books review in this article: Managing Performance Appraisal Systems Gordon C. Anderson The Handbook of Human Resource Management Brian Towers (Editor) Principles of Human Resource Management David Goss Human Resource Management: Key Concepts and Skills P.B. Beaumont Designing Organizations: A Decision Perspective Richard Butler Employment Relations: Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management In Australia Margaret Gardner and Gill Palmer Human Resource Management In Europe Shaun Tyson, Peter Lawrence, Phillipe Poirson, Luigi Manzolini and Ceferi Soler Vicente (Editors) Managing Learning In Organizations D. Casey     

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Book reviewed in this article: Macmillan Directory of Multinationals (two volumes) D. C. Stafford and R. H. A. Purkis (eds.) Small Business and Society David Goss The Re-emergence of Small Enterprises W. Sengenberger, G. W. Loveman & M. J. Piore (eds) The British Trade Union Directory W. Maksymiw, Ed. Trade Union Policy and the Unemployed Paul Lewis Managing to Discriminate David L. Collinson, David Knights and Margaret Collinson Butterworths Employment Law Handbook , (5th Ed.) Peter Wallington Employer's Liability at Common Law , (11th Ed.) John Munkman Bowers on Employment Law J. Bowers Butterworths Employment Law Guide C. Osman, (Ed.) Work Organisations Paul Thompson and David McHugh The Impact of Economic Democracy Profit-Sharing and Employee Shareholding Schemes Michael Poole and Glenville Jenkins Women in the Japanese Workplace Mary Saso     

BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article: THE AIRPORT BUSINESS Rigas Doganis A THEORY OF HUMAN NEED Len Doyal and Ian Gough THE COLLECTED WRITINGS OF PAUL DAVIDSON: VOL.1: MONEY & EMPLOYMENT; VOL.2: INFLATION, OPEN ECONOMIES & RESOURCES Louise Davidson (Ed) URBAN TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS Kenneth A. Small TRASHING THE PLANET: HOW SCIENCE CAN HELP US DEAL WITH ACID RAIN, DEPLETION OF THE OZONE AND NUCLEAR WASTE Dixy Lee Ray with Lou Guzzo MONEY, INFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENTS: THE ROLE OF MONEY IN THE ECONOMY David Gowland RETHINKING THE ENVIRONMENT Russell Lewis et al THE METHODOLOGY OF ECONOMIC MODEL BUILDING: METHODOLOGY AFTER SAMUELSON Lawrence A. Boland REFLECTIONS; SELECTED WRITINGS AND SPEECHES OF ENOCH POWELL Rex Collings (Ed.) ECONOMETRICS: ALCHEMY OR SCIENCE? David F. Hendry THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND PUBLIC POLICY, 1941–1958 John Fforde TRUTH VERSUS PRECISION IN ECONOMICS Thomas Mayer ECONOMICS OF MONETARY INTEGRATION Paul de Grauwe     

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Books reviewed: Biorcio, Roberto La Padania Promessa Cartocci, Roberto Fra Lega e Chiesa Diamanti, Ilvo La Lega: Geografia, Storia e Sociologia di un nuovo Soggetto Politico Diamanti, Ilvo Il Male del Nord: Lega, Localismo, Secessione Magatti, Mauro Tra Disordine e Scisma Mannheimer, Renato, (ed.) La Lega Lombarda Hebbert, Michael London Mazzette, Antonietta and Giancarlo Rovati (eds.) La Protesta dei ’forti”: Leghe del Nord e Partito Sardo d’Azione Pajetta, Giovanna Il Grande Camaleonte: Episodi, Passioni, Avventure del Leghismo Vicercati, Daniele I Lombardi alla nuova Crociati Veltz, Pierre Mondialism Villes et Territoires: L’economie Archipel Abromeit, Heidrun Democracy in Europe. Legitimising Politics in a Non‐state Polity Dietz, Henry and Gil Shidlo, (eds.) Urban Democratic Elections in Latin America Harrison, Bennett and Marcus Weiss Workforce Development Networks: Community‐based Organizations and Regional Alliances Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis. Race and Inequality in Postwar Detriot Wilford, Rich and Robert L. Miller (eds.) Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism: The Politics of Transition Jones, G.V. and P. Visaria Urbanisation in Large Developing Countries. China, Indonesia, Brazil and India Buiseret, David (eds.) Envisioning the City: Six Studies in Urban Cartography Taylor, Peter J. Modernities: A Geohistorical Interpretation