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ANTONIDES, G. The Lifetime of a Durable Good, An Economic Psychobgxal Approach GREENAWAY, D., HYCLAK, T. and THORNTON, R.J. (eds). Economic Aspects of Regional Trading Arrangements DAHIYA, S.B. Planning Theories and Techniques in India A Critique GUPTA, K.L. Industrialisation and Employment in Developing Countries: A Comparative Study EL-NAGGAR, S. Privatisation and Structural Adjustment in thc Arab Countries DUNNETT. P.J.S. The World Television Industry: An Economic Analysis VAN DUK, J., FOLMER. H., HERZOG, H.W., Schlottmann, A.M. (eds). Migration and Labour Market Adjustment     

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Engle, R. F. and Granger, C. W. (eds). Long-run Economic Relationships: Readings in Cointegration.
Stemp, P. J. (ed.) Saving and Policy. (Centre for Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
Blinder, A. S. Macroeconomics Under Debate.
Patrick, H. with Meissner, L. (eds). Pacific Basin Industries in Distress. Structural Adjustment and Trade Policy in the Nine Industrialized Economies.     

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Balassa. B. Comparative Advantage Trade Policy and Economic Development
Black, F. Business Cycles and Equilibrium
Burgenmeier, B. and Mucchielli, J.L. (eds). Multi-nationals and Europe 1992: Strategies for theFuture
Carlin, W. and Soskice. D. Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain: A Modern Approach to Employment Inflation and the Exchange Rate
Demsetz, H. The Organisation of Economic Activity, Volume I: Ownership Control and the Firm
Dorn, J. and Niskanen, W.A. (eds). Dollars Deficits & Trade
Fitoussi, J. and Phelps, E.S. The Slump in Europe
Goodwin, R.M. Chaoric Economic Dynamics
Jüttner, D. Johannes. International finance and global financial markets
McAfee, R.P. and McMillan, J. Incentives in Government Contracting
McKenzie, L.W. and Zamagni, S. (eds). Value and Capital Fifty Years Later. International Economic Association conference volume no. 94
Schotter, A. Free Market Economics. Second Edition
Soesastro, H. and Pangestu, M. (ed.) Technological Challenge in the Asia-Pacific Economy
Van Brabant, J. Remaking Eastern Europe-On the political economy of transtion. International Studies in Economics and Econometrics     

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Bogomolov, O. T. (ed.) Market Forces in Planned Economies
Guerrieri, P. and Padoan, P. (eds). The Political Economy of European Integration
Hillier, B. The Macroeconomic Debate: Models of [he Closed and Open Economy
Lavoie, D. (ed.) Economics and Hermeneutics
Layard, R., Nickell, S. and Jackman, R. Unemployment
Lipschitz, L. and McDonald, D. (eds). Geman Unification: Economic Issues. Occasional paper 75
Smithin. J. N. Macroeconomics after Thatcher and Reagan.     

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Winters, L. Alan, ed., Foundations of an Open Economy: Trade laws and Institutions for Eastern Europe
Åslund, Anders, ed., Russian-Economic Reform at Risk
Chang, Ha-Joon & Nolan, Peter, eds., The Transformation of the Communist Economies. Against the Mainstream
Faini, Riccardo & Portes, Richard, eds., European Union Trade with Eastern Europe: Adjustment and Opportunities
Howell, John, Understanding Eastern Europe: The Context of Change
Csaba, László, The Capitalist Revolution in Eastern Europe. A Contribution to the Economic Theory of Systemic Change
Boycko, Maxim, Shleifer, Andrei and Vishny, Robert, Privatizing Russia
Hardt, John P. & Kaufman, Richard R., eds., East-Central European Economies in Transition
Jackson, Marvin, Koltay, Jenö & Biesbrouck, Wouter, eds., Unemployment and Evolving Labour Markets in Central and Eastern Europe
Commander, Simon & Coricelli, Fabrizio, eds., Unemployment, Restructuring and the Labor Market in Eastern Europe and Russia     

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Bojö J., Maler, K-G. and Unemo. L. Environment andDevelopmenr An Economic Approach
Luken, R. Efficiency in Environmental Regulorion: A Benefit Cost Analysis of Alternative Approaches.
Siebert, H. (ed.) Environmental Scarcify: The International Dimensionn
Kraus, Willy. Private Businesr in China. Revival between ideology and Pragmarirm.
Pejovich S. The Economics of Property Rights: Towardso Theory of Comparative Systems     

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Fifty Years of Farm Management. By H. C. M. C ase AND D. B. W illiams .
Principles of Economic Policy. By K enneth E. B ouldding .
Economic Development:Theory, History, Policy. By G. M. M eier AND R. E. B aldwin .
The Elements of Accounting. By L. G oldberg AND V. R. H ill .
The Economics of International Migration. Edited by B rinley T homas .
Public Principles of Publica Debt. By J ames M. B uchanan .
The Development of the Soviet Budgetary System. By R. W. D avies .
Problems of the New Commonwealth. By S ir I vor J ennings , K.B.E., Q.C.
The Agricultural Register (New Series). Changes in the Economic Pattern 1956-7.
Economic Models…An Exposition. By E. F. B each .
The National Economic Accounts of the United States…Review, Appraisal and Recommendations. A Report by the National Accounts Review Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research.     

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Chen, Deron, Chinese Firms between Hierarchy and Market
Lapidus, Gail W., ed., The New Russia. Troubled Transformation
Blejer, Mario I. and Coricelli, Fabrizio, eds., The Making of Economic Reform in Eastern Europe: Conversations with Leading Reformers in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic
Gács, J.; Winckler, G., eds., International Trade and Restructuring in Eastern Europe     

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Growth Receiving: Economic Change in World History , by E. L. Jones (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988)
Review of the State Tax System: Tax worm and NSW Economic Development , New South Wales Tax Task Force (NSW Government Printer, Sydney, August 1988)
Incentive Cooperation and Risk Sharing: Economic and Psychological Perspectives on Employment Contacts . by H.F., Nalbantian (Rowman and Littlefield, New Jersey, 1987)
Alternative Systems of Buaivss Organization and Worked Remuneration . by J.E. Meade (Allen & Unwin, London. 1986)
The Costs of Academic Libraries An Econometric Interpretation . by John R. Brockman (Curtain University of Technology, Perth, 1988)
socialism, Economics and Development . by A. Nove (Allen & Unwin, London. 1986).
Stock Market Anomalies , edited by E. Dimson (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988)
The Flow of Funds in Theory and Practice: A Flow-Constrained Approach to Monetary Theory and Policy , by J. Cohen, Financial and Monetary Policy Studies 15 (Kluwer Academic Publishers. Dordrecht, 1987)
Technological Change Development and the Environment Socio-Economic Perspectives , edited by Clem Tisdell and Riyatosh Maitra (Routledge, London, 1988)
Dynamic Economic Analysis , by Milton Harris (Oxford University Press, New York. 1987)
Elements of Econometrics , by J. Kmenta (MacMillan. New York. 1986)
The Theory of International Trade , by J.R. Markusen and J.R. Melvin (Harper & Row, New York 1988)
An Assessment of Agricultural Research Priorities: An International Paspective , by J.S. Davis, P.A. Oram and J.G. Ryan (Australian Centre for International Research, Canberra. 1987)
A History of Economics The Past as the Present , by John Kenneth Galbraith (Hamish Hamilton, London 1987)     

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Economics–Australian Edition . By P. A. S amuelson , K. H ancock , and R. W allace
The Traditional Trade of Asia . By C. G. F. S imkin
A Theory of Economic History . By J ohn H icks
The Structure of Earnings . By H. L ydall
Economic Interdependence in Southeast Asia . Edited by T. MORGAN and N. SPOELSTRA
Economic Institutions and Policy . By J. McB. GRANT, A. J. H agger and A. H ocking
Credit Unions in the South Pacific . Edited by >N. R uncie
Elementary Statistical Method . By J. LUMSDEN
Economic Theory: Equilibrium and Change . By M. L. BURSTEIN
Manual of Industrial Project Analysis in Developing Countries . By I. M. D. L ittle and J. A. M irrlees
Balance-of-Payments Policy . By B. J. C ohen
Economic Analysis and Industrial Structure . By D. N eedham . (Holt, Rinehart and Winston     

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Britain and Australia:Economic Relationships in the 1950's. By J. O. N. P erkins .
The Red National Income of Soviet Russia since 1928. By A bram B ergson .
The Economics of Wages. By D. J. R obertson .
United States Fiscal Policy 1945-59. By A. E. H olmans .
The Theory of Economic Integration. By B. A. B alassa .
Decision Order and Time in Human Affairs. By G. L. S. S hackle .
Economic Theory in Retrospect. By M. B laug .
Choice of Techniques. An Aspect of the Theory of Planned Economic Development. By A. K. S en .     

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Economic and Technical Problems of Australia's Rural Industries. By D. B. W illiams
Ownership and Control of Australian Companies. By E. L. W heelwright
Income and Wealth Series VI. Edited by M ilton G ilbert and R ichard S tone
An Economic Theory of Democracy. By A nthony D owns
Sales Taxation. By J ohn F. D ue
An Economic Survey of Northern Ireland. By K. S. I sles and N orman C uthbert
Economic Backwardness and Economic Growth. By H arvey L eibenstein
Business Cycles and Economic Policy. By E rik L undberg
Activity Analysis and the Theory of Economic Equilibrium. By H elen M akower
Labor in a Growing Economy. By M elvin W. R eder
International Monetary Policy. By W. M. S cammell
French Banking Structure and Credit Policy. By J. S. G. W ilson
Europe and the Money Muddle. By R obert T riffin
Social Security in the British Commonwealth. By R onald M endelsohn     

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Canadian Investment and Foreign Exchange. Edited by F. J. Parkinson
The Iron and Steel Industry in South Africa. By C. S. Richards
World Wheat Planning and Economic Planning in General. By Paul de Hevesy
English Economic History Since 1700. By C. R. Fay
The Variate Difference Method. By G. Tintner
The Economic Life of Primitive Peoples. By Melville J. Herskovits
Organized Labour in Four Continents. By H. A. Marquand and Others
The Maori People To-day. Edited by I. L. G. Sutherland
Economic Adaptation to a Changing World Market. By Carl Major Wright
Profits. Theoretical and Practical Aspects. By James P. Beddy
A Survey of Standards of Life of New Zealand Dairy Farmers (Bulletin 75 of the N.Z.D.S.I.R., Social Science Research Publication No. 1). By W. T. Doig
The Man Behind the Plough. By M. Azizul Huque
Canadians In and Out of Work. By L. C. Marsh
Whale Oil—An Economic Analysis: Fats and Oils Studies No. 7. By Karl Brandt
North Pacific Fisheries: Studies of the Pacific No. 3. By Homer E. Gregory and Kathleen Barnes
Education and the Birth Rate. By Grace G
The Co-operative Movement in Bengal. By J. P. Niyogi
The Incidence of Overhead Costs. By J. M. Clark
Statistical Methods as Applied to Accounting Reports. By A. A. Fitzgerald
Portfolio Policies of Commercial Banks in the United States 1920–1939. By Pearson Hunt
Urban and Rural Housing.
Old Age in Sweden. By Helen Fisher Hohman
Methods of Family Living Studies. By R. M. Woodbury
The Substance of Economics. By H. A. Silverman, B.A
New Zealand Official Year Book, 1940.
Expenses and Profits of Limited Price Variety Chains in 1939. By Elizabeth A. Burnham
How to Make Your Budget Balance. By E. C. Harwood and Helen Fowler
Economic Problems of To-day. By W. Arthur Lewis     

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The Australian Wool Market, 1840–1900. By ALAN BARNARD.
Australian Banking (Third Edition). By J. K. GIFFORD, J. VIVIAN WOOD and A. J. REITSMA.
Minerals in the Development of Australia.
Land Utilization in Australia. (Third Edition.) By SIR S amuel W adham , R. K ent "W ilson and J oyce W ood .
Atlas of Australian Resources: Five maps with commentaries.
Early New Zealand. A Dependency of New South Wales 1788–1841. By E. J. TAPP.
Selected Studies of Migration Since World War II: Proceedings of the Thirty-fourth Annual Conference of the Millank Memorial Fund, held October 30–31 at the New York Academy of Medicine.
Population Growth and Economic Development in Low Income Countries: A Case Study of India's Prospects. By A. J. C oalb and E. M. H oover .
The Strategy of Economic Development. By A lbert O. H irschmak .
International Trade and Economic Growth. By H arry G. J ohnson .
The Economic Theory of Fiscal Policy. By BENT HANSEN.
Policy Against Inflation. By R. P. HABROD.
Business Enterprise: Its Growth and Organisation. By RONALD S. EDWARDS and HARRY TOWNSEND.     

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The Coalminers of New South Wales. By E. G ollan .
C ommittee for E conomic D evelopment of A ustralia Public Investment in Australia. An Outline of the First C.E.D.A. Research Project. By R. M athews .
Journeys Towards Progress. Studies of Economic Policy-Making in Latin America. By A. O. H irschman .
Economic Philosophy. By J oan R obinson
International Economic Papers No. 11. Edited by A. T. P eacock , W. F. S tolper , R. T urvey and H. L iesner
What Keynes Means. By A. M urad .
The Nature of Price Theory. By H. H. L iebhafsky .
Unemployment and Structural Change. Studies and Reports
The British Economy in the Nineteen-Fifties. Edited by G. D. N. W orswick and P. H. A dy .
History of Stockholm's Enskilda Bank to 1914. By O. G asslander .
The Demand for Canadian Imports 1926-55. By M urray C. K emp .
Explanation in Social Science. By R. B rown .
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Vol. III:Economic Organizations and Policies in the Middle Ages. Edited by M. M. P ostan , E. E. R ich and E. M iller .
The Progress of Economics. A History of Economic Thought. By W. B. C atlin .
The Development of Firms. By A. S. M ackintosh .
Institutional Economics:Veblen, Commons and Mitchell Reconsidered. By J. D orfman and others .
State and Regional Income Estimation. By A lex K err .
Economic Trends in the Soviet Union. Edited by A. B ergson and S. K uznets .
Asset Prices in Economic Analysis. By S. B. C hase , J r .
Disarmament and the Economy. Edited by E. B enoit and K. E. B oulding .     

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Bonin, John P.; Székely, István P., eds, The development and reform of financial systems in Central and Eastern Europe
Yegor Gaidar and Karl Otto Pöhl, Russian Reform/International Money
Gutmann, Gemot & Wagner, Ulrich, Ö konomische Erfolge und Misserfolge der deutschen Vereinigung - Eine Zwischenbilanz
Neuhold, H., Havlik, P. & Suppan, A., eds. Political and Economic Transformation in East Central Europe
Chernyshev, Igor, Labour Statistics for a Market Economy
Landesmann, Michael A. and Székely, István P., eds, Industrial Restructuring and Trade Reorientation in Eastern Europe
Lim, Lin Lean and Sziráczki, György, Employment Challenges and Policy Responses: Chinese and International Perspectives
Warner, Malcolm, The Management of Human Resources in Chinese Industry
Poznanski, Kazimierz Z., ed., The Evolutionary Transition to Capitalism
Lorentzen, Jochen, Opening up Hungary to the World Market, External Constraints and Opportunities
Lavigne, Marie, The Economics of Transition. From Socialist Economy to Market Economy
Kornai, János, Highways and Byways: Studies on Reform and Postcommunist Transition
Zwas, Adam, From Failed Communism to Underdeveloped Capitalism. Transformation of Eastern Europe, the Post-Soviet Union and China .
Jackson, Marvin & Biesbrouck, Wouter, eds, Marketization, restructuring and competition in transition industries of Central and Eastern Europe
Gros, Daniel and Steinherr, Alfred, Winds of change. Economic Transition in Central and Eastern Europe
Estrin, Saul, Brada, Josef C, Gelb, Alan and Singh, Inderjit, eds, Restructuring and Privatization in Central Eastern Europe. Case Studies of Firms in Transition     

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Mesoeconomics: A Micro-Macro Analysis , by Yew-Kwang Ng
Markets and Famines , by Martin Ravallion
The Economics of Industrial Society , by Michio Morishima
Dynamic Programming: Applications to Agriculture and Natural Resources , by John O.S. Kennedy
Developments of Control Theory for Economic Analysis , by C. Carrara and D. Sartore
Finance of Old Age , edited by R. Mendelsohn
Balance of Payments Adjustment, 1945 to 1986, The IMF Experience , by M.G. dc Vries
Takeovers and Corporate Control- Towards a New Regulatory Environment , Centre for Independent Studies and the New Zealand Centre for Independent Studies
Financial Markets, Interest Rates and Monetary Economics , by D.J. Juttner
Pre-Classical Economic Thought , edited by S.T. Lowry, Recent Economic Thought Series     

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Search for a Social Philosophy. By F. W. Eggleston
Pioneering in the Prairie Provinces. By C. A. Dawson and Eva R. Younge
Principles of Investment. By G. H. Evans and G. E. Barnett
A Study on the Pure Theory of Production. By Sune Carlson
Studies in War Economics. By E. F. Penrose, E. J. Riches, A. S. J. Baster, C. M. Wright, and Edith T. Denhardt
Studies in Economic Warfare. By D. T. Jack
Hitler's "New Order" in Europe. By Paul Einzig
The Truth About Compulsory Savings. By K. S. Isles and B. R. Williams
Economic Aspects of Federalism , by Lionel Robbins
Germany Economy, 1870–1940. By Gustav Stolper
Un Manuscrit Inédit de David Ricardo Sur le Problème Monétaire. Edited by Edmund Silberner
The Industrialization of Japan and Manchukuo, 1930–1940. By E. B. Schumpeter, G. C. Allen, M. S. Gordon and E. F. Penrose
Japan Since 1931. By Hugh Borton
Seasonal Variations in the Economic Activities of Japan. By W. A. Spurr
Australia's Interests and Policies in the Far East. By Jack Shepherd
Far Eastern Trade of the United States. By Ethel B. Dietrich
Problems of the Pacific, 1939. Edited by Kate Mitchell and W. L. Holland
Barriers to World Trade. By Margaret S. Gordon
The City: The London Financial Markets. By B. Ellinger
Solving Labour Problems in Australia. By O. de R. Foenander
Problems in Wage Adjustment (Studies in Personnel Policy)
Standards of Living, Wages, and Prices. By H. Belshaw
The Structural Basis of Indian Economy. By H. Venkatasubbiah
Remove the Shackles. By A. G. McGregor
Federal Reserve Charts on Bank Credit, Money Rates and Business.
Marx' Philosophische Entwicklung, Sein Verhältnis zu Hegel
The Anthracite Coal Industry of the Swansea District. By A. E. C. Hare     

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The Australian Economy. Simple Economic Studies , by D. B. Copland
The Crisis in Australian Finance , 1929-31, by E. O. G. Shann, and D. B. Copland
The Battle of the Plans , by E. O. G. Shann and D. B. Copland
Britain and World Trade and Other Economic Essays. By A. Loveday
The Civil Service in the Modern State. By Leonard D. White
Our Financial System, An Introductory Text , by Albert S. Keister
Outlines of Economics , by Richard T. Ely
The Australian Banking and Credit System , by A. L. Gordon MacKay
Communism and Christianity , by G. V. Portus
Economics of Modern Industry , by Percy Ford
Economic Disarmament. A Study on International Co-operation. By J. H. Richardson
The Provision of Credit, with Special Reference to Agriculture. By Professor H. Belshaw
An Economic Survey of Australia.
Distribution in the United States and Europe.
An Outline of Australian Economics. By E. Ronald Walker and K. B. Madgwick
The Round Table—A Quarterly Review of the Politics of the British Commonwealth,1 No.
Economic Fragments. By D. H. Robertson, M.A.
Budget Control: An Introduction to the Financial System of New South Wales. By F. A. Bland