Book Reviews

Trade and Growth: New Dilemmas in Trade Policy by MANUEL R. AGOSIN and DIANA TUSSIE (eds.) (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1994), pp. xvii & 296, ISBN 0 333 59918 7. Reviving the European Union by RANDALL C. HENNING, EDUARD HOCHREITER and GARY CLYDE HUFBAUER (Washington: Institute of International Economics and The Austrian National Bank, 1994), pp. 176, US $25.00, £14.99 softback, ISBN 0 88132 208 3. Policy Issues in the Operation of Currency Unions by PAUL R. MASON and MARK P. TAYLOR (eds.) (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. xiv & 310, ISBN 0 521 43455 6. World Without End: Economics, Environment and Sustainable Development by DAVID W. PEARCE and JEREMY J. WARFORD (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. xi & 440, ISBN 0 19 520881 1.     

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Informal Financial Markets in Developing Countries by PETER J. MONTIEL, PIERRE-RICHARD AGENOR and NADEEM UL HAQUE (1993), pp. xi & 212, £40.00 hardback, ISBN 1 55786 357 1. Protectionism and World Welfare by DOMINICK SALVATORE (ed.) (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. xiv & 447, £45.00, US $69.95 hardback, £16.95, US $19.95 softback, ISBN 0 521 41455 5, 0 521 4 2489 5. The Bias Against Agriculture, Trade and Macroeconomic Policies in Developing Countries by ROMEO M. BAUTISTA and ALBERTO VALDÉS (San Francisco: Institute of Contemporary Studies, 1993), pp. xxii & 339, ISBN 1 55815 245 8. The British Economy Since 1945 by N.F.R. CRAFTS and NICHOLAS WOODWARD (eds.), (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. 549, £15.00 softback, ISBN 0 19 877273 4. European Monetary Integration, From the European Monetary System to European Monetary Union by DANIEL GROS and NIELS THYGESEN (London, New York: Longman, 1992), pp. xiii and 495, £19.99 softback, ISBN 0 582 07921 7. The Growth of the Public Sector, Theories and International Evidence by NORMAN GEMMELL (ed.), (Aldershot, Brookfield Vermount: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1993), pp. xiv and 261, £49.95 hardback, ISBN 1 85278 525 X.     

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The United States and the Politicization of the World Bank, BARTRAM S. BROWN (London, New York: Kegan Paul International Ltd, 1992), pp. xvii & 295, £45.00 hardback, ISBN 0 7103 0424 4. Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture, IAN GOLDIN and ALAN WINTERS (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. xxi & 320, £35.00, US $59.95 hardback, ISBN 0 521 42056 3. Current Issues in Development Economics, V.N. BALASUBRAMANYAM and S. LALL (eds.) (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991), pp. xii & 287, £40.00 hardback, £12.50 softback, ISBN 0 333 51323 1 and IBSN 0 333 51324 X. International Financial Markets, Integration, Efficiency and Expectations, JEROME L. STEIN (Oxford, Cambridge, MA: 1992), pp. x & 159, £30.00 hardback, ISBN 1 55786 230 3. Tax Policy in Developing Countries, JAVAD KHALILZADEH-SHIRAZI and ANWAR SHAH (Washington: The World Bank, 1991, obtainable in the UK from Microinfo Ltd, PO Box 3, Omega Park, Alton, Hampshire GU34 2PG), pp. xxiv & 252, softback, ISBN 8213 1990 6. Does Debt Management Matter?, JONAS AGELL, MATS PERSSON and BENJAMIN M. FRIEDMAN (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. viii & 155, £25.00 hardback, ISBN 019 828361 X. Authority and Academic Scribblers — The Role of Research in East Asian Policy Reform, SYLVIA OSTRY (ed.) (San Francisco: International Center for Economic Growth, 1991), pp. xiii & 181, $A24.95 hardback, $A12.95 softback, ISBN 1 55815 133 8 and 1 55815 132 X. Global Protectionism, DAVID GREENAWAY, ROBERT C. HINE, ANTHONY P. O'BRIEN and ROBERT J. THORNTON (eds.) (Basing-stoke: Macmillan, 1992), pp. ix & 310, £45.00 hardback, ISBN 0 333 52969 3. Japan and the Third World, WILLIAM R. NESTER (Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1992), pp. x & 323, £45.00 hardback, ISBN 0 333 52642 2.     

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Geography and Trade by PAUL KRUGMAN (Cambridge MA, London, MIT Press, 1991), pp. xi and 142, £15.95 hardback, ISBN 0 262 11159 4. Reforming Central and Eastern European Economies — Initial Results and Challenges by VITTORIO CORBO, FABRIZIO CORICELLI and JAN BOSSAK (eds.), (Washington: The World Bank, 1991, obtainable in the UK from Microinfo Ltd., Po Box 3, Omega Park, Alton, Hampshire, GU34 2PG) pp. xiv and 299, ISBN 0 8213 1893 4. Financial Enterprise in South Africa Since 1950 by STUART JONES (ed.), (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992), pp. xiv and 316, ISBN 0 333 52412 8. Commodities in Crisis by ALFRED MAIZELS (Oxford, New York, The Clarendon Press, 1992), pp. xviii and 307, £35.000 hardback, ISBN 0 19 828387 An Economic Analysis of the EC by JØRGEN ULFF-MØLLER NIELSON, HANS HEINRICH and JØRGEN DRUD HANSEN (London, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992), pp. xiii and 247, £17.95 softback, ISBN 0 07 707422 X. Economic Integration and Financial Liberalization, Prospects for Southern Europe by HEATHER D. GIBSON and EUCLID TSAKALOTOS (eds.), (Basingstoke: Macmillan in association with St Antony's College, Oxford, 1992), pp. xiv and 209, ISBN 0 333 54444 7. Dynamic International Oil Markets, Oil Market Developments and Structure 1860–1990 by COBY VAN DER LINDE (Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, 1992), pp. 224, Dfl 165.00, US $94.00, £56.00 hardback, ISBN 0 7923 1478 6. GATT and Conflict Management, A Transatlantic Strategy for a Stronger Regime by REINHARD RODE (ed.), (Oxford: Westview Press, 1990), pp. 125, US $28.50, £18.95 softback, ISBN 0 8133 7967 9.     

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Adjusting to Policy Failure in African Economies, DAVID E. SAHN (ed.) (Ithaca, london, Cornell University Press, 1994), pp. xiv and 421, £41.30 hardback, £16.50 softback, ISBN 0 8014 8136 8. Economic Crisis in Africa, Perspectives on Policy Responses, MAGNUS BLOMSTRÖM and MATS LUNDAHL (eds.) (London, New York: Routledge, 1993), pp. xiii and 353, £45.00 hardback, ISBN 0 415 09629 4. Labour and an Integrated Europe, LLOYD ULMAN, BARRY EICHENGREEN and WILLIAM T. DICKENS (eds.), (Washington DC, Brookings Books, 1993), pp. viii and 295, US $36.95 hardback, US $16.95 softback, ISBN 0 8157 8682 4 and 0 9157 8681 6. The Political Economy of Policy Reform, JOHN WILLIAMSON (ed.), (Washington, Institute of International Economics, 1994), pp. 596, £19.99 softback, ISBN 0 88132 195 8. Human Development Report 1994, THE UNITED NATIONS (Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. xi and 226, ISBN 0 19 509170.     

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Competing in a Global Economy by HELMUT FORSTNER and ROBERT BALLANCE (London, Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990), pp. xvi and 225, ISBN 0 04 445619 0. The Order of Economic Liberalization — Financial Control in the Transition to a Market Economy by RONALD I. McKINNON (Baltimore, London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), pp. xii and 200, £20.00 hardback, ISBN 0 8018 4170 4. North American Free Trade—Issues and Recommendations by GARY CLYDE HUFBAUER and JEFFREY J. SCHOTT (Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1992), pp. xv and 369, US$35.00 hardback, US$25.00 softback, ISBN 0 88132 145 1 and 0 88132 120 6. Issues in Contemporary Economics, Volume I Markets and Welfare by KENNETH J. ARROW (ed.) (New York: New York University Press, 1991), pp. xviii and 294, US$75.00 hardback, ISBN 0 8147 0598 7. International Business and Global Integration, Empirical Studies by MARK CASSON (ed.) (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992), pp. xiii and 271, £40.00 hardback, ISBN 0 333 560353. The Growth of the International Economy, 1820–1990, Third Edition by A.G. KENWOOD and A.L. LOUGHEED (London, New York: Routledge, 1992), pp. xi and 327, £45.00 hardback, £14.99 softback, ISBN 0 415 07604 8.     

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Successful Product Development: Management Practices in American and British Firms by Axel Johne and Patricia Snelson. (Basil Blackwell Ltd, Oxford, 1990). 240 pages. £29.50. ISBN 0 631 17448 6.

Customer Driven by Linda Silverman Goldzimer (Hutchinson Business Books, London, 1990). 233 pages. £14.95 hardback, ISBN 0 091 74442 3 (csd). £7.99 paperback, ISBN 0 091 74443 1 (ppr).

Marketing for the National Health Service by Rod Sheaff. (The Open University Press, Milton Keynes, 1991). £11.95 paperback. ISBN 0 335 15427 1.     

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Measuring the Costs of Protection in Japan by YOKO SAZANAMI, SHUJIRO URATA and HIROKI KAWAI (Institute for International Economics, 1994), pp. xi & 76, US$11.95 softback, ISBN 0 88132 211 3. Western Hemisphere Economic Integration by GARY CLYDE HUFBAUER and JEFFREY J. SCHOTT (Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1994), pp. xv & 279, £19.99 softback, ISBN 0 88132 159 1. Banks, Finance and Investment in Germany by JEREMY EDWARDS and KLAUS FISCHER (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. xiv & 252, £30.00, US$49.95 hardback. ISBN 0 521 45348 8. Stabilization and Structural Adjustment: Macroeconomic Frameworks for Analysing the Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa by FINN TARP (London, New York: Routledge, 1994), pp. xvi & 212, £13.99 softback, ISBN 0 415 08180 7.     

Book Reviews

The Economic Value of Biodiversity by DAVID PEARCE and DOMINIC MORAN (London, Earthscan, 1994), pp. xii & 172, £32.50 hardback £12.95 softback, ISBN 1 85383 195 6 1 85383 225 1. Applied General Equilibrium Modelling, Imperfect Competition and European Integration by DIRK WILLENBOCKEL (Chichester, New York, John Wiley, 1994), pp. vii & 261, £39.95 hardback, ISBN 0 471 95038 6. Strengthening the Financial Sector in the Adjustment Process by ROBERTO FRENKEL (ed.) (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), pp. vi & 254, £15.50 softback, ISBN 0 940602 78 4.     

BOOK REVIEW

Abstract

FINANCIAL DECISIONS IN EMERGING MARKETS. Jaime Sabal. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 280 pp. $55.00 paper. ISBN 0-19-514459-7. Reviewed by Kofi A. Amoateng.     

BOOK REVIEWS

NORTH SEA OIL AND GAS AND BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY, by Ray Dafter and Ian Davidson, Chatham House Paper No. 10 (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1980) 44 pp., £5.00. HANDBOOK OF THE ECONOMY OF THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, by a research team of the German Institute for Economic Research (Farnborough: Saxon House, 1979) 366 pp., £15.00. THE ORIGINS OF THE GERMAN SOCIAL MARKET ECONOMY: THE LEADING IDEAS AND THEIR INTELLECTUAL ROOTS, by Konrad Zweig, with a Foreword by Christian Watrin (London and Virginia: Adam Smith Institute, 1980) 47 pp., £1.50 and $3.50. JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES: ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ADVERSARIES, edited by Leon Hollerman (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1980) 224 pp., $22.00. INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND AGRICULTURE: THEORY AND POLICY, edited by Jimmye S. Hillman and Andrew Schmitz (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1979) 333 pp., $23.50. CONCEPTUAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR APPROPRIATE INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) Monograph on Appropriate Industrial Technology No. 1 (New York: United Nations, 1979) 144 pp., no charge. APPROPRIATE INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY FOR TEXTILES, UNIDO Monograph on Appropriate Industrial Technology No. 6 (New York: United Nations, 1979) 87 pp., no charge. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BOTSWANA: A STUDY OF GROWTH AND DISTRIBUTION, by Christopher Colclough and Stephen McCarthy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980) 289 pp., £12.50. MULTINATIONAL COOPERATION FOR DEVELOPMENT IN WEST AFRICA, by John P. Renninger (Oxford and New York: Pergamon, for the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, 1979) 162 pp., £8.50 and $17.60.     

Book Reviews: C. John Miller &; Richard S. Goldberg: Product liability, 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 971 pp. ISBN 0-19-825678-7. GBP 145.00.

Book Review

Book Reviews: C. John Miller &; Richard S. Goldberg: Product liability, 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 971 pp. ISBN 0-19-825678-7. GBP 145.00.     

Evangelical Economist Condemns Debt

Tim Congdon, The Debt Threat (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988) 246 pp., hardcover £25.00, paperback £7.95.     

Book reviews

Professor Paul Joyce
Nottingham Business School
Nottingham Trent University The Leadership Lifecycle Andrew Ward, 2003. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 0‐3339‐9362‐4. £25.00 hardback, 178 pages. Jim Bray
Senior Lecturer in HRD
Department of Management and HR
University of Central England Mediation for Managers: Resolving Conflict and Rebuilding Relationships at Work John Crawley and Katherine Graham, 2002. Nicholas Brealey Publishing, London, UK and Maine, USA. ISBN: 1‐857‐8831‐5. £14.99 ($19.95 paperback), 227 pages.     

Book reviews

MARKETING FOR THE SMALL FIRM by Rick Brown (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985), 184 pages, £5.95. ISBN 0–03–910616–0.

THE SELLING OF BRITISH TELECOM by Karin Newman (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1986), 176 pages, £15.95. ISBN 0–03–910639–1.

ADVERTISING WORKS 3 edited by Charles Channon (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985), 317 pages, £20.00. ISBN 0–03–910619–5.

BASIC MARKETING 2nd ed. by Tom Cannon (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1986), 369 pages, £7.95. ISBN 0–03–910603–9.

TRAINING SALESMEN ON THE JOB 2nd Edition by John Lidstone (Gower Press, Aldershot, 1986), 180 pages, £25.00. ISBN 0–566–02414–4.

STRATEGIES FOR INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL MARKETING edited by Peter W. Turnbull and Jean‐Paul Valla (Croom Helm, London, 1986), 310 pages, £29.95 hardback. ISBN 0–7099–2494–1.

PRACTICAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: WHAT WORKS WHAT DOES NOT by Peter M. Kraushar (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, London, 1985), 180 pages, £15.95 hardback. ISBN 0–03–910614–4.     

Book reviews

MARKETING BUDGETING by Nigel Piercy (Croom Helm, 1986) 522 pages, £27.50 hb. ISBN 0–7099–2092‐X.

STATISTICS FOR MARKETING by Leslie W. Rodger (McGraw‐Hill, London, 1984), 280 pages, £10.95. ISBN 0–07–084728–2.

ANALYSIS FOR STRATEGIC MARKET DECISIONS by George S. Day (West Publishing Co., St. Paul, Minnesota, 1986), ISBN 0–314–85227–1.

MARKETING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY by Norman Fisher (Longman, Harlow, Essex, 1986), 270 pages, £19.95 HB. ISBN 0–582–503302.

SOURCES OF UNOFFICIAL UK STATISTICS by David A. Mort and Leona Siddall (Gower Publishing Co., 1985), 457 pages, £45.00. ISBN 0–566–02620–1.

HOTEL & FOOD SERVICE MARKETING by Francis Buttle (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, London, 1986) 406 pages, £9.95. ISBN 0–03–910682–9.

POSITIONING: THE BATTLE FOR YOUR MIND by Al Ries and Jack Trout, first edition revised (McGraw‐Hill, New York, 1986), 213 pages, £17.95 hardcover. ISBN 0–07–065264–3.

BUSINESS WARGAMES by Barrie G. James (Abacus Press, Tunbridge Wells, 1984), 254 pp., £14.95. ISBN 0–85626–441–5.     

Dispelling some myths: Uncertain and multiple paths to globalization

Brink Lindsey. 2002. Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 336 pages; ISBN 0‐471‐44277‐1. Peter Hall & David Soskice (Eds.). 2001. Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 540 pages; ISBN 0‐199‐24775‐7.     

Foreign investment in Russia and China: A long way to go,but reason for optimism

D. LeBaron, with D. Carpenter. 2002. Mao, Marx, and the Market: Capitalist Adventures in Russia and China. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 303 pages; ISBN: 0‐471‐15315‐X. B. Granville & P. Oppenheimer (Eds.). 2001. Russia's Post‐Communist Economy. Oxford, England: University Press. 538 pages; ISBN 0‐19‐829525‐1. H. Fung & K.H. Zhang (Eds.). 2002. Financial Markets and Foreign Direct Investment in Greater China. New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc. 302 pages; ISBN: 0‐7656‐0804‐9.     

BOOK REVIEWS

A POSITIVE APPROACH TO THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER, PART I: TRADE AND STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT, by Alasdair MacBean (London, Washington and Montreal: British-North American Committee, 1978) 61 pp., £1.75 and $3.00. A POSITIVE APPROACH TO THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER, PART II: NON-TRADE ISSUES, by Alasdair MacBean and V. N. Balasubramanyam (London, Washington and Montreal: British-North Amercan Committee, 1980) 100 pp., £2.25 and $5.00. FARM AND FOOD POLICY: ISSUES OF THE 1980s, by Don Paarlberg (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1980) 338 pp., $16.50. ECONOMIC DISINCENTIVES FOR ENERGY CONSERVATION, by Joe W. Russell Jr (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger, 1979; and London: Harper & Row, 1980) 156 pp., $17.50 and £11.50. THE OIL INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT STRATEGY IN THE NORTH SEA, by φystein Noreng (London: Croom Helm, 1980; and Boulder, Colorado: International Research Centre for Energy and Economic Development, 1980) 268 pp., £14.95 and $21.95. SUBSIDIZED EXPORT CREDIT, by Joan Pearce, Chatham House Paper No. 8 (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1980) 63 pp., £5.00. INVESTMENT AND DIVESTMENT POLICIES OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN EUROPE, by D. Van Den Bulcke, J. Boddewyn, B. Martens and P. Klemmer (Farnborough: Saxon House, in association with the European Centre for Study and Information on Multinational Corporations, 1979) 219 pp., £9.50. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISE IN A MIXED ECONOMY, edited by William J. Baumol (London: Macmillan, 1980; and New York: St Martins Press, 1980) 308 pp., £20.00 and $40.00.     

Europe and the world

Michelle Egan. 2001. Constructing a European Market. Standards, Regulation and Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 362 pages; ISBN 0‐9‐24405‐7. Brigid Gavin. 2001. The European Union and Globalization; Towards Global Democratic Governance. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 242 pages; ISBN 1‐84064‐005‐7. Patrick A. Messerlin. 2001. Measuring the Costs of Protection in Europe: European Commercial Policies in the 2000s. Washington: Institute for International Economics. 370 pages; ISBN 0‐88132‐273‐3.