BOOK REVIEWS

Book Review in this article: Development Economics: From the Poverty to the Wealth of Nations by Yujiro Hayami State and Community in Rural Resource Management: The Asian Experience edited by S. Hirashima and W. Gooneratne     

BOOKS REVIEWS

Book review in this Article Uneven Development in the Third World: A Study of China and India by A. S. Bhalla Chinese State Enterprises: A Regional Property Rights Analysis by David Granick     

BOOK REVIEW

Book Reviewed in this article: The State in Burma by Robert H. Taylor, London, C. Hurst & Company, 1987, xvi+395 pp.     

Book briefs

Agricultural mechanization and the evolution of farming systems in Sub‐Saharan Africa, World Bank publication, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and Lon‐don, 1987

Livestock development in Latin America, World Bank publication. 1986

Liberty, Market and State: Political economy in the 1980s, Wheatsheaf Books, Brighton, 1986

Law, custom and social order: The colonial experience in Malawi and Zambia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 1985     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed Lewis Johnman and Hugh Murphy, Scott Lithgow: Déjà Vu All Over Again! The Rise and Fall of a Shipbuilding Company. St. John’s, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2005. xi + 364 pp. ISBN: 0 9738934 0 0. Softback US$15.00.
Reviewed by Tony Arnold
University of Leicester Gordon Jackson, The British Whaling Trade. St. John’s, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2005. xvi + 293 pp. ISBN: 0 9730073 9 7. Paperback US$15.
Reviewed by Tony Barrow
The Open University Adrian Jarvis, In Troubled Times: the Port of Liverpool, 1905–1938. St John’s, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2003. viii + 232 pp. ISBN: 0 9730073 6 2. Paperback US$15.00.
Reviewed by Gordon Boyce
Queensland University of Technology Gwenda Tavan, The Long, Slow Death of White Australia. Melbourne: Scribe, 2005. 298 pp. ISBN: 1 920769 46 3. Paperback A$32.95.
Reviewed by Stephen Constantine
Lancaster University Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose, International Trade in East Asia (NBER East Asia Seminar on Economics, Volume 14). Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 392 pp. ISBN: 0 226 37896 9. Cloth US$80.
Reviewed by Gary Hawke
Victoria University of Wellington Graeme Hunt, Centenary: One Hundred Years of State Insurance. Auckland: IAG New Zealand Ltd, 2005. 238 pp. ISBN: O 473 10097 5. Paperback $NZ29.95.
Reviewed by Frank Holmes
Victoria University of Wellington L. Sharon Davidson and Stephen Salisbury, Australia’s First Bank: 50 Years from the Wales to Westpac. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005. 407 pp. ISBN: 0 86840 791 7. Paperback $49.95.
Reviewed by Frank Holmes
Victoria University of Wellington Bruce Pennay, Making a City in the Country – The Albury‐Wodonga National Growth Centre Project 1973–2003. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2005. xi + 387 pp. ISBN 0 86840 944 8. Paperback $49.95.
Reviewed by Twan Huybers
University of New South Wales at Australian Defence Force Academy Patricia Jalland, Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. viii + 409pp. ISBN: 0 86840 905 7. Paperback. $39.95.
Reviewed by Fergus King
Anglican Diocese of Newcastle Massimo M. Augello and Marco E.L. Guidi (eds), Economists in Parliament in the Liberal Age (1848–1920). Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005. xviii + 315 pp. ISBN: 0 7546 3965 7. Hardback £55.
Reviewed by Warren J. Samuels
Michigan State University     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this articles: Rural Transformation in Asia Edited by Jan Breman, and Sudipto Mundle Mining and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia Edited by John Connell and Richard Howitt Southeast Asia in the World-Economy Chris Dixon The Creation of Technological Capability in Developing Countries J. L. Enos The Agrarian Question in North Vietnam, 1974–1979: A Study of Co-operator Resistance to State Policy Adam Fforde Labor Standards and Development in the Global Economy Edited by Stephen Herzenberg and Jorge F. Perez-Lopez Growth Triangle: The Johor-Singapore-Riau Experience. Edited by Lee Tsao Yuan Conflict over Natural Resources in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Edited by Lim Teck Ghee and Mark J. Valencia Singapore: City-State in South-East Asia Philippe Régnier (in translation) Thailand and the United States, Development, Security, and Foreign Aid Robert R. Muscat Pacific Basin Developing Countries: Prospects for the Future. Marcus Noland Money in the People's Republic of China: A Comparative Perspective Gavin Peebles Socio-Econontic Development in Vietnam: The Agenda for the 1990s. Edited by Per Ronnas and Orjan Sjoberg Pacific-Basin Capital Markets Research, Volumes I and II Edited by S. G. Rhee and R. P. Chang The China-Hong Kong Connection: The Key to China's Open Door Policy Yun-Wing Sung     

Book briefs

B Eichengreen (ed) The gold standard in theory and history Methuen, New York and London, 1985

F Ellis Peasant economics: Farm households and agrarian development Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988

G Feder, T Onchan, T Chalamwong & C Hongladarom Land policies and farm productivity in Thailand (Published for the World Bank). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1988.

C Ford Runge (ed) The future of the North American granary: Politics, economics, and resource constraints in North American agriculture Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa, 1986     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this articles: Small Industry in Malaysia. By Chee Peng Lim . The Indonesian Interisland Shipping Industry: An Analysis of Competition and Regulation. By H.W. Dick . The Political Economy of Manufacturing Protection: Experiences of ASEAN and Australia. Edited by Christopher Findlay and Ross Garnaut . The Demographic Dimension in Indonesian Development. By Graeme J. Hugo , Terence H. Hull , Valerie J. Hull and Gavin W. Jones . Southeast Asian Affairs 1986. The Forest Resources of Malaysia: Their Economics and Development. By Raj Kumar . Rural China Today. By Frank Leeming . Organizations and Growth in Rural China. By Marsh Marshall . China's Agricultural Modernization: The Socialist Mechanization Scheme. By Tam On Kit . ASEAN-Australia Trade in Manufactures. By David Lim . Trade, Employment and Industrialization in Singapore. By Linda Lim and Pang Eng Fong . Central Government and Local Development in Indonesia. Edited by Colin Mac Acandrews . Industrial Policies for Pacific Economic Growth. Edited by Hiromichi Mutoh , Sueo Sekiguchi , Kotaro Suzumura and Ippei Yamazawa . The Lion and the Mouse? Japan, Asia and Thailand. Edited by Pasuk Phongpaichit , Busaba Kunasirin , and Buddhagarn Rutchatorn . Hong Kong's Financial Institutions and Markets. Edited by Robert Hanley Scott K.A. Wong and Yan Ki Ho . Off-Farm Employment in the Development of Rural Asia. Edited by R.T. Shand . Fertility in Asia: Assessing the Impact of Development Projects. Edited by John Stoeckel and Anrudh K. Jain. A Question of Class: Capital, the State, and Uneven Development in Malaya. By Jomo Kwame Sundaram. The Economics of Integrated Pest Control in Rice: A Case Study from the Philippines. By Hermann Waibel. China: Long-term Development Issues and Options. A World Bank Country Report.     

Reviews

P. D. A. Harvey . Manorial Records. P. D. A. Harvey (Ed.). The Peasant Land Market in Medieval England. Peter Clark . The English Alehouse: A Social History, 1200–1800. Angus Mc Laren . Reproductive Rituals: The Perception of Fertility in England from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century. L. Stone and J. C. Fawtier Stone . An Open Elite?: England, 1540–1880. Stephen Fisher (Ed.). British Shipping and Seamen, 1630–1960: Some Studies. Donald Woodward (Ed.). The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, 1642. Clifford Gulvin . The Scottish Hosiery and Knitwear Industry, 1680–1980. James Walvin . English Urban Life, 1776–1851. Ian R. Christie . Stress and Stability in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain: Reflections on the British Avoidance of Revolution. Oliver M. Westall (Ed.). The Historian and the Business of Insurance. Gertrude Himmelfarb. The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age. B. R. Mitchell. Economic Development of the British Coal Industry, 1800–1914. Dorothy Thompson. The Chartists. R. F. Bud and G. K. Roberts. Science versus Practice: Chemistry in Victorian Britain. Asa Briggs and Anne Macartney. Toynbee Hall: The First Hundred Years. Alan Clinton. Post Office Workers: A Trade Union and Social History. Harvey J. Kaye. The British Marxist Historians: An Introductory Analysis. GENERAL Steven Laurence Kaplan . Provisioning Paris: Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Flour Trade during the Eighteenth Century. Bernard Lepetit . Chemins de Terre et Voies D'Eau: Réseaux de Transports et Organisation de l'Espace en France, 1740–1840. Jean -Claude Perrot and Stuart J. Woolf . State and Statistics in France, 1789–1815. William J. Callahan . Church, Society, and Politics in Spain, 1750–1874. Miriam Halpern Pereira . Política y economía: Portugal en los siglos XIX y XX. A. de Maddalena and H. Kellenbenz (Eds.). Finanze e ragion di Stato in Italia e in Germania nella prima Età moderna. David F. Good . The Economic Rise of the Habsburg Empire, 1750–1914. Michael Mesch . Arbeiterexistenz in der Spätgründerzeit: Gewekschaften und Lohnen-twicklung in Österreich, 1890–1914. Henry Kamen . European Society, 1500–1700. G. D. Feldman , C. L. Holtfrerich , G. A. Ritter and P.-C. Witt (Eds.). The Experience of Inflation. Glenn Yago . The Decline of Transit: Urban Transportation in German and US. Cities, 1900–1970. Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole (Eds.). Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modem Era. Stanley Lebergott . The Americans: An Economic Record. William R. Brock . Investigation and Responsibility: Public Responsibility in the United States, 1865–1900. Thomas K. Mc Craw . Prophets of Regulation. Hugh Rockoff . Drastic Measures: A History of Wage and Price Controls in the United States. D. H. Akenson . The Irish in Ontario: A Study in Rural History. Robert L. Tignor . State, Private Enterprise, and Economic Change in Egypt, 1918–1952. H. Medick and D. W. Sabean (Eds.). Interest and Emotion: Essays on the Study of Family and Kinship. R. A. Cage (Ed.). The Scots Abroad: Labour, Capital, Enterprise, 1730–1914. Akio Okochi and Shigeaki Yasuoka (Eds.). Family Business in the Era of Industrial Growth: Its Ownership and Management. D. C. M. Platt . Foreign Finance in Continental Europe and the USA, 1815–1870: Quantities, Origins, Functions, and Distribution. Thomas P. Hughes . Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880–1930. Philip D. Curtin . Cross-cultural Trade in World Industry.     

Tax illusion and savings perception: The case of compulsory loans

Summary Theexplicit specification of a short-run tax illusion effect accompanying compulsory loan levy is introduced, thus enabling its empirical verification and estimation by income group using cross-section data. Consumption-Savings/Savings-composition behaviour and decisions in both the short-run and long term and liquidity/risk-asset preference are dealt with in this context, and three possible forms of the effect are proposed: (a)continuous over, (b)discontinuous over, or (c)discontinuous within income groups, with expected results discussed accordingly. Finally, compulsory loan levy in Israel is discussed and proposed as a valid case for further study.Formerly, Economic Assistant, Economic Planning Authority, State of Israel (1970-71). The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the author's previous employer.     

On the decomposition of the harberger tax incidence equation

Conclusions This paper has re-examined an important area in tax incidence analysis: how the famous Harberger equation can and should be decomposed. The well-known and generally accepted decomposition scheme proposed by Mieszkowski has recently been challenged byH-H, with potential ramifications concerning the significance of the general equilibrium approach pioneered by Harberger. It has been shown that this challenge has been misplaced:H-H failed to appreciate the equal yield requirement in the Mieszkowski scheme and, consequently, their proposed method of decomposition is of little economic content. This analysis reaffirms the validity and usefulness of theH-M approach.This paper was written when the author was on the faculty of Louisiana State University. The views expressed herein are his and do not necessarily reflect those of the IMF or its staff.     

Book Reviews

Agrawal, Pradeep, Gokarn, Subir V., Mishra, Veena, Parikh, Kirit S. and Sen, Kunal Economic Restructuring in East Asia and India: perspectives on policy reform Bruno, Michael and Pleskovic, Boris (eds) Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1995 Fforde, Adam and de Vylder, Stefan From Plan to Market: the economic transition in Vietnam Garnaut, R., Grilli, E. and Riedel, J. (eds) Sustaining Export-Oriented Development – Lessons from East Asia Garnaut, Ross, Shutian, Guo and Guonan, Ma (eds) The Third Revolution in the Chinese Countryside Ito, Takatoshi and Krueger, Anne O. (eds) Financial Deregulation and Integration in East Asia Koppel, Bruce, Hawkins, John and James, William (eds) Development or Deterioration? Work in rural Asia Little, Ian M.D., Cooper, Richard N., Corden, W. Max and Rajapatirana, Sarath Boom, Crisis, and Adjustment: the macroeconomic experience of developing countries Mohamad, Maznah The Malay Handloom Weavers: a study of the rise and decline of traditional manufacture Mizuno, Kosuke Rural Industrialization in Indonesia: a case study of community-based weaving industry in West Java Naya, Seiji Finch, Tan, Joseph L.H. (eds) Asian Transitional Economies, Challenges and Prospects for Reform and Transformation Pangestu, Mari Economic Reform, Deregulation and Privatization: the Indonesian experience Ravenhill, John (ed.) The Political Economy of East Asia Robison, Richard (ed.) Pathways to Asia: the politics of engagement Sanderson, Warren C. and Tan Jee-Peng Population in Asia Simpson, James R., Cheng, Xu and Miyazaki, Akira China’s Livestock and Related Agriculture: projections to 2025 Singh, Daljit and Kiat, Liak Teng (eds) Southeast Asian Affairs 1996 Stern, Joseph J., Kim, Ji-hong, Perkins, Dwight H. and Yoo, Jung-ho Industrialization and the State: the Korean heavy and chemical industry drive van de Walle, Dominique and Nead, Kimberly (eds) Public Spending and the Poor: theory and evidence     

Publications

J. Panglaykim and Ingrid Palmer, State Trading Corporations in Developing Countries. Rotterdam, Rotterdam University Press, 1969, pp. 199.

Mendjelang Repelita [Looking Forward to the Five Year Plan], Proceedings of the Fifth Congress of the Indonesian Association of Economists, Palembang, 5-8 April 1969. Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia, Djakarta, 1969. Pp. vi + 244. (Price not stated).

The Promotion of Private Investment in Indonesia, prepared by a Study Group of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee of the OECD. Paris, March 1969, Pp. 46.

Regional Seminar on Agriculture, Papers and Proceedings. Asian Development Bank, Sydney, Australia, 10-12 April 1969. Pp. 248.

The First Five Year Development Plan 1969/70-1973/4. Department of Information, Republic of Indonesia, Djakarta, 1969. 5 volumes. (This is the official English language translation of the Plan, which was reviewed in Bulletin Vol. V, No. 2, pp. 70-79.     

Reviews

Review in this Article P. L. Cottrell and D. H. Alcroft (Eds.). Shipping, Trade and Commerce: Essays in Memory of Ralph Davis. C. Dyer . Lords and Peasants in a Changing Society: The Estates of the Bishopric of Worcester, 680–1540. Philip Riden and John Blair (Eds.). History of Chesterfield, Volume 5: Records of the Borough of Chesterfield and Related Documents, 1204–1835. Colin Richmond . John Hopton: A Fifteenth-Century Suffolk Gentleman. David Hey . Packmen, Carriers and Packhorse Roads: Trade and Communications in North Derby shire and South Yorkshire. Barrie Trinder and Jeff Cox (Eds.). Yeoman and Colliers in Telford: Probate Inventories for Dawley, Lilleshall, Wellington and Wrockwardine, 1660–1750. Alan Macfarlane . The Justice and the Mare's Ale R. S. Neale . Class in English History, 1680–1850. George Shelton . Dean Tucker and Eighteenth Century Economic and Political Thought. J. Rule . The Experience of Labour in Eighteenth-Century Industry. Derek Fraser (Ed.). A History of Modern Leeds. W. B. Stephens . Adult Education and Society in an Industrial Town: Warrrington, 1800–1900. A. F. J. Brown . Colchester, 1815–1914. David Harkness and Mary O'Dowd (Eds.). The Town in Ireland. W. A. Mc Cutcheon . The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland. Stephen Fisher (Ed.). West Country Maritime and Social History: Some Essays. E. H. Hunt . British Labour History, 1815–1914. F. K. Prochaska . Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Olive Checkland . Philanthropy in Victorian Scotland: Social Welfare and the Voluntary Principle. Martin J. Wiener . English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850–1980. Keith Burgess . The Challenge of Labour: Shaping British Society, 1850–1930. W. R. Garside . The Measurement of Unemployment in Great Britain, 1850–1979: Methods and Sources. P. L. Payne . The Early Scottish Limited Companies, 1856–1895. Geoffrey Jones . The State and the Emergence of the British Oil Industry. Thea Thompson . Edwardian Childhoods. Gail Braybon . Women Workers in the First World War. Mark Swenarton . Homes Fit For Heroes: The Politics and Architecture of Early State Housing in Britain. John Macnicol . The Movement for Family Allowances, 1918–45: A Study in Social Policy Development. M. I. Lipman (with an introduction by J. Saville ). Memoirs of a Socialist Businessman. Paul Uselding (Ed.). Research in Economic History Richard W. Unger . The Ship in the Medieval Economy, 600–1600. David Grigg . Population Growth and Agrarian Change: An Historical Perspective. Michael Anderson . Approaches to the History of the Western Family, 1500–1914. V. A. C. Gatrell , Bruce Lenman and Geoffrey Parker (Eds.). Crime and the Law: the Social History of Crime in Western Europe since 1500. Martin H. Körner . Solidarités financières suisses au seizième siècle. Anthony D. King (Ed.). Buildings and Society: Essays on the Social Development of the Built Environment. John J. Mc Cusker . Money and Exchange in Europe and America, 1600–1775: A Handbook. Claude -Frédéric LEavy . Capitalistes et pouvoir au siéde des lumiéres. Tome 3: La monarchie buissonnière, 1718–1723. Henry Kamen . Spain in the Later Seventeenth Century Josefina Cruz Villalón . Propiedad y usa de la tierra en la Baja Andalucía: Carmona, siglos xviii-xx. Hannes Siegrist . Vom Familienbetrieb zum Manageruntemehmen: Angestellte und industrielle Organisation am Beispiel der Georg Fischer AG in Schaffhausen, 1797–1930. Geoffrey Ellis . Napoleon's Continental Blockade: The Case of Alsace. George E. Carl . First Among Equals: Great Britain and Venezuela, 1810–1910. Maria L. Cavalcanti . Le relazioni commerciali tra il Regno di Napoli e la Russia, 1772–1815. Francesco Balletta . Le Due Sicilie e l'Egitto nel secolo XIX. Francesco Balletta . Il Banco di Napoli in Calabria al tempo della prima guerra mondiale. Paul G. E. Clemens . The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore: From Tobacco to Grain. Sidney Pollard (Ed.). Region und Industrialisierung. La dette publique aux XVIII^e et XIX^e siècles. Son développement sur le plan local, régional et national. Christian Schnakenbourg . Histoire de l'Industrie sucrière en Guadeloupe aux XIX^e et XX^e siècles. Tome I: la crise du système esclavagiste (1835–1847). W. H. Sewell . Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848. James R. Lehning . The Peasants of Marines: Economic Development and Family Organization in Nineteenth-Century France. Hugh Clout . Agriculture in France on the Eve of the Railway Age. Eilert Sundt . On Marriage in Norway. Richard Tilly . Kapital, Staat und sozialer Protest in der deutschen Industrialisierung. Gesammelte Aufsätze. Carl F. Kaestle and Maris A. Vinovskis . Education and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts. Dolores Greenberg . Financiers and Railroads, 1869–1889: A Study of Morton, Bliss and Company. J. R. Hanson , II. Trade in Transition: Exports from the Third World, 1840–1900. Stephen Baier . An Economic History of Central Niger. W. L. Guttsman . The German Social Democratic Party, 1875–1933. R. W. Davies . The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Ernest Mandel . Long Waves of Capitalist Development: The Marxist Interpretation.     

Book reviews

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     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Roger Finlay . Population and Metropolis: The Demography of London, 1580–1450. John Bowle . John Evelyn and his World: A Biography. L. M. Cullen . The Emergence of Modern Ireland, 1600–1900. Bruce Lenman . Integration, Enlightenment, and Industrialization: Scotland, 1746–1832, The New History of Scotland, 6. Christopher Harvie . No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Scotland, 1914–1980. R. A. Cage . TheScottish Poor Law, 1745–1845. Sean Mcconville . A History of English Prism Administration: Volume I, 1750–1877. Victor Bailey (Ed.). Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Anne Digby and Peter SEARBY (Eds.). Children, School, and Society in Nineteenth Century England. I. G. Jones . Explorations and Explanations: Essays in the Social History of Victorian Wales. G. E. Mingay (Ed.). The Victorian Countryside. H. I. Dutton and J. E. King . Ten Per Cent and No Surrender: The Preston Strike, 1853–4. Robert Gray . The Aristocracy of Labour in Nineteenth-centuty Britain, 1850–1914. Anthony Sutcliffe (Ed.). British Town Planning: The Formative Years. Jim Tomlinson . Problems of British Economic Policy, 1870–1945. Alan Forrest . The French Revolution and the Porn. Richard F. Kuisel . Capitalism and the State in Modern France: Renoeation and Economic Management in the Twentieth Century. W. H. Schroeder and R. Spree (Eds.). Histotische Konjunklurforschung. David Abraham . The Collapse of the Weimar Republic: Political Economy and Crisis. La Banque en Belgique . Financiewezen in Belgie, 1830–1980. Revue de la Banque. Bank- Financimezen. Cahier 8/9. September 1980. Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui . The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages, 1100–1600. Francesco Facchini , Alle origini di Brescia Industriale: Insediamenti produttivi e composizione de classe dall' Unita al 1911. Lutgardo Garcia Fuentes . El Comercio Espanol con America, 1650–1700 Fritz Hodne . Norges flkonomiske hisrorie, 1815–1970. Thomas C. Owen . Capitalism and Politics in Russia: A Social History of the Moscow Merchants, 1855–1905. Jon V. Kofas . Financial Relations of Greece and the Great Powers, 1832–1862. Sidney Pollard . Peaceful Conquest: The Industrialization of Europe, 1760–1970. E. L. Jones . The European Miracle: Environments, Economies, and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia. Michael R. Godley . The Mandarin-Capitalists from Nanyang: Overseas Chinese Enterprise in the Modernization of China, 1893–1911. Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss . A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Indusnialization in the Slave Economy. Margaret Walsh . The American Frontier Revisited A. J. H. Latham . The Depression and the Developing World, 1914–1939. E. J. Hobsbawm , Witold Kula , Ashok Mitra , K. N. Raj and Ignacv Sachs (Eds.) Peasants in Histmy: Essays in Honour of Daniel Thorner. Robert I. Rotberg and Theodore K. Rabb (Eds.). Marriage and Fertility: Studies in Interdisciplinary History. Rudolf Hilferding . Finance Capital: A Study of the Latest Phase of Capitalist Development. Lawrence Stone . The Past and the Present.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed Jeremy Rifkin, The Hydrogen Economy. Cambridge: Polity, 2002. Pp. 294. ISBN: 0 7456 3042 1. Paperback A$57.95.
Reviewed by Dave Feickert
Victoria University of Wellington Charles H. Feinstein, An Economic History of South Africa: Conquest, Discrimination and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxiii + 302. ISBN‐10: 0521616417/ISBN‐13: 9780521616416. Hardback £45.00. ISBN: 0521616417/ISBN‐13:9780521616416. Paperback £19.99.
Reviewed by Bernard Attard
University of Leicester David Black and Lesley Wallace, (eds), John Curtin: Guide to Archives of Australia’s Prime Ministers. Canberra: National Archives of Australia and John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library, 2004. Pp. 241. ISBN: 1 920807 12 8. Paperback A$19.95.
Reviewed by David Day
La Trobe University Geoffrey Jones, Multinationals and Global Capitalism. From the Nineteenth to the Twenty‐first Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 340. ISBN 0 19 927210 7. Paperback £25.
Reviewed by John F. Wilson
University of Central Lancashire Douglas A. Farnie and David J. Jeremy (eds), The Fibre that Changed the World: The Cotton Industry in International Perspective, 1600–1990s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxiv + 614. ISBN: 0 19 925566 0. Hardcover £75.00.
Reviewed by J. S. Toms
University of York Gordon Boyce, Over Half a Million Careful Owners: A 75‐Year History of PSIS, 1928–2003. Wellington: Dunmore Publishing, 2005. Pp. 326, illustrations. ISBN: 0 476 0129 29. Paperback NZ$29.95.
Reviewed by David Tripe
Massey University Kaoru Sugihara (ed.), Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850–1949. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xv + 295. ISBN: 0 19 829271 6. Hardback A$250.
Reviewed by John Singleton
Victoria University of Wellington Morris L. Bian, The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change. Cambridge Mass: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 331. ISBN: 0 674 01717 X. Hardback US$45.00
Reviewed by Luigi Tomba
Australian National University Mario Tiberi, The Accounts of the British Empire: Capital Flows from 1799 to 1914. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. x + 183. ISBN: 0754639169. Hardback £50.
Reviewed by Bernard Attard
University of Leicester Rögnvaldur Hanneson, The Privatization of the Oceans. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2005. Pp. 224. ISBN 0‐262‐08334‐5. Hardback US$35.
Reviewed by Peter Cozens
Victoria University of Wellington Brian Costar, Peter Love and Paul Strangio (eds), The Great Labor Schism. A Retrospective. Melbourne: Scribe, 2005. Pp. 374. ISBN: 1‐920769‐42‐0. Hardback A$35.
Reviewed by James Bennett
University of Auckland     

Publications

The following highly controversial book, recently published in Australia, seemed to require two reviews. The Editor is grateful to Professors Feith and Papanek for accepting his invitation to prepare contrasting assessments.

Rex Mortimer (ed.), Showcase State: The Illusion of Indonesia's ‘Accelerated Modernisation’. Angus and Robertson, 1973, pp. 164.

D. H. Penny and M. Singarimbun, Population and Poverty in Rural Java: Some Economic Arithmetic from Sriharjo, Cornell International Agricultural Development Mimeograph 41, Ithaca, New York: Department of Agricultural Economics, May 1973, pp. 115. Single copies are available without charge from the publisher; additional copies are US$0.25 each. (A summary of an earlier draft was published under the title, “A Case Study of Rural Poverty”, BIES, March 1972.)

A. B. Neil, Indonesia in Transition. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1974. Recommended price $A4.15. Pp. 19.     

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