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Rubin, Paul H. Managing Business Transactions: Controlling the Cost of Coordinating, Communicating, and Decision Making.
Lawry, P. Employment Disputes and the Third Party.
Porter, Michael. The Competitive Advantage of Nations.
Robert G. Dyson. Strategic Planning: Models and Analytical Techniques.
De Woot, Phillipe. High Technology Europe: Strategic Issues for Global Competitiveness.     

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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.     

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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.)     

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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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BRITISH MONETARY POLICY, 1945–51 Susan Howson
THE RED QUEEN SEX AND THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN NATURE Matt Ridley
PROFILES IN SMALL BUSINESS: A COMPETITIVE STRATEGY APPROACH Gavin C. Reid, Lowell R. Jacobsen and Margo E. Anderson     

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RESURRECTING MARX: THE ANALYTICAL MARXISTS ON FREEDOM, EXPLOITATION AND JUSTICE David Gordon.
BEYOND THE WELFARE STATES: AN EXAMINATION OF BASIC INCOMES IN A MARKET ECONOMY Samuel Brittan and Steven Webb.
OWNERSHIP, CONTROL AND THE FIRM, Voll Harold Demsetz.
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AMERICAN MONETARY POLICY T. Mayer (Ed.)
ADAM SMITH AND MODERN ECONOMICS: FROM MARKET BEHAVIOUR TO PUBLIC CHOICE Edwin West Edward Elgar.
IF YOU' RE SO SMART: THE NARRATIVE OF ECONOMIC EXPERTISE Donald N. McCloskey.
MACRO ECONOMICS Michael Parkin.
PRIVATISATION IN LESS-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES Paul Cook and Colin Kirkpatrick (Eds.)
BANKS AND INDUSTRIAL FINANCE IN BRITAIN 1800–1939 Michael Collins.     

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A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF DISSENTING ECONOMISTS Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer (Eds.)
EOUITY AND CHOICE Julian Le Grand Harper-Collins.
ORIGIN AND ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT Paul A Menkveld
UK FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND MARKETS Michael Pawley, David Winstone & Patrick Bentley.
THE MORALITY OF BUSINESS Norman Barry Aberdeen.
THE NEW PALGRAVE: THE WORLD OF ECONOMICS John Eatwell, Murray Milgate & Peter Newman (Eds.)
THE ECONOMIC IDEAS OF ORDINARY PEOPLE: FROM PREFERENCES TO TRADE David M. Levy
GOVERN MENT AND ECONOMIES IN THE POSTWAR WORLD: ECONOMIC POLICIES AND COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE 1945–85 Andrew Graham with Anthony Seldon
PROTECTIONISM AND INTERNATIONAL BANKING Gerhard Fels & George Situja.
THE CITY OF LONDON: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE, 1850–1990 Ranald C. Michie
THE LIFE OF AN ECONOMIST Charles P. Kindleberger
PARLIAMENT OF WHORES P.J. O'Rourke Picador.     

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HIGGLING: TRANSACTORS AND THEIR MARKETS IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS Neil de Marchi and Mary S. Morgan (eds.)
THE POWER OF LIFE OR DEATH: A CRITIQUE OF MEDICAL TYRANNY Fabian Tassano
TRUST: THE SOCIAL VIRTUES AND THE CREATION OF PROSPERITY Francis Fukuyama
THE LIFE OF ADAM SMITH Ian Simpson Ross
CENTURIES OF ECONOMIC ENDEAVOR: Parallel Paths in Japan and Europe and Their Contrast with the Third World John P. Powelson     

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A FINANCIAL HISTORY OF WESTERN EUROPE Charles P. Kindleberger
EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS: POST-SCHUM-PETERIAN CONTRIBUTIONS Esben Sloth Andersen
HAYEK ON HAYEK, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL DIALOGUE F.A. Hayek, edited by Stephen Kresge & Leif Wenar
PUBLIC ECONOMICS (Selected Papers by William Vickrey) Richard Arnott, Kenneth Arrow, Anthony B. Atkinson and Jacques H. Dreze (eds)     

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HEATED DEBATE Robert C. Balling Jr
FOUNDATIONS OF CORPORATE SUCCESS: HOW BUSINESS STRATEGIES ADD VALUE John Kay
NEW IDEAS FROM DEAD ECONOMISTS Todd G. Buchholz
AMERICAN POWER, THE MEW WORLD ORDER AND THE JAPANESE CHALLENGE William R. Nester
US ECONOMIC POLICY TOWARD AFRICA Jeffrey Herbst
POST-KEYNESIAN ESSAYS IN BIOGRAPHY: PORTRAITS OF 20th CENTURY POLITICAL ECONOMISTS G.C. Harcourt
PRACTICAL ECONOMETRICS Gabor Korösi, Laszlo Matyas, and Istvan P. Szekely     

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THE NEW PALGRAVE DICTIONARY OF MONEY AND FINANCE Peter Newman, Murray Milgate & John Eatwell (Eds)
POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ON THE INTERNATIONAL FOOD SYSTEM T. Marsden & J. Little Avebury
ROBERTSON ON ECONOMIC POLICY S.R. Dennison & John R. Presley (Eds)
ESSAYS ON ROBERTSON-IAN ECONOMICS John R. Presley (Ed.)
GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ECONOMICS Robert E. Kuenne
TRANSFORMATIONAL GROWTH & EFFECTIVE DEMAND Edward J. Nell
THE ANATOMY OF THATCHERISM Shirley Robin Letwin
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES: VOLUME II: THE ECONOMIST AS SAVIOUR, 1920–37 Robert Skidelsky
PUTTING FOOD ON WHAT WAS THE SOVIET TABLE Michael P. Claudon & Tamar L. Gutner (Eds)
DRAGONS IN DISTRESS: ASIA'S MIRACLE ECONOMIES IN CRISIS Walden Bello & Stephanie Rosenfeld     

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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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GLOBAL EFFECTS OF LIBERALISING TRADE IN FARM PRODUCTS K. Anderson and R. Tyers
THE STRATEGY & CONSISTENCY OF FEDERAL RESERVE MONETARY POLICY 1924–1933 David C. Wheelock
DIVERSE PATHS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Richard Pomfret
EUROPEAN EXPANSION AND MIGRATION P.C. Emmer and M. Mörner (Eds.)
ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS, VOLUME 4: WOMEN'S WORK IN THE WORLD ECONOMY Nancy Folbre, Barbara Bergmann, Bina Agarwal and Maria Flora (Eds.)
EXCHANGE RATE TARGETS & CURRENCY BANDS Paul Krugman and Marcus Miller (Eds.)
THE EVOLUTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL MONETARY SYSTEMS Alfred Steinherr and Daniel Weisherbs (Eds.)
THE LEGACY OF THE GOLDEN AGE-THE 1960s AND THEIR ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES Frances Cairncross and Alec Cairncross
BEYOND THE LIMITS: GLOBAL COLLAPSE OR A SUSTAINABLE-FUTURE Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows and Jorgen Randers
THE FORTUNES OF LIBERALISM; VOLUME IV OF THE COLLECTED WORKS OF F.A. HAYEK Peter G. Klein (Ed.)
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY; THE BUILDING OF A UNION John Pinder
FORESTS: MARKETS & INTERVENTION FAILURES: FIVE CASE STUDIES SÖren Wibe and Tom Jones (Eds.)
FEDERALISM IMPERIL: WILL CANADA SURVIVE A.R. Riggs and Tom Velk
DEN OF THIEVES James B. Stewart
PRICES AND KNOWLEDGES: A MARKET-PROCESS PERSPECTIVE Esteban F. Thomsen
FROM BOOM TO BUST: TRIAL AND ERROR IN BRITISH ECONOMIC POLICY David Smith     

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THE STATE IS ROLLING BACK Arthur Seldon
A GAME WITHOUT VISION D. Corry, P. Williamson with S. Moore
PAYING THE PIPER: CULTURE. MUSIC AND MONEY Alan Peacock     

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CONSERVATISM Ted Honderich Hamish Hamilton
ELEPHANTS, ECONOMICS AND IVORY Edward B. Barbier, Joanne C. Burgess, Timothy M. Swanson and David W. Pearce
TAX REFORM: THE RICH AND THE POOR Joseph A Pechman
FOR THE COMMON GOOD: REDIRECTING THE ECONOMY TOWARD COMMUNITY, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb, Jr.     

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SMALL BUSINESS ENTERPRISE: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS Gavin C. Reid     

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THE NEW CLASSICAL MACRO-ECONOMICS Kevin D.Hoover.
REAL WORLD ECONOMICS Christopher Huhne Macmillan.
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN APPLIED ECONOMICS Graham Bird and Heather Bird.
FRONTIERS OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH Phyllis Dean (Ed.) .
MONETARISM AND THE KEYNESIANS Christopher Johnson [Ed.]
BRITAIN'S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS AND POLICIES IN THE 1990s Ken Coutts, Wynne Godley, Bob Rowthorn and Gennaro Zezza.
ECONOMIC PLANNING IN TRANSITION; SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING IN POSTSOCIALIST AND CAPITALIST SOCIETIES Janos Kovacs and Bruno Dallago (Eds.)
THE HISTORY OF ECONOMETRIC IDEAS Mary S. Morgan.
FIGHTING THE WAR OF IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA John Goodman and Ramona Marotz-Baden (Eds.)
THE ROAD TO A FREE ECONOMY, SHIFTING FROM A SOCIALIST SYSTEM: THE CASE OF HUNGARY Janos Kornai.     

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THEORY AND MEASUREMENT: CAUSALITY ISSUES IN MILTON FRIEDMAN'S MONETARY ECONOMICS J. Daniel Hammond
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ECONOMIC REFORM IN RUSSIA, 1985–94 Vladimir Mau
JUST BUSINESS: BUSINESS ETHICS Elaine Sternberg
PRIVATISING RUSSIA Maxim Boycko, Andrei Schleifer and Robert Vishny
CLASSICAL LIBERALISM: THE UNVANQUISHED IDEAL David Conway
DISINTEGRATING EUROPE: THE TWILIGHT OF THE EUROPEAN CONSTRUCTION Noriko Hama
SHAMANS, SOFTWARE AND SPLEENS: LAW AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY James Boyle     

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Book reviewed in this article: THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRATIC CAPITALISM Michael Novak UNEMPLOYMENT: A PROBLEM OF POLICY G.D.N. Worswick THE STATE AND THE ECONOMY UNDER CAPITALISM Adam Przeworski. THE AMERICAN SAVINGS AND LOAN CRISIS: A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME IN THE US FINANCIAL INDUSTRY? Stanley F. Beraznik.     

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ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: PUBLIC COSTS, PRIVATE REWARDS Fred Smith and Michael Greve
MARKET MOVERS: UNDERSTANDING AND USING ECONOMIC INDICATORS FROM THE BIG FIVE ECONOMIES Mark Jones & Ken Ferris
IRVING FISHER: A BIOGRAPHY Robert Loring Allen
REIGN OF ERROR: A STUDY OF TAX TYRANNY THERE MUST BE A BETTER WAY: SOME COMMENTS ON TAX LAW AND ADMINISTRATION W. J. Horner