Book Reviews

Susan Toft (ed.), Compensation for Resource Development in Papua New Guinea Shinichi Ichimura, Political Economy of Japanese and Asian Development Myo Thant, Min Tang and Hiroshi Kakazu (eds), Growth Triangles in Asia Mario Rutten and Carol Upadhya (eds), Small Business Entrepreneurs in Asia and Europe Peter Van Diermen, Small Business in Indonesia Sung Gul Hong, The Political Economy of Industrial Policy in East Asia Anand Chandavarkar, Central Banking in Developing Countries Gavin W. Jones and Terence H. Hull (eds), Indonesia Assessment: population and human resources Garry Rodan, Kevin Hewison and Richard Robison (eds), The Political Economy of South-East Asia Maysing H. Yang (ed.), Taiwan's Expanding Role in the International Arena M. Adil Khan, Economic Development, Poverty Alleviation and Governance East Asia Analytical Unit (EAAU), The New ASEANS: Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia & Laos Chris Rowley (ed.), Human Resource Management in the Asia Pacific Region Gavin W. Jones and Pravin Visaria (eds), Urbanization in Large Developing Countries Chris Manning, Indonesian Labour in Transition Asian Development Bank, Asian Development Outlook 1997 and 1998 Jomo K. S. et al., Southeast Asia's Misunderstood Miracle Chris Dixon and David Drakakis-Smith (eds), Uneven Development in South East Asia Tony Fu-Lai Yu, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in Hong Kong Anne Booth, The Indonesian Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Harry J. Waters, China's Economic Development Strategies for the 21st Century Chan Heng Chee (ed.), The New Asia–Pacific Order Chia Siow Yue and Marcello Pacini (eds), ASEAN in the New Asia: issues & trends Chia Siow Yue and Joseph L. H. Tan (eds), ASEAN & EU: forging new linkages and strategic alliances Seiichi Masuyama, Donna Vandenbrink and Chia Siow Yue (eds), Industrial Policies in East Asia Pierre van der Eng, Agricultural Growth in Indonesia     

Book Reviews

Grahame Thompson (ed.), Economic Dynamism in the Asia-Pacific: the growth of integration and competitiveness Danny Unger, Building Social Capital in Thailand: fibers, finance and infrastructure Susan Horton (ed.), Women and Industrialization in Asia J. Thomas Lindblad, Foreign Investment in Southeast Asia in the Twentieth Century Wendy Dobson and Chia Siow Yue (eds), Multinationals and East Asian Integration Hal Hill and Thee Kian Wie (eds), Indonesia’s Technological Challenge Erhard Berner, Defending a Place in the City: localities and the struggle for urban land in Metro Manila H. W. Arndt, Essays in International Economics 1944-1994 Ramon Moreno and Gloria Pasadilla (eds), Asia: responding to crisis Wolfgang Pape (ed.), East Asia by the Year 2000 and Beyond: shaping factors Wang Gungwu and John Wong (eds), China’s Political Economy Haishun Sun, Foreign Investment and Economic Development in China: 1979-1996 Ian Chalmers and Vedi R. Hadiz (eds), The Politics of Economic Development in Indonesia: contending perspectives Ross H. McLeod and Ross Garnaut (eds), East Asia in Crisis: from being a miracle to needing one? Masahiko Aoki, Hyung-Ki Kim and Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara (eds), The Role of Government in East Asian Economic Development: comparative institutional analysis Linsu Kim, Imitation to Innovation: the dynamics of Korea’s technological learning Toh Mun Heng and Tan Kong Yam (eds), Competitiveness of the Singapore Economy: a strategic perspective     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Bob Catley and Vinsensio Dugis, Australian Indonesian Relations since 1945: the garuda and the kangaroo F. G. Adams and S. Ichimura (eds), East Asian Development: will the East Asian growth miracle survive? Edmund Terence Gomez, Chinese Business in Malaysia: accumulation,accommodation and ascendance Peter Searle, The Riddle of Malaysian Capitalism: rent-seekersor real capitalists? Carunia Mulya Firdausy (ed.), International Migration in Southeast Asia:trends, consequences, issues and policy measures Barry Eichengreen, Towards a New International FinancialArchitecture: a practical post-Asia agenda Karl D. Jackson (ed.), The Asian Contagion: the causes andconsequences of a financial crisis Peter Wolff, Vietnam—the incomplete transformation Richard W. Baker, M. Hadi Soesastro, J. Kristiadi andDouglas E. Ramage (eds), Indonesia: the challenge of change Geoff Forrester (ed.), Post-Soeharto Indonesia: renewal or chaos H. W. Arndt and Hal Hill (eds), Southeast Asia's Economic Crisis: origins, lessons and the way forward Manuel F. Montes and Vladimir V. Popov, The Asian Crisis Turns Global Max Corden, The Asian Crisis: is there a way out? Matsui Yayori, Women in the New Asia The Asia Strategy Project,Our Future with Asia: proposal for a SwedishAsia strategy Douglas Bullis, Preparing for Electronic Commerce in Asia Kae H. Chung; H. C. Lee and K. H. Jung, Korean Management: global strategy and cultural transformation Ron Duncan and Yiping Huang (eds), Reform of State-Owned Enterprises in China: autonomy, incentive and competition Hal Hill, Indonesia's Industrial Transformation Nicholas Tarling, Nations and States in Southeast Asia Joseph L. H. Tan (ed.), Human Capital as an Engine of Growth: the East Asian experience Yiping Huang, Agricultural Reform in China: gettinginstitutions right Leong Liew, The Chinese Economy in Transition Greg O'Leary (ed.), Adjusting to Capitalism: Chinese workers and the state     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this articles: In the Shadow of Agriculture Paul Alexander, Peter Boomgaard and Ben White (eds) New Silk Roads: East Asia and the world textile markets Kym Anderson (ed.) Balanced Development: East Java in the New Order Edited by Howard Dick, James J. Fox and Jamie Mackie Korea in the World Economy II Sakong Korean Economic Dynamism Dilip K. Das The Regulatory Impediments to the Private Industrial Sector Development in Asia: a comparative study Deena R. Khatkhate Informal Financial Markets in Developing Countries: a macroeconomic analysis Peter Montiel, Pierre-Richard Agénor and Nadeem Ul Haque Labour Markets and Human Resource Planning in Asia: perspectives and evidence M. Muqtada and A. Hildeman (eds) Human Resources in Development Along the Asia-Pacific Rim Naohiro Ogawa, Gavin W. Jones and Jeffrey G. Williamson Growth Mechanism of Developing Economies: investment, productivity and employment Kazushi Ohkawa, with Katsuo Otsuka and Bernard Key Business Cycles in Asia Hiroshi Osada and Daisuke Hiratsuka (eds) A Captive Land: the politics of agrarian reform in the Philippines James Putzel Indonesia: industrial growth and diversification The Poverty of Plenty Wang Xiaoqiang and Bai Nanfeng (trans. Angela Knox) Rural Reform and Peasant Income in China: the impact of China's post-Mao reforms in selected regions Zhu Ling Discrimination Against Agriculture in Developing Countries? Manfred Wiebelt, Roland Herrmann, Patricia Schenck and Rainer Thiele The Political Economy of Policy Reform John Williamson (ed.) Evolution of Asia-Pacific Economies: international trade and direct investment Ippei Yamazawa and Fu-Chen Lo (eds)     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this articles: Optirnisation of Agricultural Resource Use in Asia and the Pacific The World Rubber Industry Colin Barlow, Sisira Jayasuriya and C. Suan Tan Routledge The Newly Industrialising Economies of East Asia Anis Chowdhury and Iyanatul Islam Debating Singapore: reflective essays Edited by Derek Da Cunha Subsistence to Supermarket: food and agricultural transformation in Southeast Asia Five Small Open Economies Edited by R. Findlay and S. Wellisz Quand la riziEère rencontre I'ásphalte:…Semis urbain et processus d'urbanisation à Java-est (Indonesie) [When the paddy field meets the asphalt: The urban seed-bed and the process of urbanisation in East Java] Asia Pacific Regionalism: madings in international economic relations Ross Garnaut and Peter Drysdale Grain in China: a report Ross Garnaut and Guonan Ma Health Care In Asia: a comparative study of cost and financing Charles C Griffin Indonesia's New Order: the dynamics of socio-economic transformation Edited by Hal Hill Trade and Growth: a Korean perspective Wontack Hong Coming Full Circle: an economic history of the Pacific rim Eric Jones, Lionel Frost and Colin White Taxation and Economic Development Among Pacific Asian Countries Edited by R. A. Musgrave Foreign Direct Investment Relations Between the OECD and the Dynamic Asian Economies: the Bangkok Workshop Emerging Bond Markets in the Dynamic Asian Economies Technological Transformation in the Third World: Volume I: Asia Edited by S. J. Patel Avebury Contrasting Styles of Industrial Reform: China and India in the 1980s George Rosen Energy, Environment and the Oil Market: an Asia-Pacific perspective Edited by Shankar Sharma Sustainable Development of Small Island Economies Hiroshi Kakazu Hard Emes on Kairiru Island: poverty, development and morality in a Papua New Guinea village Michael French Smith Industry on the Move: causes and consequences of international relocation in the manufacturing industry Edited by Gijsbert van Liemt The Thai Economy in Transition Edited by Peter G. Warr China: foreign trade reform     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this articles:
Indonesia Assessment 1995: development in Eastern Indonesia Colin Barlow and Joan Hardjono (eds)
Transnational Corporations and the International Trade in Primary Commodities
Malay Farmers Respond Akimi Fujimoto
The Indonesian Economy Since 1966: Southeast Asia's emerging giant Hal Hill
Innovation in East Asia: the challenge to Japan Michael Hobday
Pacific Co-operation: building economic and security regimes in the Asia-Pacific region Andrew Mack and John Ravenhill (eds)
Labour Migration in Asia ASEAN Economic Bulletin, Special Focus, Volume 12(2) Philip L. Martin, Andrew Mason and Ching-lung Tsay (eds)
Catching Up with Asia's Tigers: Philippine trade and industrial policies Erlinda M. Medalla, Gwendolyn R. Tescon, Romeo M. Bautista, John H. Power
Survey of Impediments to Trade and Investment in the APEC region: a report by the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council for APEC
The Singapore Economy Gavin Peebles and Peter Wilson
Employment-Driven Industrial Relations Regimes: the Singapore experience Chew Soon Beng and Rosalind Chew
Nobel Economists: lives and contributions K. Puttaswamaiah
Financial Reform in China On Kit Tam (ed.)
AFTA in the Changing International Economy Joseph L. H. Tan (ed.)
Trading Partners: Australia and Asia 1790–1993 Sandra Tweedie
Fiscal Management and Economic Reform in the People's Republic of China Christine P. W. Wong, Christopher Heady, and Wing T. Woo
Financial Sector Development in Asia Shahid N. Zahid (ed.)     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this articles:
Mongolia: a centrally planned economy in transition
The Oil Boom and After: lndonesian economic policy and performance in the Soeharto era Edited by Anne Booth
Chinese Industrial Firms Under Reform Edited by William A. Byrd
Australia and Northeast Asia in the 1990s: accelerating change
Economic Reform and Internationalization: China and the Pacific Rim Edited by Ross Garnaut and Liu Guoguang
Regional Policy in a Changing World Niles Hansen, Benjamin Higgins and Donald Savoie
The West Pacific Rim: an introduction Rupert Hodder
Income Distribution in Thailand: its changes, causes and structure Yukio Ikemoto
The East-West Pendulum Robert Lloyd George
Rice Policy in Indonesia Scott Pearson, Walter Falcon, Paul Heytons, Eric Monke and Rosamond Naylor
The ASEAN Reader Compiled by K. S. Sandhu, Sharon Siddique, Chandran Jeshurun, Ananda Rajah, Joseph L. H. Tan and Pushpa Thambipillai     

Book Reviews

Mari Pangestu, Economic Reform, Deregulation, and Privatization: The Indonesian Experience, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta, 1996, pp. vi + 192. Rp 15,000.

Colin Barlow and Joan Hardjono (eds), Indonesia Assessment 1995: Development in Eastern Indonesia, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU, Canberra, and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 1996, pp, xxx + 287. S$29.90; US$25.00; A$25.00.

Kosuke Mizuno, Rural Industrialization in Indonesia: A Case Study of Community-Based Weaving Industry in West Java, IDE Occasional Paper Series no 31, Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo, 1996, pp. viii + 114.     

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Book reviewed:
Gordon Betcherman and Riswanul Islam, (eds) East Asian Labor Markets and the Economic Crisis: impacts, responses and lessons
Françoise Gérard and François Ruf, Agriculture in Crisis: people, commodities and natural resources in Indonesia 1996-2000
Gregory W. Noble and John Ravenhill, (eds) The Asian Financial Crisis and the Architecture of Global Finance
James Zhan and Terutomo Ozawa, Business Restructuring in Asia: cross-border M&As in the crisis period
Xiaoming Huang, The Political and Economic Transition in East Asia: strong market, weakening state
John A. Mathews and Dong-Sung Cho, Tiger Technology: the creation of a semiconductor industry in East Asia
A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, (ed.) Confronting Fiji Futures
Peter Drysdale, Yunling Zhang and Ligang Song, (eds) APEC and Liberalisation of the Chinese Economy
Heather Smith, (ed.) Looking Forward: Korea after the economic crisis
L. T. Jones and P. A. McGavin, Land Mobilisation in Papua New Guinea
Marcus Noland, Avoiding the Apocalypse: the future of the two Koreas
Delia Davin, Internal Migration in Contemporary China
On Kit Tam, The Development of Corporate Governance in China
Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song, (eds) China: twenty years of reform
Ramesh Adhikari and Ulrich Hiemenz, (eds) Achieving Financial Stability in Asia
Morris Goldstein, Graciela L. Kaminsky and Carmen M. Reinhart, Assessing Financial Vulnerability: an early warning system for emerging markets     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this articles:
The Philippines: the political economy of growth and impoverishment in the Mairos era James K. Boyce
Poverty, Growth and the Fiscal Crisis Emmanuel S. de Dios and Associates
Rural Enterprises in China Christopher Findlay, Andrew Watson and Harry X. Wu
Rural China in Transition: non-agricultural development in rural Jiangsu, 1978–1990 S. P. S. Ho
China, Modernisation and the Goal of Prosperity: government administration and economic policy in the late 1980s Kate Hannan (ed.)
China: internal market darelopment and regulation
The Economic Growth of Singapore: trade and development in the twentieth century W. G. Huff
Challenge and Response: thirty years of the Economic Development Board Helen Hughes, Linda Low, Toh Mun Heng, Soon Teck Wong and Tan Kong Yam
The Political Economy of Agricultural Pricing Policy, Volume 5: a synthesis of the political economy in developing countries Anne O. Krueger
Indonesia Assessment 1994. Finance as a Key Sector in Indonesia's Development Ross H. McLeod (ed.)
Debt, Deficits and Exchange Rates: essays on financial interdependence and development Helmut Reisen
A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia in the 1990s Adam Schwarz
Approaching Suharto's Indonesia fmm the Margins Takashi Shiraishi (ed.)
Telecommunications Sector Reform in Asia: toward a new pragmatism Peter L. Smith and G. Staple
ASEAN-China Economic Relations: industrial restructuring in ASEAN and China Joseph L. H. Tan and Luo Zhaohong (eds)
China's Coastal Cities: catalysts for modernization Yue-man Yeung and Xu-wei Hu (eds)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews Dani Rodrik (ed.), In Search of Prosperity: analytical narratives on economic growth . Dirk Steinwand and Martina Wiedmaier‐Pfister (eds), The Challenge of Sustainable Outreach: how can public banks contribute to outreach in rural areas? Five case studies from Asia . Takamasa Akiyama and Donald F. Larson (eds), Rural Development and Agricultural Growth in Indonesia, The Philippines and Thailand . Justin Yifu Lin, Fang Cai and Zhou Li, The China Miracle: development strategy and economic reform . Robert E. Rubin and Jacob Weisberg, In an Uncertain World: tough choices from Wall Street to Washington . Kathie Krumm and Homi Kharas (eds), East Asia Integrates: a trade policy agenda for shared growth . Andrew H. Wedeman, From Mao to Market: rent seeking, local protectionism and marketization in China . Brian Van Arkardie and Ray Mallon, Vietnam: a transition tiger? . Edward J. Lincoln, East Asian Economic Regionalism . Alice H. Amsden and Wan‐wen Chu, Beyond Late Development: Taiwan's upgrading policies .     

Book Reviews

Andrew MacIntyre (ed.), Business and Government in Industrialising Asia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1994, pp. xii + 312. Paper: A$29.95.

John Bresnan, From Dominoes to Dynamos: The Transformation of Southeast Asia, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, 1994, pp. x + 115. $17.95.

Anthony Reid, Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450–1680: Volume Two, Expansion and Crisis, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1993, pp. xv + 390.

Binhadi, Financial Sector Deregulation, Banking Development and Monetary Policy: The Indonesian Experience (1983–1993), Indonesian Bankers' Institute, Jakarta, 1995.

Anwar Shah and Zia Qureshi, with Amaresh Bagchi, Brian Binder, and Heng-fu Zou, Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Indonesia: Issues and Reform Options, World Bank Discussion Papers 239, Washington DC, pp. xxxii + 279. $17.95; A$425.00; NZ$30.25.

Jacqueline Vel, The Uma-economy: Indigenous Economics and Development Work in Lawonda, Sumba (Eastern-Indonesia), Wageningen, pp. xiv + 283. $20.00 + $8 postage & handling.

Joao Mariano de Sousa Saldanha, The Political Economy of East Timor Development, translated by Theresia Slamet and P.G. Kattopo, Pustaka Sinar Harapan, Jakarta, 1994, pp. 414.

Jan-Paul Dirkse, Frans H$uUsken and Mario Rutten (eds), Development and Social Welfare: Indonesia's Experiences under the New Order, KITLV Press, Leiden, 1993, pp. 267.

W.G. Huff, The Economic Growth of Singapore: Trade and Development in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994, pp. xxi + 472. A$60.

Saha Dhevan Meyanathan (ed.), Industrial Structures and the Development of Small and Medium Enterprise Linkages: Examples from East Asia, The World Bank (Economic Development Institute of the World Bank Seminar Series), Washington DC, 1994, pp. v + 158. Paper: $9.95.

Thee Kian Wie, Industrialisasi di Indonesia: Beberapa Kajian, LP3ES, Jakarta, pp. xxvi + 278 (including Introduction by Mari Pangestu).     

Book Reviews

Miyohei Shinohara and Fu-Chen Lo (eds), Global Adjustment and the Future of Asian-Pacific Economy, Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo: Asian and Pacific Development Centre and Institute of Developing Economies, 1989, pp. 585 + xxi, npg.

Frank J. Costa, Ashok K. Dutt, Laurence J.C. Ma and Allen G. Noble, Urbanization in Asia: Spatial Dimensions and Policy Issues, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989. US$44.

W. de Jong and F. van Steenbergen, Town and Hinterland in Central Java, Jogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press, 1987, pp. 250 + iv. Paper: Rp 7,000.

Bruce Mckern and Praipol Koomsup (eds), The Minerals Industries of Asean and Australia: Problems and Prospects, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1987, pp. 378 + xviii. Paper: $29.95.

Bruce Mckern and Praipol Koomsup (eds), Minerals Processing in the Industrialisation of Asean and Australia, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1988, pp. 388 + xvii. Paper: $29.95.

Mohamed Ariff and Tan Loong-Hoe (eds), The Uruguay Round: Asean Trade Policy Options, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1988, pp. 211 + xvi.

William R. Cline, The Future of World Trade in Textiles and Apparel, Institute for International Economics, Washington, 1987, pp. 325 + xiv. US$20.

Peter Drysdale, International Economic Pluralism: Economic Policy in East Asia and the Pacific, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1988, pp. 294. Paper $20; Cloth: $30.

Helen Hughes (ed.), Achieving Industrialization in East Asia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 377 + xviii. $59.50.

BRIEFLY NOTED: J. C. Conroy, Shelter for the Homeless: Asian-Pacific Needs and Australian Responses, Canberra: Australian Council for Overseas Aid Development Dossier No 22,1987, pp. 141 + vi.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Michael Borowitz, Elizabeth Wiley, Fadia Saadah and Enis Baris, Addressing HIV/AIDS in East Asia and the Pacific
Paul Glewwe, Nisha Agrawal and David Dollar (eds), Economic Growth, Poverty, and Household Welfare in Vietnam
Will Martin and Mari Pangestu, Options for Global Trade Reform: a view from the Asia-Pacific
P.J. Drake, Currency, Credit and Commerce: early growth in Southeast Asia
Myat Thein, Economic Development of Myanmar
Mark J. Scher and Naoyuki Yoshino (eds), Small Savings Mobilization and Asian Economic Development: the role of postal financial services
Michael D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor and Jeffrey G. Williamson (eds), Globalization in Historical Perspective
Mark Turner and Owen Podger with Maria Sumardjono and Wayan K. Tirthayasa, Decentralisation in Indonesia: redesigning the state
Vinay Bhargava and Emil Bolongaita, Challenging Corruption in Asia: case studies and a framework for action
Marie-Aimée Tourres, The Tragedy that Didn't Happen: Malaysia's crisis management and capital controls
Douglas H. Brooks and Hal Hill (eds), Managing FDI in a Globalizing Economy: Asian experiences
Takatoshi Ito and Anne O. Krueger (eds), Governance, Regulation and Privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviews in This Article: Joseph Lapalombara ed., Bureaucracy and Political Development. Manning Nash , The Golden Road to Modernity, Village Life in Contemporary Burma. V. V. Balabushevich & A. M. Dyakov eds., A Contemporary History of India, of India. Wilbur Schramm , Mass Media and National Development—The Role of Information in the Developing Countries. Hla Myint , The Economics of Developing Countries.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Eric Gordon, Eynsham Abbey, 1005-1228 M. W. Greenslade, ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England: a history of the county of Stafford, xiv: the city of Lichfield Richard Holt and Gervase Rosser, The English medieval town: a reader in English urban history, 1200-1540 Frank Musgrove, The north of England Richard S. Smith, Early coal-mining around Nottingham, 1500-1650 Barbara English, The great landowners of east Yorkshire, 1530-1910 David Levine and Keith Wrightson, The making of an industrial society: Whickham, 1560-1765 Phyllis Hembry, The English spa, 1560-1815: a social history Theodore Koditschek, Class formation and industrial society: Bradford, 1750-1850 Jane Fiske, ed., The Oakes diaries: business, politics and the family in Bury St Edmunds, 1778-1827. I. Introduction: lames Oakes’diaries, 1778-1800 James E. Bradley, Religion, revolution and English radicalism: non-conformity in eighteenth-century politics and society John Belchem, Industrialization and the working class: the English experience, 1750-1900 Jeffrey G. Williamson, Coping with city growth during the British industrial revolution Clark Nardinelli, Child labour and the industrial revolution Roderick Floud, Kenneth Wachter, and Annabel Gregory, Height, health and history: nutritional status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980 Alex Mercer, Disease, mortality and population in transition: epidemiological-demographic change in England since the eighteenth century as part of a global phenomenon John E. Archer, By a flash and a scare: arson, animal maiming, and poaching in East Anglia. 1815-1870 Michael Hunter and Robert Thorne, eds., Change at King's Cross R. J. Morris, Class, sect and party: the making of the British middle class. Leeds, 1820-1850 Cynthia Brown, Northampton, 1835-1985: shoe town, new town Dieter Ziegler, trans. Eileen Martin, Central bank, peripheral industry: the Bank of England in the provinces, 1826-1913 David McCrone, Stephen Kendrick, and Pat Straw, ed., The making of Scotland: nation, culture and social change Edgar Jones, A history of GKN, 2: the growth of the business, 1918-1945 G. H. Martin and Peter Spufford, eds., The records of the nation: the Public Record Office, 1838-1988: the British Record Society, 1888-1988 Harvey J. Kaye and Keith McClelland, eds., E. P. Thompson: critical perspectives GENERAL Richard Duncan-Jones, Structure and scale in the Roman economy Marc Boone, Geld en macht: de Gentse stadsfinancien en de Bourgondische staatsvorming, 1384-1453 Larry Neal, The rise of financial capitalism: international capital markets in the age of reason Lars T. Lih, Bread and authority in Russia, 1914-1921 Roger Pethybridge, One step backwards, two steps forward: Soviet society and politics under the new economic policy William Moskoff, The bread of affliction: the food supply in the USSR during World War II Georges Sabagh, ed., The modern economic and social history of the Middle East in its world context M. W. Daly, Imperial Sudan: the Anglo-Egyptian condominium, 1934-1956 Zbigniew A. Konczacki, Jane L. Parpart, and Timothy M. Shaw, eds., Studies in the economic history of southern Africa, I: the Front-Line States David J. Jeremy, Technology and power in the early American cotton industry: James Montgomery, the second edition of his‘Cotton manufacture’(1840), and the Justitia’controversy about relative power costs Tom Kemp, The climax of capitalism: the U.S. economy in the twentienth century Frank Griffith Dawson, The first Latin American debt crisis: The City of London and the 1822-25 loan bubble Mauricio Font, Coffee, contention, and change in the making of modern Brazil Dennis L. McNamara, The colonial origins of Korean enterprise, 1910-1945 Harold Blakemore, From the Pacific to La Paz: the Antofagasta Lawrence I. Conrad, ed., The formation and perception of the modern Arab world: studies by Marwan R. Buheiry M. Mann, ed., The rise and decline of the nation state Geoffrey Jones, ed., Banks as multinationals Bruna Ingrao & Giorgio Israel     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviews in this article Nai -Ruenn Chen , Chinese Economic Statistics: A Handbook for Mainland China Patrick O'Brien , The Revolution in Egypt's Economic System: From Private Enterprise to Socialism, 1952–1965 Harold C. Hinton , Communist China in World Politics. Alasdair I. Mac Bean , Export Instability and Economic Development. Stanley Diamond & Fred G. Burke eds., The Transformation of East Africa: Studies in Political Anthropology.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Tran Ngoc, Ca, Technological Capability and Learning in Firms: Vietnamese industries in transition
Bhanoji, Raom, East Asian Economies: the miracle, a crisis and the future
M., Ramesh and Mukul G., Asher, Welfare Capitalism in Southeast Asia: social security, health and education policies
Wang, Gungwu and John, Wong, (eds) Hong Kong in China: the challenges of transition
John H., Drabble, An Economic History of Malaysia, c. 1800–1990: the transition to modern economic growth
Gordon, de Brouwer, Financial Integration in East Asia
Gordon, de Brouwer and Wisarn, Pupphavesa, (eds) Asia Pacific Financial Deregulation
Jomo, K. S.; Greg, Felker and Rajah, Rasiah, (eds) Industrial Technology Development in Malaysia: industry and firm studies
Jomo, K. S. and Greg, Felker, (eds) Technology, Competitiveness, and the State: Malaysia's industrial technology policies
Colin, Barlow, (ed.) Institutions and Economic Change in Southeast Asia: the context of development from the 1960s to the 1990s
Gilberto M., Llanto; Rosario G., Manasan; Mario B., Lamberte; Jaime C., Laya, Local Government Units' Access to the Private Capital Markets
Paul D., Hutchcroft, Booty Capitalism: the politics of banking in the Philippines
Colin, Filer, (ed.) Dilemmas of Development: the social and economic impact of the Porgera Gold Mine 1989–1994
Theodore, Levantis, Papua New Guinea: employment, wages and economic development
T. S., Chan, (ed.) Consumer Behaviour in Asia: issues and marketing practice
Arsenio, Balisacan and Shigeaki, Fujisaki, (eds) Causes of Poverty: myths, facts and policies
Stephan, Haggard, The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis
Grant, Evans; Christopher, Hutton and Kuah Khun, Eng, (eds) Where China Meets Southeast Asia: social and cultural change in the border regions     

Book Reviews

Sheridan, Greg, Tigers: leaders of the new Asia-Pacific
Kuo, Shirley S. Y., Economic Policies: the Taiwan experience 1945–1995
Fletcher, Christine (ed.), Equity and Development Across Nations: political and fiscal realities
Laothamatas, Anek (ed.), Democratization in Southeast and East Asia
Bateman, Sam and Bates, Stephen (eds), Calming the Waters: initiatives for Asia Pacific maritime cooperation
Lee, Tae-Woo, Shipping Developments in Far East Asia: the Korean experience
Clark, Gordon, L. and Kim, Won Bae (eds), Asian NIEs and the Global Economy: industrial restructuring and corporate strategy in the 1990s
United Nations, Foreign Investment in Asian Stock Markets
Hanna, Nagy, Boyson, Sandor and Gunaratne, Shakuntala, The East Asian Miracle and Information Technology: strategic management of technological learning
Asian Development Bank, Sociocultural Issues and Economic Development in the Pacific Islands
Fairbairn, Te'o, I. J. and Worrell, DeLisle, South Pacific and Caribbean Island Economies: a comparative study
World Bank, Pacific Island Economies: building a resilient economic base for the twenty-first century
Rodan, Garry (ed.), Political Oppositions in Industrialising Asia
Yuen, Ng Chee, Freeman, Nick J. and Huynh, Frank, H. (eds), State Owned Enterprise Reform in Vietnam: lessons from Asia
Edwards, Ron and Skully, Michael (eds), ASEAN Business, Trade and Development: an Australian perspective
Cole, David, C. and Slade, Betty F., Building a Modern Financial System: the Indonesian experience
Clark, Cal and Roy, K. C., Comparing Development Patterns in Asia
Zhou, Zhang-Yue, Effects of Grain Marketing Systems on Grain Production: a comparative study of China and India
English, H. Edward and Runnals, David (eds), Environment and Development in the Pacific: problems and policy options
Mendelsohn, Robert and Shaw, Daigee (eds), The Economics of Pollution Control in the Asia Pacific     

Book Reviews

Howard Dick, James J. Fox and Jamie Mackie (eds), Balanced Development: East Java in the New Order, Oxford University Press, Singapore, 1993, pp. xxi + 367. Cloth: A$70.00.

Chris Manning and Joan Hardjono (eds), Indonesia Assessment 1993; Labour: Sharing in the Benefits of Growth? Political and Social Change Monograph 20, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, 1993, pp. xxi + 326. A$20.00.

Moh. Arsjad Anwar and Keiji Omura (eds), Local Development in Indonesia, Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo, 1994, pp. x + 131.

R.R. Piggott, K.A. Parton, E.M. Treadgold and B. Hutabarat, Food Price Policy in Indonesia, ACIAR Monograph No. 22, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, 1993, pp. 189. A$44.00.

I.M.D. Little, Richard M. Cooper, W. Max Corden and Sarath Rajapatirana, Boom, Crisis, and Adjustment: The Macroeconomic Experience of Developing Countries, Oxford University Press, New York, for the World Bank, 1993, pp. 455. $42.95.