Book Reviews

G. Hanafi Sofyan (ed.), Indonesia dalam Transisi [Indonesia in Transition], Halmahera Foundation, 1995, pp. vii + 308.

David Lim, Expinining Economic Growth: A New Annlyticnl Framework, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1996, pp. xiv + 248. £35.95.     

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Alan S. Milward and George Brennan Britain's Place in the World. A Historical Enquiry into Import Controls
Jens Laage-Hellman Business Networks in Japan: Supplier–Customer Interaction in Product Development
Frank-Jurgen Richter, ed. The Dynamics of Japanese Organisations
Roger Middleton Government versus the Market. The Growth of the Public Sector, Economic Management and the British Economic Performance, c. 1890–1979
Graham Dunkley The Free Trade Adventure: The Uruguay Round and Globalism – A Critique
Pierre van der Eng Agricultural Growth in Indonesia: Productivity Change and Policy Inpact since 1880
John Sinleton The World Textile Industry     

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Radius Prawiro (1998), Indonesia's Struggle for Economic Development: Pragmatism in Action, Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur, pp. xxvi + 374.

Yujiro Hayami (1997), Development Economics: From the Poverty to the Wealth of nations, Clarendon Press, Oxford, pp. xx + 316. A$160.00.     

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Books reviewed in this article: A. D. M. Phillips and C. B. Phillips, eds., A new historical atlas of Cheshire Philip Riden, ed., The Victoria history of the counties of England: a history of the county of Northampton G. J. Benson and L. Ugolini, eds., A nation of shopkeepers: five centuries of British retailing Stanley Chapman, Hosiery and knitwear: four centuries of small‐scale industry in Britain. c.1589–2000 Peter Borsay and Lindsay Proudfoot, eds., Provincial towns in early modern England and Ireland: change, convergence and divergence John Cramsie, Kingship and Crown finance under James VI and I, 1603–1625 Matthew and George Culley, Travel journals and letters, 1765–1798 John Cantrell and Gillian Cookson, eds., Henry Maudslay and the pioneers of the machine age Desmond Greer and James W. Nicolson, The factory acts in Ireland, 1802–1914 Charles K. Rawding, The Lincolnshire wolds in the nineteenth century Derek J. Oddy, From plain fare to fusion food: British diet from the 1890s to the 1990s Alan Fowler, Lancashire cotton operatives and work, 1900–1950: a social history of Lancashire cotton operatives in the twentieth century Martin Daunton, Just taxes: the politics of taxation in Britain, 1914–1979 Becky E. Conekin, ‘The autobiography of a nation’: the 1951 Festival of Britain Andrea Rusnock, Vital accounts: quantifying health and population in eighteenth‐century England and France Martin Horn, Britain, France, and the financing of the First World War Mark Cioc, The Rhine: an eco‐biography, 1815–2000 Helena Hamerow, Early medieval settlements: the archaeology of rural communities in north‐west Europe, 400–900 Martina De Moor, Leigh Shaw‐Taylor, and Paul Warde, eds., The management of common land in north west Europe, c. 1500–1850 Johan Söderberg and Janken Myrdal, The agrarian economy of sixteenth‐century Sweden John Armstrong and Andreas Kunz, eds., Coastal shipping and the European economy, 1750–1980 Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, Class theory and history: capitalism and communism in the USSR Virginia G. Drackman, Enterprising women: 250 years of American business W. Carl Bliven, Jimmy Carter's political economy: policy in an age of limits Colin M. Lewis, Argentina: a short history Maurice Wright, Japan's fiscal crisis: the Ministry of Finance and the politics of public spending, 1975–2000 Zhaojin Ji, A history of modern Shanghai banking: the rise and decline of China's finance capitalism Linsun Cheng, Banking in modern China: entrepreneurs, professional managers, and the development of Chinese banks, 1897–1937 Ts'ui‐jung Liu, James Lee, David Sven Reher, Osamu Saito, and Wang Feng, eds., Asian population history Andrea Colli, The history of family business, 1850–2000 Eric Helleiner, The making of national money: territorial currencies in historical perspective     

Book Reviews

Michael T. Skully, Merchant Banking in ASEAN: A Regional Examination of its Development and Operations. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1983, pp. x + 200.

Anwar Nasution, Financial Institutions and Policies in Indonesia, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1983, pp. xvi + 182.

R. M. Bautista and S. Naya (eds), Energy and Structural Change in the Asia-Pacific Region. Manila: Philippine Institute for Development Studies and Asian Development Bank, 1984, pp. xxii + 532.

Charles A. Coppel, Indonesian Chinese in Crisis, Asian Studies of Australia, Southeast Asian Publications Series No. 8, Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1983. pp. xvii + 236. $24.95 (cloth). $13.95 (paper).

Avé, J., V. King and J. de Wit, West Kalimantan: a bibliography, Leiden: Koninklijke Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 1983. Dfl. 30.     

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.     

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Hadi Soesastro and Man Pangestu (eds), Technological Challenge in the Asia-Pacific Economy, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, in Association with the Pacific Trade and Development Conference Secretariat at the Australian National University, 1990, pp. xiv + 371. A$34.95.

Jeffrey D. Sachs and Susan M. Collins (eds), Developing Country Debt and Economic Performance, Voi 3: Country Studies - Indonesia, Korea, Philippines, Turkey. Book I: Wing Thye Woo and Anwar Nasution, Indonesian Economic Policies and Their Relation to External Debt Management, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1989, pp: x + 821 (Book I, pp. 17-149).

Yoon-Je Cho and Deena Khatkhate, Lessons of Financial Liberalization in Asia: A Comparative Study, Washington DC: The World Bank, 1989, pp. xviii + 228.

Nick Devas (with Brian Binder et al.), Financing Local Government in Indonesia, Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series, No, 84, Athens, OH: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1989, pp. xvi + 344. US$14.00.

James Clad, Behind the Myth: Business, Money and Power in Southeast Asia, London: Unwin Hyman, 1989, pp. xii + 275. £14.95.

Lea Jellinek, The Wheel of Fortune: The History of a Poor Community in Jakarta, Asaa Southeast Asia Publications Series 18, 1991, pp. xxviii + 214. A$24.95.

Daniel Benoit, Patrice Levang, Marc Pain and Olivier Sevin, Transmigration et Migrations Spontanees en Indonesie [Transmigration and Spontaneous Migrations in Indonesia]: Propinsi Lampung, Paris and Jakarta: Orstom (Institut Francais de Recherche Scientifique pour le Developpement en Cooperation) and Department of Transmigration, 1989, bilingual text in French and English, pp. 444, large Size (21 × 30 cm), + 20 separate maps (50 × 56 cm) + wall map (100 × 118 Cm).

J. W. Taco Bottema, Hoky Siregar, Sahat M. Pasaribu, Govert Gijsbers and Rofik S. Basuki, Potato in Indonesia: Prospects for Medium Altitude Production, CGPRT No. 21, Bogor: CGPRT, 1989, pp. xxvi + 136.

CGPRT, Soybean Commodify System in Indonrsio. CGPRT No. 3, Bogor. CGPRT, 1988, pp. xvi + 83.

BRIEFLY NOTED: H.W. Arndt, Pembangunan Ekonomi Indonesia: Pandangan Seorang Tetangga [Indonesian Economic Development: As Seen by a Neighbour], Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press, 1991 [translation edited by Mubyarto], pp. xi + 286.

David Anderson (Ed.), Australia and Indonesia: A Partnership in the Marking, Sydney: Pacific Research Institute, 1991, pp. 63. A$5.00.     

Book Reviews

book reviewed in this article
BATRA, R. N. The Downfall of Capitalism and Communism. London
BORNSTEIN, M. (ed.). Comparative Economic. Systems: Models and Cases. 4th edition. Homewood: Richard D. Irwin.
COHEN, B. J., Organizing the World's Money. London: Macmillan
Institute of International Studies of the University of California
REYNOLDS, Lloyd G. Image and Reality in Economic Development. New Haven and London
SCOTT, M. F. G., MacArthur, J. D., and Newbury, D. M. G. Project Appraisal in Practice. London:
WIJNHOLDS, J. A. H. de B. The Need for International Reserves and Credit Facilities. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff
WINCH, Donald. Adam Smith's Politics. An essay in historiographic revision.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Great Britain and Ireland Old age in English history: past experiences, present times, Virginia Berridge Women in medieval English society, P.J.P Goldberg Trade, urban hinterlands and market integration, Phillipp Schofield Historical accounting records: a guide for archivists and researchers, Marianne Pitts The development of agrarian capitalism: land and labour in Norfolk, 1440‐1580, Christorpher Dyer Figures in the landscape: rural society in England, 1500‐1700, Adam Fox Migration and society in Britain, 1550‐1830, Peter Clark British clubs and societies, 1580‐1800: the origins of an associational world, Craig Muldrew Nature contested: environmental history in Scotland and northern England since 1600, Ian Whyte The development of London as a financial centre, Forrest Capie The country housewife’s family companion (1750), Joan Thirsk Nature’s governement: science imperial Britain, and the ’improvement’ of the world, John Gascoigne Gales: a study in brewing, business and family history, Terry Gourvish Fighting words: working‐class formation, collective action, and discourse in early nineteenth‐century England, Owen Jackson Striking a bargain: work and industrial relations in England, 1815‐1865, Julian Davies Patterns of philanthropy, charity and society in nineteenth‐century Bristol, Alan Kidd Merchants to multinationals: British trading companies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Peter Cain The global cigarette, origins and evolution of British American Tabacco, 1880‐1945, B.W.E. Alford Poor women’s lives: gender, work, and poverty in late‐Victorian London, Sheila Blackburn More than munitions: women, work and the engineering industries, 1900‐1950:, Gail Braybon Austerity in Britain: rationing, controls, and consumption, 1939‐1955, Peter Howlett March of the matrons: military influence on the British civilian nursing profession, 1939‐1969, Peter Mohr The British economy since 1945: engaging with the debate, Scott Newton Crises revolutions: and self‐sustained growth: essays in European fiscal history, 1130‐1830, Henry Roseveare The rise of cites in north‐west Europe, Gervase Rosser Privilege and the politics of taxation in eighteenth‐century France; liberté, fiscalité, Morag Martin Histoire agraire de la France au XVIIIe siècle: inerties et changments dans les capagnes françaises entre 1715 et 1815, Hugh Clout French anti‐slavery: the movement for the abolition of slavery in France, 1802‐1848, Pamela Pilbeam The modernist enterprise: French elites and the threat of modernity, 1900‐1940, Jackie Clarke Industrial culture and bourgeois sociey: business, labour, and bureaucracy in modern Germay, Joseph Melling The chameleon state: hlobal culture and policy shifts in Britain and Germany, 1914‐1933, Theo Balderston An economic history of Sweden, Ollie Krantz Silver, trade and war: Spain and America in the making of early modern Europe, Henry Kamen Imagining consumers: design and innovation from Wedgewood to Corning, Cheryl Buckley Reinventing free labor: padrones and immigrant workers in the Norh American West, 1880‐1930,Karen Jones Boodless victories: the rise and fall of the open shop in the Philadelphia metal trades, 1890‐1940, Neil A. Wynn Essays on the great depression, Peter Fearon Airline excutives and federal regulation: case studies in American enterprise from the airmail era to the dawn of the jet age, Michael French Modern forests: statemaking and environmental change in colonial eastern India, John M. Mackenzie The Japanese economy, John F. Wilson Australia in the global economy: coninunity and change, Bernard Attard The great divergence: Europe, China and the making of modern world economy, Philip Richardson Terms of labor: slavery, serdom, and free labor,Kenneth Morgan The legacy of Frederich von Hayek, vols I: Politics; II: Philosophy; III, Economics, Roger Middleton The challenge of global captalism: the world economy int 21st century, Clive H. Lee General Mark Ormrod, Margaret Bonney, & Richard Bonney, eds. Crises, revolutions and self‐sustained growth Adriaan Verhulst. The rise of cities in north‐west Europe Michael Kwass. Privilege and the politics of taxation in eighteenth‐century France Gérard Béaur. Histoire agraire de la France au XVIIIe siècle Lawrence C. Jennings. French anti‐slavery Marjorie A. Beale. The modernist enterprise Jürgen Kocka. Industrial culture and bourgeois society Tien‐lung Liu. The chameleon state Lars Magnusson. An economic history of Sweden Stanley J. Stein & Barbara H. Stein. Silver, trade and war Regina Lee Blaszczyk. Imagining consumers Gunther Peck. Reinventing free labor Howell John Harris. Bloodless victories Ben S. Bernanke. Essays on the great depression W. David Lewis, ed. Airline executives and federal regulation K. Sivaramakrishnan. Modern forests David Flath. The Japanese economy David Meredith & Barrie Dyster. Australia in the global economy Kenneth Pomeranz. The great divergence Stanley L. Engerman, ed. Terms of labor Peter J. Boettke, ed. The legacy of Frederich von Hayek Robert Gilpin with Jean Millis Gilpin. The challenge of global capitalism     

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Mohamed Ariff and Hal Hill, Export-Oriented Industrialisation: The ASEAN Experience, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1985, pp. 270. Aus$ 19.95

David Lim (ea.), ASEAN-Australian Trade in Manufactures, Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1985, pp. xii + 263

Kathryn May Robinson, Stepchildren of Progress: The Political Economy of Development in an Indonesian Mining Town, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986, pp. xvi + 315.

Gillian Hart, Power, Labor and Livelihood: Processes of Change in Rural Java, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986, pp. xvi + 228. US$ 30.00

Walter P. Falcon, William O. Jones, Scott R. Pearson and others, The Cassava Economy of Java, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984, pp.xvii + 212. $US 38.50.

Randolph Barker, Robert W. Herdt with Beth Rose, TheRice Economy of Asia, Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 1985, pp. xx + 324 $US 30 (hardcover), $US 12 (paper).

C.W. Watson, Kerinci: Two Historical Studies, Canterbury: University of Kent, Centre of South-cast Asian Studies Occasional Paper No.3, 1984, pp.63.

Asia Pacific Report: Trends, Issues, Challenges, Honolulu: East-West Center, University of Hawaii, 1986, pp. x + 104.

B.L. Greenshields and M.A. Bellamy (eds), Rural Development, Growth and Inequity, International Association of Agricultural Economists Occasional Paper No. 3, Aldershot: Gower, 1983, pp.viii + 312.

Masami Mizuno, Population Pressure and Peasant Occupations in Rural Central Java, Canterbury: University of Kent, Centre of South-east Asian Studies Occasional Paper No. 4, 1985, pp.71.     

Book Reviews

Moh Arsyad Anwar (ed.), Prospek dan Permasalahan Ekonomi Indonesia 1985/86 [The Indonesian Economy in 1985/86: Prospects and Problems], Jakarta: Sinar Harapan (for the Fakultas Ekonomi Universitas Indonesia), 1985, pp. 383.

Michael T. Skully (ed.), Financial Institutions and Markets in South-East Asia: A Study of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, London: Macmillan, 1984, pp. xviii + 411. $72.00 (cloth).

Philip M. Hauser, Daniel B. Suits and Naohiro Ogawa (eds), Urbanization and Migration in ASEAN Development, Tokyo: National Institute for Research Advancement, 1985. $25.00 (paper).

John P. Lea and John M. Courtney (eds), Cities in Conflict: Studies in the Planning and Management of Asian Cities, Washington D.C.: The World Bank, 1985.

Gavin W. Jones (ed.), Women in the Urban and Industrial Workforce: Southeast and East Asia, Development Studies Centre Monograph No. 33. Canberra: The Australian National University, 1984, pp. xi + 435.

G. Chandler, Market Trade in Rural Java, Monash Papers on Southeast Asia No. 11, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University, 1984, pp. xii + 198.

Jan Breman, Control of Land and Labour in Colonial Java, Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde No. 101, Dordrecht: Foris, 1983, pp. xi = 159. Dfl 40 (paper).     

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Book reviewed in this article:
PERKINS, J. O. N.: The Sterling Area, The Commonwealth and World Economic Growth, University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Economics, Occasional Papers 11, University Press
FINDLAY, RONALD: Trade and Specialization (Penguin Education, 1970), pp. 140 (R0.85). SWANN, D.: The Economics of the Common Market (Penguin Education
SOLOW, R. M.: Growth Theory: An Exposition. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1970
FOX, K. and JOHNSON, D. (Eds.): Readings in the Economics of Agriculture. George Allen and Unwin Ltd. (1969)
GOLD, Joseph: The stand-by arrangements of the International Monetary Fund
NARKIEWICZ, Olga A.: The Making of the Soviet State Apparatus. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1970
WILCZYNSKI, J.: The Economics of Socialism. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1970. pp
MINCHINTON, W. E. (editor): The Growth of English Overseas Trade. (Methuen, London
PERKINS, J. O. N.: International Policy for the World Economy. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., London
GERSCHENKRON, Alexander: Europe in the Russian Mirror: Four Lectures in Economic History. Cambridge University Press
ANDREANO, R. L. (ed.): The New Economic History. Wiley & Sons     

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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