Books Reviewed

Books reviewed in this article:
Crissman, Charles C., John M. Antle, and Susan M. Capalbo, eds. Economic, Environmental and Health Tradeoffs in Agriculture: Pesticides and the Sustainability of Andean Potato Production.
Deaton, Angus. The Analysis of Household Surveys: A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy.
Graham, Edward M., and J. David Richardson, eds. Global Competition Policy.
O'Rourke, Kevin H., and Jeffrey G. Williamson. Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth Century Atlantic Economy.     

REVIEWS*

Book reviewed in this article: BROW, J. and WEERAMUNDA, J. (eds.) (1992). Agrarian Change in Sri Lanka COKER, A. and RICHARDS, C. (eds.) (1992). Valuing the Environment CARTER, C. A., MCCALLA, A. F., and SHARPLES, J. A. (eds.) (1990). Imperfect Competition and Political Economy: The New Trade Theory in Agricultural Trade Research ELLIS, F. (1992). Agricultural Policies in Developing Countries. Wye Studies in Agricultural and Rural Development GILG, A. (ed.) (1992). Restructuring the Countryside: Environmental Policy in Practice HAZELL, P. B. R. and RAMASAMY, C. (eds.) (1992). The Green Revolution Reconsidered: the Impact of High-Yielding Rice Varieties in South India LIBBY, R. T. (1992). Protecting Markets: US Policy and the World Grain Trade MCINTIRE, J., BOURZAT, D. and PINGALI, P. (1992). Crop-Livestock Interaction in Sub-Saharan Africa OZANNE, A. (1992). Perverse Supply Response in Agriculture: The Importance of Produced Means of Production and Uncertainty PARDEY, P. G., ROSEBOOM, J. and ANDERSON, J. R. (eds.). Agricultural Research Policy: International Quantitative Perspectives. Published for the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) by Cambridge University Press TIMMER, P. (ed.) (1991). Agriculture and the State: Growth, Employment and Poverty in Developing Countries BROWN, M. and GOLDIN, I. (1992). The Future of Agriculture: Developing Country Implications. Development Centre Studies GILG, A. W., BRIGGS, D., DILLEY, R., FURUSETH, O. and MCDONALD, G. (eds.) (1992). Progress in Rural Policy and Planning. Volume 2 OECD (1992). Economic Accounts for Agriculture 1977–1990 OECD (1992). Business and Jobs in the Rural World OECD (1990). Partnerships in Rural Development WORLD BANK AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (1992). An Agricultural Strategy for Albania     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Tangermann, S. and Banse M, (eds) 2000. Central and Eastern European Agriculture in an Expanding European Union Antle, J. M. and Smith, V.H. (eds) 1999. The Economics of World Wheat Markets, CABI Publishing Johnson, R. W. M., with a commentary by R. Howarth. (2001). reforming EU Farm Policy: Lessons from New Zealand Grant, Wyn P. and Keller, John T. S. (eds). Agricultural Policy: Volume I – Agricultural Policy in Western Europe; Volume II – Agricultural Policy in Global Perspective OECD Agricultural Outlook 2005–2005     

Books Reviewed

Books reviewed:
Singer, S. Fred. Hot Talk Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate
Hogg, Dominic, ed. Technological Change in Agriculture: Locking in to Genetic Uniformity
Ingersent, Ken A., and A. J. Rayner. Agricultural Policy in Western Europe and the United States
Smil, Vaclav. Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century
Yang, Yongzheng and Tian, Weiming, eds. China's Agriculture at the Crossroad
Lal, Deepak. Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Factor Endowments, Culture, and Politics on Long-Run Economic Performance
Opschoor, J(Hans). B., Kenneth Button, and Peter Nijkamp, eds. Environmental Economics and Development
Hamilton, James T., and W. Kip Viscusi. Calculating Risks? The Spatial and Political Dimensions of Hazardous Waste Policy     

Book reviews

Books reviewed:
David A. Cleveland and Daniela Soleri (eds), Farmers, Scientists and Plant Breeding: Integrating Knowledge and Practice
Clem Tisdell, The Economics of Conserving Wildlife and Natural Areas
Derek Byerlee and Ruben G. Echeverría (eds), Agricultural Research Policy in an Era of Privatization
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents
Charles S. Pearson, Economics and the Global Environment     

Book reviews

Robert G. Chambers and John Quiggin, Uncertainty, Production, Choice, and Agency: The State-Contingent Approach
James D. Gaisford and William A. Kerr, Economic Analysis for International Trade Negotiations: The WTO and Agricultural Trade
Julian M. Alston, Philip G. Pardey and Michael J.Taylor, (eds.) Agricultural Science Policy: Changing Global Agendas
Jerry Ellig, (ed.) Dynamic Competition and Public Policy:Technology,Innovation,and Anti-trust Issues     

Book reviews

Books reviewed:
David Pearce, Corin Pearce, and Charles Palmer (eds), Valuing the Environment in Developing Countries
S. Hayden Lesbirel and Daigee Shaw (eds), Managing Conflict in Facility Siting
Kym Anderson and Will Martin (eds), Agricultural Trade Reform & the Doha Development Agenda
Joseph Cooper (ed.), Global Agricultural Policy Reform and Trade: Gains and Losses     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Atkin, M. (1993). Snouts in the Trough: European Farmers, the Common Agricultural Policy and the Public Purse. Bassett , T. J. and Crummey , D. E. (eds.) (1993). Land in African Agrarian Systems. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. D'Antonio , W. V., Sasaki , M. and Yonebayashi , Y. (eds.) (1994). Ecology, Society and the Quality of Social Life. Gibbon , P., Havnevik , K. J. and Hermele , K. (1993). Blighted Harvest- The World Bank and African Agriculture in the 1980s. London: James Currey Ltd and New Jersey: Africa World Press. Hamdar , B. C. (1993). The Relationship Between Agricultural Policy and Forestry in the Southern Region of the United States. Hoff , K., Braverman , A. and Stiglitz , J. (eds.) (1993). The Economics of Rural Organisation: Mac Arthur , J. D. and Weiss , J. (eds.) (1994). Mori , H. and Lin , B-H. (1994). Japanese Beef Market: Distinctly Unique. Senshu University Press. Taylor , C. R., Reichelderfer , K. H. and Johnson , S. R. (eds.) (1993).     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Christopher A. Conte, Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania's Usambara Mountains .
Alfredo Saad-Filho and Deborah Johnston (eds.), Neoliberalism: A Critical Reader .
Stephen J. Russell, Agriculture, Prosperity and Modernization of French Rural Communities, 1870–1914. Views from the Village .
David Mosse, Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice .
Kees Jansen and Sietze Vellema (eds), Agribusiness and Society: Corporate Responses to Environmentalism, Market Opportunities and Public Regulation .
Gareth Austin, Labour, Land and Capital in Ghana: From Slavery to Free Labour in Asante, 1807–1956 .     

Books Reviewed

Books reviewed:
Julian M. Alston, Philip G. Pardey and Vincent H. Smith, (eds.) Paying for Agricultural Productivity
P.K. Rao, The Economics of Global Climatic Change
Bernard Salanie, The Economics of Contracts: A Primer
Raisuddin Ahmed, Steven Haggblade and Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, (eds.) Out of the Shadow of Famine: Evolving Food Markets and Food Policy in Bangladesh
Lyle P. Schertz and Otto C. Doering III, The Making of the 1996 Farm Act
Joseph A. Herriges and Catherine L. Kling, Valuing Recreation and the Environment
James R. Prescott, Paul Van Moeseke and Jati Sengupta, (eds.) Urban-Regional Economics, Social System Accounts, and EcoBehavioural Science, Selected Writings of Karl A. Fox
Brent M. Haddad, Rivers of Gold: Designing Markets to Allocate Water in California
J. M. Antle, J. N. Lekakis and G. P. Zenias, (eds.) Agriculture, Trade and the Environment: The Impact of Liberalization on Sustainable Development
J. Barkley Rosser Jr., From Catastrophe to Chaos: A General Theory of Economic Discontinuities: Mathematics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Finance     

REVIEWS*

Book reviewed in this article: CAMPBELL, B. M. S. and OVERTON, M. (eds.) (1991). Land, Labour and Livestock: Historical Studies in European Agricultural Productivity CHAMPION, T. and WATKINS, C. (eds.) (1991). People in the Countryside: Studies of Social Change in Rural Britain DOORNBOS, F., VAN DORSTEN, F., MITRA, M. and TERHAL, P. (1990). Dairy Aid and Development: India's Operation Flood. Indo-Dutch Studies on Development Alternatives, Volume 3 DOORNBOS, M. and NAIR, K. N. (eds.) (1990). Resources, Institutions and Strategies: Operation Flood and Indian Dairying. Indo-Dutch Studies on Development Alternatives, Volume 4 GRANT, W. (1991). The Dairy Industry: An International Comparison MARSDEN, T. and LITTLE, J. (eds.) (1990). Political, Social and Economic Perspectives on the International Food System MARSH, J., GREEN, B., KEARNEY, B., MAHE, L., TANGERMANN, S. and TARDITI, S. (1991). The Changing Role of the Common Agricultural Policy: The Future of Farming in Europe NISBET, E. G. (1991). Leaving Eden: To Protect and Manage the Earth SIMON, J. L. (1989). Population Matters: Resources, Environment and Irrigation SMITH, M. J. (1990). The Politics of Agricultural Support in Britain. Aldershot: Dartmouth/Gower ANDERSON, K. and TYERS, R. (1991). Global Effects of Liberalising Trade in Farm Products. Trade Policy Research Centre, Thames Essay No. 55 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT, UNIVERSITY OF READING (1991). Management Matters in 1991. Study No. 26 ERRINGTON, A. and TRANTER, R. (1991). Getting Out of Farming? Part Two: The Farmers. Study No. 27. Department of Agriculture and Department of Agricultural Economics and Management GASSON, R. and HILL, G. P. (1990). An Economic Evaluation of the Farm Woodland Scheme. FBU Occasional Paper No. 17. Ashford: Farm Business Unit, Department of Agricultural Economics HAVERKORT, B., VAN DER KAMP, J. and WALTERS-BAYER, A. (eds.) (1991). Joining Farmers' Experiments: Experiences in Participatory Technology Development HUDSON, R. J.? DREW, K. R. and BASKIN, L. M. (eds.) (1989). Wildlife Production Systems: Economic Utilisation of Wild Ungulates. Cambridge Studies in Applied Ecology and Resource Management HYDE, W. F. and NEWMAN, D. H. (1991). Forest Economics and Policy Analysis: An Overview. World Bank Discussion Papers 134 JENKINS, T. N. (1990). Future Harvests: The Economics of Farming and the Environment: Proposals for Action. Report to the Council for the Protection of Rural England and the World-Wide Fund for Nature (UK) ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (1991). The Apple Market in OECD Countries ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (1991). Changes in Cereals and Dairy Policies in OECD Countries: A Model-Based Analysis TEKLU, T., VON BRAUN, J. and ZAKI, E. (1991). Drought and Famine Relationships in Sudan: Policy Implications. Research Report 88. Washington: International Food Policy Research Institute WORLD BANK (1991). World Development Report 1991: The Challenge of Development     

REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article: GOLDWIN, I. and WINTERS, L. A. (eds.) (1992). Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture HAZELL, P. B. R. and RAMASAMY, C. (eds.) (1991). The Green Revolution Reconsidered: The Impact of High-Yielding Rice Varieties in South India JODHA, N. S., BANSKOTA, M. and PARTAP, T. (1992). Sustainable Mountain Agriculture. Vol. 1 Perspectives and Issues JODHA, N. S., BANSKOTA, M. and PARTAP, T. (1992). Sustainable Mountain Agriculture. Vol. 2 Farmers' Strategies and Innovative Approaches KRUEGER, A. (1992). The Political Economy of Agricultural Pricing Policy. Volume 5. A Synthesis of the Political Development in Developing Countries LESSER, W. (1993). Marketing Livestock and Meat. New York: Food Products Press (Haworth Press) MARK, J. and STRANGE, R. (1993). The Food Industries: Review of United Kingdom Statistical Sources, Volume XXVIII. London: Chapman and Hall on behalf of the Royal Statistical Society and the Economic and Social Research Council METTRICK, H. (1993). Development Oriented Research in Agriculture: An ICRA Textbook. Wageningen: International Centre for Development Orientated Research in Agriculture (ICRA) RAYNER, A. J. and COLMAN, D. (eds.) (1993). Current Issues in Agricultural Economics SCHIFF, M. and VALDÉS, A. (1992). The Political Economy of Agricultural Pricing Policy, Volume 4, A Synthesis of the Economics in Developing Countries, Baltimore TRACY, M. (1993). Food and Agriculture in a Market Economy: An Introduction to Theory, Practice and Policy TRIPP, R. (ed.) (1992). Planned Change in Farming Systems: Progress in On-Farm Research CÉCORA, J. (ed.) (1993). Economic Behaviour of Family Households in an International Context. Bonn: Society for Agricultural Policy Research and Rural Sociology (FAA) HILL, B. and BROOKES, B. (1993). Farm Incomes in the European Community in the 1980s. Document Series     

REVIEWS*

Book reviewed in this article: BOTOS, E. P. (ed.) (1991). Vine and Wine Economy: Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Kecskemet CAIRNCROSS, F. (1991). Costing the Earth. London: Business Books and Economist Books CLAY, E. and STOKKE, O. (eds.) (1991). Food Aid Reconsidered: Assessing the Impact on Third World Countries GILG, A. W. (1991). Countryside Planning Policies for the 1990s. Wallingford: CAB International HANLEY, N. (ed.) (1991). Farming and the Countryside - An Economic Analysis of External Costs and Benefits HENDRIKS, G. (1991). Germany and European Integration; The Common Agricultural Policy - An Area of Conflict MIDMORE, P. (ed.) (1991). Input-Output Models in the Agricultural Sector RITSON, C. and HARVEY, D. (eds.) (1991). The Common Agricultural Policy and the World Economy: Essays in Honour of John Ashton WILLIAMS, J. C. and WRIGHT, B. D. (1991). Storage and Commodity Markets DAVIS, J. (1991). The Competitiveness of the Northern Ireland Dairy Sector: An Analysis of Industry Structure and Performance HEIJMAN, W. J. M. and KRABBE, J. J. (eds.) (1992). Issues of Environmental Economic Policy HODGE, I. and MONK, S. (1991). Targeting Rural Areas for Special Assistance: The RDAs and Alternative Approaches HOLDEN, D., HAZELL, P. and PRITCHARD, A. (eds.) (1991). Risk in Agriculture: Proceedings of the Tenth Agriculture Sector Symposium MARSHALL, B. J. (ed.) (1992). Sustainable Livestock Farming into the 21st Century. CAS Paper 25. Reading: University of Reading, Centre for Agricultural Strategy OECD (1991). The Soviet Agro-Food System and Agricultural Trade: Prospects for Reform. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD (1992). Agricultural Policies, Markets and Trade: Monitoring and Outlook 1992. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development     

REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article: BIL, A. (1990). The Shieling - 1600–1840: The Case of the Central Scottish Highlands BULLER, H. and WRIGHT, S. (1990). Rural Development: Problems and Practices BURRELL, A. (ed.) (1989). Milk Quotas in the European Community CHAMBERS, R., PACEY, A. and THRUPP, L. A. (eds.) (1989) COLLIER, P., RADWAN, S. and WANGWE, S. with WAGNER, A. (1990.) Labor and Poverty in Rural Tanzania: Ujamaa and Rural Development in the United States Republic of Tanzania COLLINS, E. J. T., GILES, A. K. and MALLESON, J. G. K. (eds.) Innovation and Conservation JOHNSON, P. M. (1989) Redesigning the Communist Economy: The Politics of Economic Reform in Eastern Europe KRUEGER, A. O., MICHALOPOULOS, C. and RUTTAN, V. W. (1989). Aid and Development Baltimore: Johns Hopkins CHATHIE, J. (1989) Food Aid and Industrialisation. Aldershot: Gower LOWE, P. and BODIGUEL, M. (eds.) (1990). Rural Studies in Britain and France ROMERO, C. and REHMAN, T. (1989). Multiple Criterion Analysis for Agricultural Decisions. Amsterdam: Elsevier ADAMOLEKUN, L. (1989). Issues in Development Management in Sub-Saharan Africa. EDI Policy Seminar Report, No. 19 Economic Development Institute of the World Bank CURRAN, T. (1990). The Theory and Practice of Agricultural Policy. EDI Policy Seminar Report, No. 24. Economic Development Institute of The World Bank ISLAM, N. (1990). Horticultural Exports of Developing Countries: Past Performance, Future Prospects, and Policy Issues. Research Report 80. Washington, D. C NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (1989). Investing in Research: A Proposal to Strengthen the Agricultural Food, and Environmental System. Washington, D.C NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (1989). Food Aid Projections for the Decade of the 1990s. Washington D.C.: National Academy Press (marketed and distributed by John Wiley VAN DEN NOORT, P. C. (1990). Costs and Benefits of Agricultural Policies and Projects. Proceedings of the 22nd Symposium of the European Association of Agricultural Economics, October 1989, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PLUSQUELLEC, H. (1990). The Gezira Irrigation Scheme in Sudan: Objectives, Design and Performance SHAWKI, B. and LE MOIGNE, G. (eds.) (1990): Irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Development of Public and Private Systems WORLD BANK (1990). Agricultural Marketing: The World Bank's Experience, 1974–85. Washington: The World Bank, Operations Evaluation Department     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: VAN DEN Ban , A. W. and Hawkins , H. S. (1988). Colman , D. and Lee , Cooper , A. F. (1989). British Agricultural Policy 1912-36: A Study in Conservative Politics. Dooney , S. (1988). Irish Agriculture: Lee , R. D., Arthur , W. B., Kelley , A. C., Rodgers , G., and Srinivasan , T. N. (eds.) (1988). Nadkarni , M. V. with Syed Ajmal Pasha and Prabhakar , L. S. (1989). Repetto , R. and Gillis , M. (eds.) (1988). Public Policies and the Misuse of Forest Resources. Sagoff , M. (1988). The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law and the Environment. Tarditi , S., Thomson , K. J., Pierani , P. and Croci -Angelini , E. (eds.) (1989). Brief Note: Anderson , J. R. and Hazell , P. B. R. (eds.) (1989). Variability in Grain Yields: Implications for Agricultural Research and Policy in Developing Countries. Brief Note: Crittenden , R. and Lea , D. A. M. (1989). Integrated Rural Development Programmes in Papua New Guinea. Brief Note: Longworth , J. W. (ed.) (1989). China's Rural Development Miracle, With International Comparisons. Brief Note: OECD (1989). Agricultural Policies, Markets and Trade: Monitoring and Outlook 1989.     

REVIEWS*

Book reviewed in this article: BURGER, K., DE GROOT, M., POST, J. and ZACHARIASSE, V. (eds.) (1991). Agricultural Economics and Policy: International Challenges for the Nineties: Essays in Honour of Prof. Jan de Veer HINTON, W. L. (1991). The European Market for Fruit and Vegetables JUSSAUME, R. A. JR. (1991). Japanese Part-Time Farming: Evolution and Impacts PORTER, D., BRYANT, A. and THOMPSON, G. (1991). Development in Practice POTTER, C., BURNHAM, P., EDWARDS, A., GASSON, R. and GREEN, B. (1991). The Diversion of Land: Conservation in a Period of Farming Contraction ROMERO, C. (1991). Handbook of Critical Issues in Goal Programming WINTER, L. A. and SAPSFORD, D. (eds.) (1991). Primary Commodity Prices: Economic Models and Policy ANSELL, D. J., GILES, A. K. and RENDELL, J. (1991). Very Small Farms: ‘A Distinctive Role?’ Special Studies in Agricultural Economics Report No. 16 ARKLETON TRUST (RESEARCH) LTD. (1991). Rural Change in Europe: Structural Policies and Multiple Job Holding in the Rural Development Process. Papers from the second review meeting at Braemar, 1989 BOWERS, J. (1990). Agriculture and Rural Land Use: Into the 1990s CRAMER, G. L. and JENSEN, C. W. (1991). Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness GREELEY, M. (1991). Postharvest Technologies: Implications for Food Policy Analysis. EDI Development Policy Case Series, Analytical Case Studies, Number 7 MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD. (1991). Fifty Years of the National Food Survey. 1940–1990 VAN OORT, G. M. R. A., VAN DEN BERG, L. M., GROENENDIJK, J. G. and KEMPERS, A. H. H. M. (eds.) (1991) TRACY, M. (ed.) (1991). Farmers and Politics in France WARREN, D. M. (1991). Using Indigenous Knowledge in Agricultural Development. World Bank Discussion Papers No. 127 WISE, T. E. (ed.) (1991). Agricultural and Food Research - Who Benefits? CAS Paper 23 YOUNG, M. D. (ed.) (1991). Towards Sustainable Agricultural Development     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Toward a New Political Economy of Agriculture:Friedland, W. H., L. Burch, F. D. Butte1 and A. R. Rudy (eds.) Farming for Farmers? A Critique of Agricultural Support Policy (2nd ed.):R. W. Howarth Storage and Commodity Markets J. C. Williams and B. D. Wright Economic Models of Agricultural and Conservation and Environmental Improvement: Earl 0. Heady (ed.), G. F. Vocke Chinese Grain Economy and Policy: Chen Liang Yu, Allan Buckwell Co-operative and Community Development: Economies in Social Perspective B. Fairbairn, J. Bold, M. Fulton, L. Hammond Ketilson, D. Ish.     

Books Reviewed

Books reviewed:
Brack, Duncan, Michael Grubb and Craig Windram, International Trade and Climate Change Policies
Challen, Ray, Institutions, Transaction Costs and Environmental Policy: Institutional Reform for Water Resources
Dragun, Andrew K. and Clem Tisdell, (eds.) Sustainable Agriculture and Environment: Globalisation and the Impact of Trade Liberalisation
Sen, Amartya, Development as Freedom
Grabowski, Richard, Pathways to Economic Development
Koutstaal, Paul, Economic Policy and Climate Change: Tradable Permits for Reducing Carbon Emissions     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Dynamic Programming: Applications to Agriculture and Natural Resources. By John 0. S. Kennedy Specification Analysis in the Linear Model (In Honour of Donald Cochrane). By Maxwell King and David E. A. Giles (eds). Rural New Zealand: What Next? By L. Tim Wallace and Ralph Lattimore (eds) Food Policy Analysis in Thailand. By Theodore Panayotou (ed.) What PriceFarm Budgets? By L. R. Malcolm and J. P. Makeha     

Book reviews

Books reviewed:
Colin Green, Handbook of Water Economics Principles and Practices
B. Davis, T. Reardon, K. Stamoulis & P. Winters (eds), Promoting farm non-farm linkages for rural development: case studies from Africa and Latin America
Jean Baptiste Lesourd and Steven Schilizzi, The Environment in Corporate Management: New Directions and Economic Insights
Christopher Essex and Ross McKitrick, Taken by Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming
Warwick J. McKibbin and Peter J. Wilcoxen, Climate Change Policy after Kyoto: Blueprint for a Realistic Approach