BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed Alistair Greig, Frank Lewins and Kevin White, Inequality in Australia. Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xxvi + 261, bibliography, index. ISBN: 0 521 81891 5. Hardback $99.00. ISBN: 0 521 52442 3. Paperback $44.95. Gavin McLean, Rocking the Boat – A History of Scales Corporation Limited. Christchurch: Hazard Press, 2002. Pp. 324, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN: 1 877270 40 7. Hardback NZ$59.95. Chris Nixon and John Yeabsley, New Zealand's Trade Policy Odyssey: Ottawa, via Marrakech, and On. Wellington: NZ Institute of Economic Research, 2002. Pp. xi + 239, tables, index. ISBN: 0 908969 11 2. NZ$18.00. Robin Haines, Life and Death in the Age of Sail: The Passage to Australia. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2003. Pp. 368. ISBN: 0868405493. Hardback A$49.95. Sir Frank Holmes, The Thoroughbred Among Banks in New Zealand: Banking in New Territory, 1984–2000. Wellington: The National Bank of New Zealand, 2003. Pp. xiv + 266. ISBN: 0 473 09946 2. Price not available. James Reveley, Registering Interest: Waterfront Labour Relations in New Zealand. 1953 to 2000. Research in Maritime History No. 25. St. John’s, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2003. Pp. viii + 170. ISBN: 0 9730073 5 4. Paperback US$15. Dennis O. Flynn, Arturo Giráldez and Richard van Glahn, (eds.), Global Connections and Monetary History, 1470–1800. Aldershot UK and Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. xiii + 209. ISBN: 0 7546 3213 X. Hardback £47.50. John Chown, A History of Monetary Unions. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 321, notes, index. ISBN: 0 415 27737 X. Hardcover NZ$262.95. Warren J. Samuels, Jeff E. Biddle and John B. Davis, A Companion to the History of Economic Thought. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. Pp. xvii + 712. ISBN: 0 631 22573 0. Hardback £99.99. Dan Usher, Political Economy. Malden USA, Oxford UK and Carlton Australia: Blackwell, 2003. Pp. xx + 427. ISBN: 0 631 23333 4. Hardback US$74.95. ISBN: 0 631 23334 2. Paperback US$39.95. Gordon Boyce and Richard Gorski, (eds.), Resources and Infrastructures in the Maritime Economy, 1500–2000. St John’s, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2002. Pp. ix + 161. ISBN: 0 9730073 2 X. Softcover US$15. Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore, The Size of Nations. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2003. Pp. x + 261. ISBN: 0 262 01204 9. Hardback US$35.00.     

The Transformation of Australia's Population, 1970–2030

Book reviewed
Siew-Ean Khoo and Peter McDonald, (eds), The Transformation of Australia's Population, 1970–2030. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2003. Pp. xi + 302, index. ISBN: 0868405027. Paperback $49.95. Reviewed by Glenn Withers Australian National University     

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     

Corporate Collapse. Accounting, Regulatory, and Ethical Failure

Book reviewed
Frank Clarke, Graeme Dean and Kyle Oliver, Corporate Collapse. Accounting, Regulatory, and Ethical Failure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, revised edition, 2003. Pp. xxviii + 383. ISBN: 0 521 53426 7. Paperback $49.95. Reviewed by Gordon Boyce Queensland University of Technology     

Rats and Revolutionaries: The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand 1890–1940

Book reviewed
James Bennett, Rats and Revolutionaries: The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand 1890–1940. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2004. Pp. 214, illustrations. ISBN: 1877276499. Paperback NZ$39.95. Reviewed by Jim McAloon Lincoln University     

The European Miracle

Book reviewed
Eric Jones, The European Miracle . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 3rd edition, 2003. Pp. 301, index. ISBN: 052152783X. Paperback A$49.95. Reviewed by Geoff Bertram Victoria University of Wellington     

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     

The Big End of Town: Big Business and Corporate Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia

Book reviewed
Grant Fleming, David Merrett and Simon Ville, The Big End of Town: Big Business and Corporate Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. viii + 310. ISBN: 0 521 83311 6. Hardback $59.99. Reviewed by Leslie Hannah University of Tokyo     

European Banking Overseas, 19th−20th Century

Book reviewed
Ton de Graaf, Joost Jonker and Jaap-Jan Mobron, (eds), European Banking Overseas, 19th−20th Century. Amsterdam: ABN AMRO Historical Archives, 2002. Pp. 309 + Index. ISBN: 9076618143. €30.00. Reviewed by Niv Horesh Australian National University     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed
George Megalogenis, The Longest Decade . Melbourne: Scribe, 2006. 346 pp. ISBN: 1 920769 79 X. Paperback A$32.95. Reviewed by James Bennett University of Newcastle
Leonie V. Still, Corporate Elders –'Organisation Men' Look Back . Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2006. 235 pp. ISBN: 1 920694 61 7. Paperback A$39.95. Reviewed by Peter Carroll University of Tasmania
William Coleman, Selwyn Cornish and Alf Hagger, Giblin's Platoon: The Trials and Triumphs of the Economist in Australian Public Life . Canberra: ANU E-Press, 2006. xv + 263 pp. ISBN (print): 1 920942 49 1. ISBN: 1 920942 50 5. A$24.95, free access online. Reviewed by Gary Hawke Victoria University of Wellington
Helen B. Laurenson, Going Up, Going Down: The Rise and Fall of the Department Store . Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006 reprint (2005). 165 pp. ISBN: 86940 341 X. Paperback NZ$34.99. Reviewed by S.R.H. Jones University of Dundee
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, World Investment Report 2005: Transnational Corporations and the Internationalization of R&D . New York and Geneva: United Nations, 2005. xxxii + 332 pp. ISBN: 92 1 112667 3. US$75. Reviewed by Paul L. Robertson University of Tasmania/University of Queensland
Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy, The 'Vanity of the Philosopher': From Equality to Hierarchy in post-Classical Economics . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. xviii + 323 pp. ISBN: 0 472 11496 4. Hardback US$40. Reviewed by John Singleton Victoria University of Wellington
Derek H. Aldcroft, Europe's Third World: The European Periphery in the Interwar Years . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 217 pp. ISBN: 0 7546 0599 X. Hardback £50. Reviewed by Kirsten Wandschneider Middlebury College     

Sail and Steam: Selected Maritime Writings of Yrjo Kauliainen

Book reviewed
Lars U. Scholl and Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen, (compilers), Sail and Steam: Selected Maritime Writings of Yrjo Kauliainen. St John's, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2004. Pp. xviii + 266, illustrations, tables. ISBN: 0 9730073 7 0. Paperback US$15.00. Reviewed by Gavin McLean Ministry for Culture & Heritage, Wellington     

The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump

Book reviewed
Theo Balderston, (ed.), The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump. Palgrave: Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xii + 226. ISBN: 0 333 73864 0. Hardback £55.00. Reviewed by W. R. Garside University of Otago     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed Simon Guttmann, The Rise and Fall of Monetary Targeting in Australia. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2005. xvi + 332 pp. ISBN: 1 74097 073 X. Paperback $39.95.
Reviewed by Peter Stemp
Australian National University John Singleton, Arthur Grimes, Gary Hawke and Frank Holmes, Innovation and Independence: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand 1973–2002. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006. xii + 340 pp. ISBN: 1 86940 364 9. Hardback NZ $49.99.
Reviewed by Paul D. Mizen
University of Nottingham Ann M. Woodall, What Price the Poor? William Booth, Karl Marx and the London Residuum. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. xii + 233 pp. ISBN: 0 7546 4203 8. Hardback £50.
Reviewed by John Singleton
Victoria University of Wellington Madeleine Zelin, The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xxiv + 404 pp. ISBN: 0 231 13596 3. Hardback US $45.00.
Reviewed by Tim Wright
University of Sheffield     

Publications

International Rice Research Institute Economic Consequences of the New Rice Technology, Los Banos, 1978. $6.90 plus postage, (developing countries $2.70) pp. 402.

Philip J. Eldridge, Indonesia and Australia: The Politics of Aid and Development Since 1966, Development Studies Monograph No. 18, Australian National University Press, Pp. 233 + xviii. $8.00.

Robin J. Pryor, Migration and Development in South-East Asia: A Demographic Perspective. Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur. pp. xxi + 354. $27.00 (paper), $50.00 (hardcover).

Van Setten van der Meer, N.C. Sawah Cultivation in Ancient Java, Oriental Monograph Series No. 22, Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1979. ppxx + 168. $A6.95.     

The City and the Railway in Europe

Book reviewed
Ralf Roth and Marie-Noëlle Polino, (eds), The City and the Railway in Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. 324. ISBN: 0 7546 0766 6. Hardback £45.00. Reviewed by Gerald Crompton University of Kent     

The Economic Effects of Constitutions

Book reviewed
Torsten Perrson and Guido Tabellini, The Economic Effects of Constitutions. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003. Pp. 320. ISBN: 0 262 16219 9. Hardback US$35.00. Reviewed by Lewis Evans Victoria University of Wellington     

Governance, Regulation and Privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region

Book reviewed
Taktoshi Ito and Anne. O. Kreuger, (eds), Governance, Regulation and Privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region. Chicago and London: National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 480. ISBN: 0 226 38679 1. Hardback US$95.00. Reviewed by Robert Millward University of Manchester     

NOTES ON BOOKS RECEIVED

BURNS (ARTHUR F.) (Ed.). Wesley Clair Mitchell. The Economic Scientist .
ZIMMERMAN (ERICH W.). World Resources and Industries .
THE SOUTH AFRICAN COMPANIES ACTS. By ARTHUR SUZMAN. Cape Town: Juta & Company, 1953. Pp. xv + 512. Price 52s. 6d.
WORLD RESOURCES AND INDUSTRIES. Revised Edition by ERICH W. ZIMMERMAN. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1951. Pp. 800. Price $7.50.
WESLEY CLAIR MITCHELL. The Economic Scientist . Edited by ARTIIUR F. BURNS. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1952. Pp. viii + 385. $4.00.     

Currency, Credit and Commerce: Early Growth in Southeast Asia

Book reviewed
Peter J. Drake, Currency, Credit and Commerce: Early Growth in Southeast Asia. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. 257, index. ISBN: 0 7546 3450 7. Hardcover £55.00. Reviewed by Howard Dick University of Melbourne     

The Life and Times of J. Neville Keynes: A Beacon in the Tempest

Book reviewed
Phyllis Deane, The Life and Times of J. Neville Keynes: A Beacon in the Tempest. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2001. Pp. xvii + 313. ISBN: 1 84064 534 2. Hardback £69.00. Reviewed by Athol Fitzgibbons Griffith University