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The Books Reviewed in this Article: Investment Climate around the World: Voices of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey by Geeta Batra, Daniel Kaufmann, and Andrew H. W. Stone, Washington, D.C., World Bank, 2003, xvi + 154 pp. The Philippine Economy: Development, Policies, and Challenges edited by Arsenio M. Balisacan and Hal Hill, Quezon City, Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2003, xxv + 466 pp. Reintegrating India with the World Economy by T. N. Srinivasan and Suresh D. Tendulkar, Washington, D.C., Institute for International Economics, 2003, xiv + 167 pp. Market Institutions in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Theory and Evidence by Marcel Fafchamps, Comparative Institutional Analysis, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2004, xx + 521 pp. Birth Control in China, 1949–2000: Population Policy and Demographic Development by Thomas Scharping, London, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, xvi + 406 pp.     

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The Books Reviewed in this Article: Catching Up and Falling Behind: Post‐Communist Transformation in Historical Perspective by David A. Dyker, London, Imperial College Press, 2004, viii + 379 pp. Managing FDI in a Globalizing Economy: Asian Experiences edited by Douglas H. Brooks and Hal Hill, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, xx + 340 pp. Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases by Michael Kremer and Rachel Glennerster, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2004, xiv + 153 pp.     

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Book Reviewed in this article: The Gene Hunters: Biotechnology and the Scramble for Seeds by Calestous Juma, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press and London, Zed Books, 1989, xiv + 288 pp.     

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Books Reviewed in this article: The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire by Michael G. Schatzberg, Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1988, xiv+193 pp. Lectures on Developing Economies: Japan's Experience and Its Relevance by Kazushi Ohkawa and Hirohisa Kohama, Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 1989, xv+324 pp.     

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Books Reviewed in this article: Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists: Methodological Issues in Measuring Economic Change in Rural India edited by Pranab Bardhan, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1989, ix+288 pp. South Africa's Foreign Policy: The Search for Status and Security, 1945–1988 by James Barber and John Barratt, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990, x+398 pp.     

Book Reviews

Ruth McVey (ed.), Southeast Asian Capitalists, Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1992, pp. 218.

Joan Hardjono (ed.), Indonesia: Resources, Ecology and Environment, Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. xvi + 262. Cloth: A$50; £25.

Chris Dixon, South East Asia in the World-Economy: A Regional Geography, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. xv + 281. Paper: A$29.95; Cloth: npg.

Kym Anderson (ed.), New Silk Roads: East Asia and World Textile Markets, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, for the Trade and Development Series, National Centre for Development Studies, Australian National University, 1992, pp. xxvi + 24. A559.50.

K. S. Sandhu et al. (comps), The ASEAN Reader, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1992, pp. xxvi + 582.

Kim Seung Jin and Suh Jang-Won (eds), Cooperation in Small and Medium-Scale Industries in ASEAN, Kuala Lumpur: Asian and Pacific Development Centre, 1992, pp. xiv + 389.     

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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     

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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     

Book Reviews

Hendra Esmara (ed.), Teori Ekonomi Dan Kebijaksanaan Pembangunan: Kumpulan Esei Untuk Menghargai Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, Jakarta: P.T. Gramedia, 1987, pp. 645 + xxx, npg.

Khong Cho Oon, The Politics of Oil in Indonesia: Foreign Company-Host Government Relations, LSE Monographs in International Studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, pp. 253 + x, $89,00.

Hal Hill, Foreign Investment and Industrialization in Indonesia, Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1988, pp. 179 + xxi, $34.50.     

Book Reviews

Hal Hill, The Indonesian Economy since 1966: Southeast Asia's Emerging Giant, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1996, pp. xv + 319. Cloth: A$90; paper: A$36.95.     

Book Reviews

Idris F. Sulaiman, G. Hanafi Sofyan and Shannon Luke Smith (eds) (1998), Bridging the Arafura Sea: Australia-Indonesia Relations in Prosperity and Adversity, Asia Pacific Press, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management, The Australian National University, pp. xxi + 325.

David C. Cole and Betty F. Slade (1996), Building a Modern Financial System: The Indonesian Experience, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. xxvii + 379. Cloth: US$59.95; paper, US$25.

Chris Manning (1998), Indonesian Labour in Transition: An Indonesian Success Story?, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. xxii + 323.

Hal Hill and Thee Kian Wie (eds) (1998), Indonesia's Technological Challenge, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, paper, pp. xxv + 414.

Steven J. Keuning (1996), Accounting for Economic Development and Social Change, IOS Press, Amsterdam, Oxford, Tokyo, Washington DC, pp. x + 233. NLG100; £39; DM90;US$58.

Thomas Brandt (1996; English trans. 1997), Kunci Budaya. Business in Indonesia: The Cultural Key to Success, goasia Verlag, Bad Oldesloe, Germany.     

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     

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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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 briefs

Key variables in social investigation, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1986, vii + 276 pp.

Reproductive change in developing countries, Insights from the World Fertility Survey, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1985, xvi + 301 pp, ISBN 0‐19‐828465‐9.

The world crisis in education, The view from the eighties, Oxford University Press, New York, 1985, vii + 353 pp ISBN 0‐19‐503503‐8

Reaching the Urban Poor, Project implementation in developing countries, Westview Press, Boulder Colorado. 1986, vii + 264 pp, ISBN 0‐8133‐7129‐5

Housing policy, An international bibliography, Mansell Publishing Limited, New York, 1986, ix ‐ 398 pp, ISBN 0‐7201‐1785‐2

Agribusiness and the small‐scale farmer: A dynamic partner for development, Westview Press, Boulder, 1985

Agriculture and employment in developing countries: Strategies for effective rural development, Westview Press, Boulder, 1985

Progress in natural resource economics, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1985

International agricultural trade: Advanced readings in price formation, market structure and price instability 1984

The role of markets in the world food economy, Westview Press, Boulder, 1983     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article GREAT BRITAIN Henry Cleere and David Crossley (Eds.). The Iron Industry of the Weald. (Leicester: Leicester University Press. 1985. Pp. xvi + 395. 74 figs. £47-50.) C. G. A. Clay . Economic Expansion and Social Change: England 1500-1700. (Cambridge, 1984. Vol. I, Pp. xiv + 268. 6 tables, 4 figs. 6 maps; Vol II, Pp. xii + 324. 15 tables, 4 figs. 5 maps. £20 each vol.; paperbacks £6-95 each vol.) Bernard Rudden . The New River: A Legal History. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1985. Pp. xiv + 335. 2 plates. 18 figs. 9 appendices. £20-00.) Norma Landau . The Justices of the Peace, 1679-1760. (Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, and London: University of California Press. 1984. Pp. xv + 422. £35-40.) Robin D. Gwynn . Huguenot Heritage: The History and Contribution of the Huguenots in Britain. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1985. Pp. xii + 220. 8 Plates. 4 Tables. 10 Maps. £15-95.) David Ormrod . English Grain Exports and the Structure of Agrarian Capitalism, 1700-1760. (Hull: Hull University Press. 1985. Pp. xii + 145. £8.95.) N. F. R. Crafts . British Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1985. Pp. 193. £19.50.) Maxine Berg . The Age of Manufactures: Industry, Innovation, and Work in Britain, M. E. Rose (Ed.)- The Poor and the City: The English Poor Law in its Urban Context, 1834-1914. (Leicester: Leicester University Press. 1985. Pp. xi + 175. 1 fig. 5 tables £22-00.) Neville Kirk . The Growth of Working Class Reformism in Mid-Victorian England. (Beckenham: Croom Helm. 1985. Pp. xiii + 369. £22.50.) Derek J. Oddy and Derek S. Miller (Eds.). Diet and Health in Modem Britain. (London: Croom Helm. 1985. Pp. vi + 326. £22.00.) Roger Middleton . Towards the Managed Economy: Keynes, the Treasury and the Fiscal Policy Debate of the 1930s. (London: Methuen 1985. Pp. xii + 244. £25-00.) GENERAL Peter Clark (Ed.). The European Crisis of the 1590s. (London: George Allen & Unwin. 1985. Pp. xiv + 324. £25-00.) L. A. Clarkson . Proto-Industrialization: The First Phase of Industrialization? (London: MacMillan. Studies in Economic and Social History. 1985. Pp. 71. £395.) Tommy Bengtsson , Gunnar Fridlizius and Rolf Ohlsson (Eds.). Pre-Industrial Population Change: The Mortality Decline and Short-Term Population Movements. (Stockholm: Almquist and Wiksell. 1984. Pp. 419. S.Kr.280.) Richard Smith (Ed.)- Land, Kinship, and Life-cycle. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1984. Pp. xiii + 547. £40-00.) David Levine (Ed.). Proletarianization and Family History. (London: Academic Press. 1984. Pp. xii + 315. £38-50.) Robert R. Locke . The End of Practical Man: Entrepreneurship and Higher Education in Germany, France, and Great Britain, 1880-1940. (Greenwich, Connecticut and London: JAI Press. 1984. Pp. xii + 363. 31 tables. £46.50.) Harold James . The Reichsbank and Public Finance in Germany, 1924-1933: A Study of the Politics of Economics during the Great Depression. (Frankfurt am Main: Fritz Knapp Verlag. 1985. Pp. 426. n.p.) Joseph Harrison . The Spanish Economy in the Twentieth Century. (London: Croom Helm. 1985. Pp. 207. 27 tables. £1995.) Ivan T. Berend and Gyorgy Ranki . The Hungarian Economy in the Twentieth Century. (London: Croom-Helm. 1985. Pp. 316. £25.) HUGH BROGAN. Longman History of the United States of America. (London: Longman. 1985. Pp. viii + 470. £19-95.) C. Cochran . Challenge of American Values: Society, Business, and Religion. (New York: Oxford University Press. 1985. Pp. 147. $13.95.) Hasia R. Diner . Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century. (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1983. Pp. xvi + 192. $2000; paperback $9-95.) Humbert S. Nelli . From Immigrants to Ethnics: The Italian Americans. (Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1983. Pp. viii + 225. £19-50.) Martin V. Melosi . Coping with Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1985. Pp. xii + 355. $1095.) Carole Haber . Beyond Sixty-Five: The Dilemma of Old Age in America's Past. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985. Pp. ix + 181. Paperback, £6-95.) Ruth Schwartz Cowan . More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. (New York and London: Harper & Row. 1983. Pp. xiv + 257. 46 plates. £19-75; paperback £8-75.) Christopher L. Tomlins . The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law, and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880-1960. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985. Pp. xvi 4- 348. £30; paperback £1095.) Gary A. Puckrein . Little England: Plantation Society and Anglo-Barbadian Politics, 1627-1700. (New York and London: New York University Press. 1984. xxiv + 235. $51.50.) Kenneth F. Kiple . The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1984. Pp. xiii + 274. £27.50.) Linda Alexander Rodriguez . The Search for Public Policy: Regional Politics and Government Finances in Ecuador, 1830-1940. (Berkeley & London: Univ. of California Press. 1985. Pp. xv + 281. $32.50.) K. N. Chaudhuri . Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985. Pp. xiv 4- 269. 18 maps. 23 plates. £25; paperback £895.) Christopher John Baker . An Indian Rural Economy, 1880-1955: The Tamilnad Countryside. (Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1984. Pp. xvii + 616. 9 maps. 30 tables. 16 graphs. £28-00.) David K. Wyatt . Thailand: A Short History (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1984. Pp. xviii + 351. £27-50.) Joseph Needham (Ed.)- Science and Civilisation in China, Volume VI, Biology and Biological Technology: Part II: Agriculture by Francesca Bray. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1984. Pp. xxvii + 724. £50.) William D. Wray . Mitsubishi and the N.Y.K., 1870-1914: Business Strategy in the Japanese Shipping Industry. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (Harvard East Asian Monographs No. 108). 1984. Pp. xx + 672. £21-95.) Raymond W. Goldsmith . The Financial Development of Japan, 1868-1977. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1983, Pp. xv + 231. £27.00.) Raymond W. Goldsmith . The Financial Development of India, Japan, and the United States: A Trilateral Institutional, Statistical, and Analytic Comparison. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1983. Pp. xiv + 120. £1095.) Tsunehiko Yui and Keiichiro Nakagawa (Eds.). Business History of Shipping: The International Conference on Business History 11: Proceedings of the Fuji Conference. (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. 1985. Pp. xxix + 330.£ 6000.) David Mackay . In the Wake of Cook: Exploration, Science & Empire, 1880-1801. (London: Croom Helm. 1985. Pp. vi + 216. £18.95.) D. C. M. Platt and Guido Di Tella (Eds.). Argentina, Australia, and Canada: Studies in Comparative Development, 1870-1965. (London: Macmillan. 1985. Pp. xi + 237. 25-00.) Charles Lipson . Standing Guard: Protecting Foreign Capital in the Ninteteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press. 1985. Pp. xvii + 332. 13 tables, 3 figs. £3325; paperback £11-25.) Bill Albert and Adrian Graves (Eds.). Crisis and Change in the International Sugar Economy, 1860-1914. (Norwich and Edinburgh: ISC Press. 1984. Pp. xii + 381. £12-00.) Michael D. Bordo and Anna J. Schwartz (Eds.). A Retrospective on the Classical Gold Standard, 1821-1931. (London: University of Chicago Press. 1984. Pp. xi + 681. £59-80.) E. J. Hobsbawm . Worlds of Labour: Further Studies in the History of Labour. (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1984. Pp. x + 369. £15.95; paperback £7-95.)     

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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.     

Book Reviews

Leon A. Mears, The New Rice Economy of Indonesia, Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press, 1981, pp. xxiii + 605. Price US$15.

Alfian, Mely G. Tan, Selo Soemardjan (eds). Kemirkinan Struktural: Suatu Bunga Rampai (Structural Poverty: A Collection). Jakarta: Yayasan Ilmu-Ilmu Sosial (YIIS), 1980. pp. 189. Rp 2000.

Thee Kian Wie, Pemerataan- Kemiskinan- Ketimpangan (Equalization-Poverty-Uneven Distribution), Jakarta: Sinar Harapan. 1981, pp. 152. Rp 1750.

Bulletin Leknns, Year 1 No. 2, Feb. 1982, Special Edition on Employment Opportunity, Poverty and Population Mobility in Rural Areas, pp. 146.

Mubyarto (ed.), Growth and Equity in Indonesian Agricultural Development, Jakarta: Yayasan Agro Ekonomika, 1982. pp. xv + 258.

Muriel Charras, De la forêt malefique à I'herbe divine [From Malign Jungle to Divine Grain]: La transmigration en Indonesie: Les Balinais a Sulawesi, Paris: Editions de la Maison des sciences de I'homme 1982, pp, viii + 341. Price Fr. 90.00.

Yujiro Hayami and Masao Kikuchi. Asian Village Economy at the Crossroads: An Economic Approach to Institutional Change, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1981, pp. xvi + 275. Yen 4000. Geoffrey B. Hainsworth (ed.), Village-level Modernization in Southeast Asia: The Political Economy of Rice and Water. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 1982. pp. ix + 411. Can$34.00.

Colin MacAndrews and Chia Lin-Sien (eds.). Too Rapid Rural Development: Perceptions and Perspectives from Southeast Asia, Athens: University of Ohio Press, pp. xiv + 369. Cloth $19.95, paper $10.95.

Gary E. Hansen (ed.), Agricultural and Rural Development in Indonesia, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1981, pp. xiv + 312.

William L. Collier, Declining Labour Absorption (1878 to 1980) in Javanese Rice Production, Bogor: Agro-economic Survey, Rural Dynamics Study, Publication No. 2, 1980, pp. 120.     

Book Reviews

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CARTER, Charles F., Wealth: An Essay on the Purposes of Economics. Penguin Books
COLBERG, M. R., FORBUSH, D. R. en WHITAKER, G. R. (Jnr.), Business Economics Principles and Cases . Richard D. Irwin Inc., Homewood, Illinois
COLEMAN, Francis L., The Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt 1899–1962 Manchester University Press , 1971
DOW, J. C. R., The Management of the British Economy 1945–60. Cambridge University Press (N.I.E.S.R. Students' Edition 3) 1970
HARBURY, C. D., An Introduction to Economic Behaviour, pp. 224, 81,40
FORD, A. G., Incomes, Spending and the Price Level, pp. 255, R1,70
PETERS, G. H., Private and Public Finance, pp. 231, 81,40
WILLIAMS, L. J., Britain and the World Economy, 1919 1970, pp. 192, R1,20.
NEWLYN, W T., Theory of Money. Oxford University Press, (2 ed.), U.K., 1971
NEWLYN, W T., Theory of Money. Oxford University Press, (2 ed.), U.K., 1971, pp.
RICHARDSON, Harry W., Urban Economics. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1971, pp. 208, bibliography, index
RICHARDSON, Harry W., Urban Economics. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1971, pp. 208, bibliography, index. R1.20
ROSTOW, W. W., Politics and the Stages of Growth. Cambridge University Press
SHAW, G. K., An Introduction to the Theory of Macro-Economic Policy. Martin Robertson, London paperbound     

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.