Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in This Article: THE ORIGINS OF TRADE UNION POWER: Henry Phelps STEEL STRIKE: A CASE STUDY IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS : Jean Hartley, John Kelly and Nigel Nicholson BACK FROM THE BRINK : Michael Edwardes IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE: LESSONS FROM AMERICA'S BEST RUN COMPANIES : Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. CORPORATE CULTURES: THE RITES AND RITUALS OF CORPORATE LIFE : Terrence E. Deal and Allen A.     

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THE CHANGING CONTOURS OF BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Nuffield College, Oxford WORK AND PEOPLE: AN ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF JOB ENRICHMENT Lodon School of Economics THE HIDDEN MEANING OF PAY CONFLICT University of Edinburgh COMPETITION AND CONTROL AT WORK Centre for Research in Industrial Democracy and Participation Glasgow University     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: WORKERS AND THE NEW DEPRESSION Robert Taylor THE BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: SOME PROBLEMS OF INTEGRATION A. Thomson and M. Warner Gower THE CAUSES OF INDUSTRIAL DISORDER: A COMPARISON OF A BRITISH AND A GERMAN FACTORY Ian Maitland THE DYNAMICS OF WHITE-COLLAR UNIONISM: A STUDY OF LOCAL UNION PARTICIPATION Nigel Nicholson     

BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article: Austrian Economics ECONOMIC THOUGHT BEFORE ADAM SMITH: AN AUSTRIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT, Vol.I CLASSICAL ECONOMICS: AN AUSTRIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT, Vol.II Murray N.Rothbard AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS IN AMERICA: THE MIGRATION OF A TRADITION Karen I.Vaughn THE MARKET PROCESS; ESSAYS IN CONTEMPORARY AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitko (eds.) CLASSICS IN AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS Israel M. Kirzner (ed.) THE ELGAR COMPANION TO AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS Peter J. Boettke (ed.) Environmental Economics SMALL IS STUPID: BLOWING THE WHISTLE ON THE GREENS Wilfred Beckerman RISK John Adams SCARCITY OR ABUNDANCE? A DEBATE ON THE ENVIRONMENT Norman Myers and Julian L. Simon Money and Banking THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF CARTELIZATION IN BRITISH BANKING Martin Davies MONEY, CREDIT AND ASSET PRICES Gordon Pepper HISTORY OF BANKING 1050–1850 Forrest H. Capie (ed.) A HISTORY OF MONEY: FROM AD 800 John F. Chown THE FUTURE OF CENTRAL BANKING: THE TERCENTENARY SYMPOSIUM OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND Forrest Capie, Charles Goodhart, Stanley Fischer and Norbert Schnadt Economic Policy THE STATE WE'RE IN Will Hutton CAPITALISM WITH A HUMAN FACE Samuel Brittan THE AGE OF DIMINISHED EXPECTATIONS Paul Krugman PEDDLING PROSPERITY: ECONOMIC SENSE AND NONSENSE IN THE AGE OF DIMINISHED EXPECTATIONS Paul Krugman AMERICAN ECONOMIC POLICY IN THE 1980S Martin Feldstein (ed.) THEORIES OF THE MIXED ECONOMY David Reisman (ed.) Taxation TAX PROGRESSIVITY AND INCOME INEQUALITY Joel B. Slemrod (ed.) THE POWER TO DESTROY: A STUDY OF THE BRITISH TAX SYSTEM D.R. Myddelton Industry, Finance & Labour INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS: ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES (2nd Edition) Paul R. Ferguson and Glenys J. Ferguson GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND INVESTMENT STRATEGIES Richard J. Bauer Jr. TRADING ON THE EDGE: NEURAL, GENETIC, AND FUZZY SYSTEMS FOR CHAOTIC FINANCIAL MARKETS Guido J. Deboeck (ed.) THE MARKET FOR TRAINING Robert McNabb and Keith Whitfield (eds.) Medicine & Health THE DEATH OF HUMANE MEDICINE AND THE RISE OF COERCIVE HEALTHISM Petr Skrabanek PREVENTIONITIS: THE EXAGGERATED CLAIMS OF HEALTH PROMOTION James Le Fanu (ed.) THE TRANS FORMATION OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL DEMOCRACY Herbert Kitschelt SOCIAL DEMOCRACY SOCIAL DEMOCRACY AND RATIONAL CHOICE: THE SCANDINAVIAN EXPERIENCE AND BEYOND Henry Milner LOST OPPORTUNITY: WHY ECONOMIC REFORMS IN RUSSIA HAVE NOT WORKED Marshall I. Goldman Europe THE ECONOMICS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: POLICY AND ANALYSIS M.J. Artis and N. Lee (eds.)     

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Book reviews in this article:
AGAINST LEVIATHAN: GOVERNMENT POWER AND A FREE SOCIETY Robert Higgs
THE BUSINESS OF VIRTUE Clive Wright
HUMAN WELL-BEING AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT Partha Dasgupta
THE BUSINESS OF VIRTUE Clive Wright
THE WOMAN AND THE DYNAMO: ISABEL PATERSON AND THE IDEA OF AMERICA Stephen Cox
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF NOTABLE BLACK ECONOMISTS Kojo A. Quartey
BLAIR Anthony Seldon     

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Book reviews in this article: A PROFESSIONAL UNION: THE EVOLUTION OF THE INSTITUTION OF PROFESSIONAL CIVIL SERVANTS James E. Mortimer and Valerie A. Ellis George Allen and Unwin SKILL AND THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS, 1870–1914 Charles More, Croom Helm THE ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIETY R. Presthus THE DECLINE OF THE BRITISH MOTOR INDUSTRY Peter J. S. Dunnett, Croom Helm OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE DEGREE AND PATTERN OF THE DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN'S WORK IN BRITAIN, THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER COUNTRIES Catherine Hakim GOOD JOBS, BAD JOBS, NO JOBS E. Ginzberg     

BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article:
THE STOCK MARKET Cliff Pratten
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES Dilip K. Das (ed.)
CAPITALISM AGAINST CAPITALISM Michael Albert
MAKING MARKETS: ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE POSTSOVIET STATES Shafiqul Islam & Michael Mandelbaum (eds)
FISCAL POLICY-AN INTRODUCTION G.C. Hockley Routledge
LOCAL POWER AND MARKET REFORM IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION Philip Hanson     

BOOK REVIEWS

OCCASIONAL PAPERS IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS DEVELOPING EMPLOYEE RELATIONS by Peter Warr, Stephen Fineman, Nigel Nicholson and Roy Payne A CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY OF A MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: Attitudinal responses to participative management by Dietrich L. Schaupp POWER, INNOVATION AND PROBLEM-SOLVING IN PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT by Karen Legge A PARTICIPATIVE APPROACH TO COMPUTER SYSTEMS DESIGN F. H. M. Blackler and A. A. Brown JOB REDESIGN AND MANAGEMENT CONTROL: STUDIES IN BRITISH LEYLAND AND VOLVO by David Pace and John Hunter DIRECT PARTICIPATION IN ACTION: THE NEW BUREAUCRACY By Enid Mumford and Don Henshall THE CASE FOR WORKERS CO-OPS by Robert Oakeshott Routledge and Kegan Paul SOCIALISM AND SHOP FLOOR POWER by Alan Fox Fabian CONFLICT AND DEMOCRACY Studies in Trade Union Government by John Hemingway     

BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article:
HIGGLING: TRANSACTORS AND THEIR MARKETS IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS Neil de Marchi and Mary S. Morgan (eds.)
THE POWER OF LIFE OR DEATH: A CRITIQUE OF MEDICAL TYRANNY Fabian Tassano
TRUST: THE SOCIAL VIRTUES AND THE CREATION OF PROSPERITY Francis Fukuyama
THE LIFE OF ADAM SMITH Ian Simpson Ross
CENTURIES OF ECONOMIC ENDEAVOR: Parallel Paths in Japan and Europe and Their Contrast with the Third World John P. Powelson     

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BOARDS OF DIRECTORS IN BRITISH INDUSTRY Christopher Brookes COMPANY ORGANISATION AND WORKER PARTICIPATION Ian B. Knight MANAGING PEOPLE AT WORK John Hunt McGraw-Hill WORK AND POWER: THE LIBERATION OF WORK AND THE CONTROL OF POLITICAL POWER Edited by Tom R. Burns, Lars Erik Karlsson and Veljko Rus Sage Publications NEW DEAL FOR STEEL, THE IRON AND STEEL CONFEDERATION , FRANCES TIPTON UNDERSTANDING INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS D. Farnham and J. Pimlott Cassell     

GOOD BOOKS — AND OTHERS

Book reviewed in this article:
RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS AND THE NEW MACROECONOMICS Patrick Jsdinford and David Peel
THE ROLE AND LIMITS OF GOVERNMENT Samuel Brittan
APPOINTMENT IN JAPAN G. C. Allen
DISORGANIZED CRIME: THE ECONOMICS OF THE VISIBLE HAND Peter Reuters
THE ANATOMY OF POWER J. K. Galbraith     

WINTER BOOKS SPECIAL

Book reviewed in this article:
THE WAGE CURVE David G. Blanchflower and Andrew J. Oswald
THE ROTTEN HEART OF EUROPE Bernard Connolly
NEW ZEALAND: MARKET LIBERALISATION IN A DEVELOPED ECONOMY Patrick Massey
OVERCOMING LAW Richard A. Posner
THE RETURN OF THE STRONG; THE DRIFT TO GLOBAL DISORDER Robert Harvey
THE PATH TO POWER Margaret Thatcher
BRITISH BUSINESS HISTORY, 1720–1994 John F. Wilson
THE QUANTITY THEORY OF MONEY: FROM LOCKE TO KEYNES AND FRIEDMAN Mark Blaug, Walter Eltis, Denis O'Brien, Don Patinkin, Robert Skidelsky and Geoffrey Wood
HIGH INFLATION: THE ARNE RYDE MEMORIAL LECTURES Daniel Heymann and Axel Leijonhuvfud     

Book Review Special

Book reviewed in this article:
ONE OF US Hugo Young.
GORBACHEV'S STRUGGLE FOR ECONOMIC REFORM Anders Aslund.
PRIVATE AGRICULTURE IN THE SOVIET UNION Stefan Hedlund.
SOCIAL CONTRACT, FREE RIDE A Study of the Public Goods Problem Anthony de Jasay.
THEORY OF THE CAPITALIST ECONOMY: Towards a Post-Classical Synthesis Bill Gerrard.
CRADLE TO CRAVE: Comparative Perspectives on the state of Welfare Ralph segalman and David Marsland.
LABOUR MARKETS IN DISTRESS: THE DENIAL OF CHOICE Ross MacKay and David Jones Gower.
INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS: A Critical Introduction to Corporate Enterprises in Europe and America W. Duncan Reekie.
WEALTH, POVERTY AND POLITICS Gordon Tullock.
THE ROPESPINNER CONSPIRACY Michael M. Thomas.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in This Article: THE CHALLENGE TO MANAGEMENT CONTROL John Storey MASTERS, UNIONS AND MEN: WORK CONTROL IN BUILDING AND THE RISE OF LABOUR, 1830–1914 Richard Price A CLASS AGAINST ITSELF—POWER IN THE NATIONALISATION OF THE BRITISH STEEL INDUSTRY Doug McEachern TRADE UNIONS AND THE INDIVIDUAL Alan Campbell PAY IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR R. F. Elliott and J. L. Fallick CURRENT CONCERNS IN OCCUPATIONAL STRESS C. L. Cooper and R. Payne (ed.)     

BOOK REVIEWS

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS G. S. Bain and G. B. Woolven CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Arthur Marsh Gower Press TRADE UNION HANDBOOK Arthur Marsh Gower Press THE WORKING CLASS IN THE LABOUR MARKET R. M. Blackburn and Michael Mann MacMillan THE CONTROL OF WORK J. Purcell and R. Smith (eds.) Macmillan THE CODETERMINATION MOVEMENT IN THE WEST S. Pejovich (ed.) Lexington Books MANAGEMENT UNIONISATION IN WESTERN EUROPE by the European Association for Personnel Management Institute of Personnel Management     

READINGS IN THE ECONOMICS OF LAW AND REGULATION

Book reviewed in this article:
READINGS IN THE ECONOMICS OF LAW AND REGULATION
THE REGULATION GAME, Ed. Aalan Poacook
MARX'S CAPITAL, Ben Fine
POUCY, POWER AND ORDER: THE PERSISTENCE OF ECONOMIC PROBLEMS IN CAPITALIST STATES, Keny Schott     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article: UNEMPLOYMENT: CAUSE AND CURE Patrick Minford BRITAIN CAN WORK Ian Gilmour THE SOCIAL ORGANISATION OF INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT: WORKER RESISTANCE IN THE WORKPLACE P. K. Edwards and Hugh Scullion MANAGING INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Mick Marchington MANAGERS IN FOCUS: THE BRITISH MANAGER IN THE EARLY 1980s Michael Poole THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LABOUR PROCESS IN CAPITALIST SOCIETIES Craig R. Littler THE MODERNIZATION OF SOVIET INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT William J. Conyngham THE SOCIALIST CORPORATION AND TECHNOCRATIC POWER Jean Woodhall     

Book reviews

Book reviews in this article:
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS: A NATURAL HISTORY OF ECONOMIC LIFE Paul Seabright
THE RIGHT NATION: CONSERVATIVE POWER IN AMERICA John Mlcklethwalt and Adrlan Wooldrldge
THE SPLIT CAPITAL INVESTMENT TRUST CRISIS Andrew Adams (ed.)
LIBERTY FOR LATIN AMERICA: HOW TO UNDO FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF STATE OPPRESSION Alvaro Vargos Llosa
UNDERSTANDING ANTI-AMERICANISM: ITS ORIGINS AND IMPACT AT HOME AND ABROAD Paul Hollander (ed.)
THE RISE OF THE MARKET: CRITICAL ESSAYS ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NEO-LIBERALISM Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer (eds.)
JAPAN'S QUIET TRANSFORMATION: SOCIAL CHANGE AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Jeff Kingston
STATE OF FEAR Michael Crichton
A FAIR GLOBALISATION: CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL     

BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article:
GLOBAL EFFECTS OF LIBERALISING TRADE IN FARM PRODUCTS K. Anderson and R. Tyers
THE STRATEGY & CONSISTENCY OF FEDERAL RESERVE MONETARY POLICY 1924–1933 David C. Wheelock
DIVERSE PATHS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Richard Pomfret
EUROPEAN EXPANSION AND MIGRATION P.C. Emmer and M. Mörner (Eds.)
ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ECONOMICS, VOLUME 4: WOMEN'S WORK IN THE WORLD ECONOMY Nancy Folbre, Barbara Bergmann, Bina Agarwal and Maria Flora (Eds.)
EXCHANGE RATE TARGETS & CURRENCY BANDS Paul Krugman and Marcus Miller (Eds.)
THE EVOLUTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL MONETARY SYSTEMS Alfred Steinherr and Daniel Weisherbs (Eds.)
THE LEGACY OF THE GOLDEN AGE-THE 1960s AND THEIR ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES Frances Cairncross and Alec Cairncross
BEYOND THE LIMITS: GLOBAL COLLAPSE OR A SUSTAINABLE-FUTURE Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows and Jorgen Randers
THE FORTUNES OF LIBERALISM; VOLUME IV OF THE COLLECTED WORKS OF F.A. HAYEK Peter G. Klein (Ed.)
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY; THE BUILDING OF A UNION John Pinder
FORESTS: MARKETS & INTERVENTION FAILURES: FIVE CASE STUDIES SÖren Wibe and Tom Jones (Eds.)
FEDERALISM IMPERIL: WILL CANADA SURVIVE A.R. Riggs and Tom Velk
DEN OF THIEVES James B. Stewart
PRICES AND KNOWLEDGES: A MARKET-PROCESS PERSPECTIVE Esteban F. Thomsen
FROM BOOM TO BUST: TRIAL AND ERROR IN BRITISH ECONOMIC POLICY David Smith     

BOOK REVIEWS and BOOK NOTES

Book reviews in this article: GROUP PROCESS AND PRODUCTIVITY: by Ivan D. Steiner WILL THORNE: CONSTRUCTIVE MILITANT: A study in New Unionism and New Politics by Giles and Lisanne Radice INDUSTRIAL STUDIES: Industrial Studies 1: The Key Skills by Ed. Coker and Geoffrey Stuttard (Eds). INDUSTRIAL STUDIES: Industrial Studies 1: The Organized Worker: by Tony Topham. INDUSTRIAL STUDIES: Industrial Studies 1: The Activist's Handbook: by Bob Houlton. INDUSTRIAL STUDIES: Industrial Studies 1: Statistics for Bargainers: by Karl Hedderwick INDUSTRIAL STUDIES: Industrial Studies 1: Calculating: by Joyce Bill Hutton. JESSE BOOT OF BOOTS THE CHEMISTS: by Stanley Chapman TRAINING IN INDUSTRY: THE MANAGEMENT OF LEARNING: by Bernard M. Bass and James A. Vaughan. ORGANISATION DESIGN: An analytical approach to the structuring of organisation by Derek Newman. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY AND THE WORKER-OWNED FIRM: A study of twenty-one plywood companies in the Pacific Northwest by Carl J. Bellas. SOCIOLOGY and INDUSTRIAL LIFE: by J. E. T. Eldridge. BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Attitudes to Price Increases and Pay Claims by H. Behrend. BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Management and Unions - the theory and reform of industrial relations: by A. Flanders. BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Coming to Terms with Trade Unions - Six case studies in Collective Bargaining Strategy: by W. E. J. McCarthy A. S. Collier. BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Managers and Shop Stewards - shop floor revolution: by A. I. Marsh. BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Manpower and Pay in Retail Distribution: Distributive Trades E.D.C., National Economic Development Office BRITISH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Collective Agreements - a guide to their Drafting: by J. C. Ramsey in association with J. M. Hill. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: Socialising the Company by D. R. Allan. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY: The new Unionism - the case for Workers Control by K. Coates and T. Topham.