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 reviewed in this article:
THE SOURCES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH IN OECD COUNTRIES OECD
GULAG: A HISTORY OF THE SOVIET CAMPS Anne Applebaum
REGULATING THE FINANCIAL SECTOR IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION Zuhayr Mikdashi
THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS: THEIR GENIUS, THEIR FOLLIES, THEIR LIMITATIONS John Kay
MAKING GLOBALISATION GOOD: THE MORAL CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM John H. Dunning (ed.)
EXPLOITING PATENT RIGHTS AND A NEW CLIMATE FOR IN NOVATION IN JAPAN Ruth Taplin (ed.)
TRANSPORT ECONOMICS AND POLICY John Hibbs     

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: PEOPLE'S CAPITALISM? A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF PROFIT SHARING AND EMPLOYEE SHARE OWNERSHIP L. Baddon, L. Hunter, J. Hyman, J. Leopold and H. Ramsay A STAKE IN THE COMPANY: SHAREHOLDING, OWNERSHIP AND ESOPS J. Cornford THE PEPPER REPORT: PROMOTION OF EMPLOYEE PARTICIPATION IN PROFITS AND ENTERPRISE RESULTS IN THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY. SOCIAL EUROPE SUPPLEMENT 3/91 M. Uvalic PROFIT SHARING AND EMPLOYEE SHAREHOLDING REGISTER INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF PARTICIPATION IN ORGANIZATIONS VOLUME 1. ORGANIZATIONAL DEMOCRACY: TAKING STOCK C. Lammers and G. Szell INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF PARTICIPATION IN ORGANIZATIONS VOLUME 2. OWNERSHIP AND PARTICIPATION R. Russell and V. Rus THE ORIGINS OF ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY: PROFIT SHARING AND EMPLOYEE-SHAREHOLDING SCHEMES M. Poole THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY: PROFIT SHARING AND EMPLOYEE-SHAREHOLDING SCHEMES M. Poole and G. Jenkins INTERNAL EVALUATION: BUILDING ORGANISATIONS FROM WITHIN Arnold J. Love CRAFTING SELVES: POWER, GENDER, AND DISCOURSES OF IDENTITY IN A JAPANESE WORKPLACE Dorrine K. Kondo RESHAPING WORK: THE CADBURY EXPERIENCE Chris Smith, John Child and Michael Rowlinson     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article: LABOUR AND THE LAW Hamlyn Lectures No. 24 Otto Kahn-Freund PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT LAW by F. W. Rose MANAGEMENT BY AGREEMENT by W. E. J. McCarthy and D. Ellis STRAIGHT JACKET OR FRAMEWORK : The implications for management of the Industrial Relations Act by E. G. A. Armstrong INCOMES POLICY, EQUITY AND PAY INCREASE DIFFERENTIALS by Hilde Behrend INCOMES POLICY AND CAPITAL SHARING IN EUROPE by Derek Robinson PAY, PRODUCTIVITY AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING by Robert B. McKersie and Laurence C. Hunter GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN: THE FEDERATION OF BRITISH INDUSTRIES IN POLITICS, 1945–65 by Stephen Bland WHITE COLLAR UNIONS—A REVIEW Institute of Personnel Management WHITE COLLAR UNIONISM IN BRITAIN: A SURVEY OF THE PRESENT POSITION by Roger Lumley PARTICIPATION IN INDUSTRY by C. Balfour THE APPLICABILITY OF ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIOLOGY by Chris Argyris WORKING FOR FORD by H. Beynon REDUNDANCY AND PATERNALIST CAPITALISM: A STUDY IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF WORK by Roderick Martin and R. H. Fryer     

BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article:
THE NEW CLASSICAL MACRO-ECONOMICS Kevin D.Hoover.
REAL WORLD ECONOMICS Christopher Huhne Macmillan.
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN APPLIED ECONOMICS Graham Bird and Heather Bird.
FRONTIERS OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH Phyllis Dean (Ed.) .
MONETARISM AND THE KEYNESIANS Christopher Johnson [Ed.]
BRITAIN'S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS AND POLICIES IN THE 1990s Ken Coutts, Wynne Godley, Bob Rowthorn and Gennaro Zezza.
ECONOMIC PLANNING IN TRANSITION; SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING IN POSTSOCIALIST AND CAPITALIST SOCIETIES Janos Kovacs and Bruno Dallago (Eds.)
THE HISTORY OF ECONOMETRIC IDEAS Mary S. Morgan.
FIGHTING THE WAR OF IDEAS IN LATIN AMERICA John Goodman and Ramona Marotz-Baden (Eds.)
THE ROAD TO A FREE ECONOMY, SHIFTING FROM A SOCIALIST SYSTEM: THE CASE OF HUNGARY Janos Kornai.     

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Book reviews in this article: WAGES POLICY IN THE BRITISH COALMINING INDUSTRY J. L. Handy THE MILITANCY OF BRITISH MINERS V. L. Allen BATTERED CHERUB Joe Gormley KING COAL Tony Hall THE DEGRADATION OF WORK?: SKILL, DESKILLING AND THE LABOUR PROCESS Edited by Stephen Wood SOVIET TRADE UNIONS: THEIR DEVELOPMENT IN THE 1970s Blair A. Ruble BLUE COLLAR WORKERS IN EASTERN EUROPE Jan F. Triska and Charles Gati (eds.) George Allen and Unwin     

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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.)     

BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article:
THEORY AND MEASUREMENT: CAUSALITY ISSUES IN MILTON FRIEDMAN'S MONETARY ECONOMICS J. Daniel Hammond
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ECONOMIC REFORM IN RUSSIA, 1985–94 Vladimir Mau
JUST BUSINESS: BUSINESS ETHICS Elaine Sternberg
PRIVATISING RUSSIA Maxim Boycko, Andrei Schleifer and Robert Vishny
CLASSICAL LIBERALISM: THE UNVANQUISHED IDEAL David Conway
DISINTEGRATING EUROPE: THE TWILIGHT OF THE EUROPEAN CONSTRUCTION Noriko Hama
SHAMANS, SOFTWARE AND SPLEENS: LAW AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY James Boyle     

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

Book reviews in this article: EUROPEAN INSIGHTS: MANPOWER Edited by Barrie O. Pettman, WORKERS AND EMPLOYERS: DOCUMENTS ON TRADE UNIONS AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN BRITAIN SINCE THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY J. T. Ward and W. Hamish Fraser (eds.), INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN THE NHS—THE SEARCH FOR A SYSTEM Nick Bosanquet(ed.), STRIKES IN BRITAIN C. T. B. Smith, Richard Clifton, Peter Makeham, S. W. Creigh and R. V. Burn, MORE BAD NEWS Glasgow University Media Group, Routledge and Kegan Paul MANAGING AND DEVELOPING NEW FORMS OF WORK ORGANISATION G. Kanawaty (ed.), NEW FORMS OF WORK ORGANISATION 1 NEW FORMS OF WORK ORGANISATION 2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: THE FIREMEN N. F. Dufty,     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article: LABOUR IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: The Migration of Workers in the United Kingdom and the European Community by W. R. Böhning LABOUR IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: Labor Movements in the Common Market Countries by Marguerite Bouvard LABOUR IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: Employment Conditions in Europe by Margaret Stewart TRANSNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: Proceedings of a Symposium held at Geneva by the International Institute for Labour Studies by Hans Günter MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND BRITISH LABOUR: REVIEW OF ATTITUDES AND RESPONSES by John Gennard INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT—A COMPARATIVE LEGAL SURVEY by B. Aaron and K. W. Wedderburn WORKERS PARTICIPATION IN MANAGEMENT IN BRITAIN by R. O. Clarke, D. J. Fatchett and B. C. Roberts DO TRADE UNIONS CAUSE INFLATION? by D. Jackson, H. A. Turner and F. Wilkinson HANDBOOK OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS by D. Torrington ORGANISATIONS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE by Cyril Sofer THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF WORK by Michael Argyle     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews in this article: INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN THE COMMON MARKET by Campbell Balfour AN INCOMES POLICY FOR BRITAIN edited by F. Blackaby PILOTS AND MANAGEMENT: Industrial Relations in the UK Airlines by A. N. J. Blain WHITE COLLAR UNIONISM IN BRITAIN: A SURVEY OF THE PRESENT POSITION by Roger Lumley THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FRINGE BENEFITS IN INDUSTRY by Jane Moonman UPGRADING BLUE COLLAR AND SERVICE WORKERS by Charles Brecher HUMAN RESOURCES - OBTAINING RESULTS FROM PEOPLE AT WORK by E. J. Singer and J. Ramsden     

BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article: THE AIRPORT BUSINESS Rigas Doganis A THEORY OF HUMAN NEED Len Doyal and Ian Gough THE COLLECTED WRITINGS OF PAUL DAVIDSON: VOL.1: MONEY & EMPLOYMENT; VOL.2: INFLATION, OPEN ECONOMIES & RESOURCES Louise Davidson (Ed) URBAN TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS Kenneth A. Small TRASHING THE PLANET: HOW SCIENCE CAN HELP US DEAL WITH ACID RAIN, DEPLETION OF THE OZONE AND NUCLEAR WASTE Dixy Lee Ray with Lou Guzzo MONEY, INFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENTS: THE ROLE OF MONEY IN THE ECONOMY David Gowland RETHINKING THE ENVIRONMENT Russell Lewis et al THE METHODOLOGY OF ECONOMIC MODEL BUILDING: METHODOLOGY AFTER SAMUELSON Lawrence A. Boland REFLECTIONS; SELECTED WRITINGS AND SPEECHES OF ENOCH POWELL Rex Collings (Ed.) ECONOMETRICS: ALCHEMY OR SCIENCE? David F. Hendry THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND PUBLIC POLICY, 1941–1958 John Fforde TRUTH VERSUS PRECISION IN ECONOMICS Thomas Mayer ECONOMICS OF MONETARY INTEGRATION Paul de Grauwe     

BOOK REVIEWS

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS: THE BOARDROOM VIEWPOINT By George Bull, in collaboration with Peter Hobday and John Hamway THE MANAGEMENT OF LEARNING by Ivor K. Davies LABOUR COURTS AND GRIEVANCE SETTLEMENT IN WESTERN EUROPE edited by Benjamin Aaron STRIKES: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY edited by R. E. Frow and M. Katanka THE USE OF ECONOMICS LITERATURE edited by J. Fletcher ESSAYS IN ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT by Sir Alec Cairncross     

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MANAGERS IN THE MAKING: CAREERS, DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROL IN CORPORATE BRITAIN AND JAPAN John Storey, Paul Edwards and Keith Sisson TOWARDS THE VIRTUALORGANISATION Richard Hale and Peter Whitlam ETHICAL DIMENSIONS OF INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT Stephen J. Carroll and Martin J. Gannon ORGANISATION-REPRESENTATION: WORK AND ORGANISATIONS IN POPULAR CULTURE John Hassard and Ruth Holliday (eds) HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW: RESEARCH AND IMPLICATIONS Darlene Russ-Eft, Hallie Preskill and Catherine Sleezer (eds) BEYOND THE CV: SECURING A LIFETIME OF WORK IN THE GLOBAL MARKET Helen Vandevelde DIVERSITY AND WOMEN'S CAREER DEVELOPMENT Helen S. Farmer     

Books in Review

Book reviewed in this article:
THE RISE AND FALL OF FLEET STREET Charles Wintour
LIMITING EXCHANGE RATE FLEXIBILITY: THE EUROPEAN MONETARY SYSTEM Francesco Giavazzi & Alberto Giovannini
ROGERNOMICS: RESHAPING NEW ZEALAND'S ECONOMY Simon Walker (Ed.)
WORKING FOR PROFIT: THE SOCIAL ORGANISATION OF CALCULATION IN AN ENTREPRENEURIAL FIRM R. J. Anderson, J. A. Hughes & W. W. Sharrock
MACROECONOMIC THEORY AND STABILIZATION POLICY Manchester University Press
FISCAL POLICY: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF CEDRIC SANDFORD David Collard (ed.)
EQUALITY IN LIBERTY AND JUSTICE Antony Flew
PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS: on the Scope of Reason in Economic Inquiry Subroto Roy     

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     

BOOKS

Book reviiewed in this article:
THE STATE IN BUSINESS; 1945 TO THE MID-1980s William Ashworth.
THE SECRET OF THE MIRACLE ECONOMY: DIFFERENT NATIONAL ATTITUDES TO COMPETITIVENESS AND MONEY Richard Lynn.
TRANSPORT IN A FREE MARKET ECONOMY David Banister & Kenneth Button (Eds.)
PEACEFUL AIR WARFARE Alan P. Dobson
THE RATIONALE OF CENTRAL BANKING AND THE BANKING ALTERNATIVE Vera C. Smith.
A HARD POUNDING: POLITICS AND ECONOMIC CRISIS 1974–76 Edmund Dell.
THE RISK OF ECONOMIC CRISES Martin Feldstein (Ed.)     

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WHITE-COLLAR PROLETARIAT: DESKILLING AND GENDER IN CLERICAL WORK: Rosemary Crompton and Gareth Jones NEW TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF WORK AND SKILLS : Edited by Pauline Marstrand THE FUTURE OF WORK: A GUIDE TO A CHANGING SOCIETY : Charles Handy THE WEALTH OF INFORMATION: A PROFILE OF THE POST-INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY : Tom Stonier TOWARDS THE FLEXIBLE CRAFTSMAN : Michael Cross MICROPROCESSORS, MANPOWER AND SOCIETY : Edited by Malcolm Warner WORK, EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT: PERSPECTIVES ON WORK AND SOCIETY : Edited by K. Thompson