BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article:
HEATED DEBATE Robert C. Balling Jr
FOUNDATIONS OF CORPORATE SUCCESS: HOW BUSINESS STRATEGIES ADD VALUE John Kay
NEW IDEAS FROM DEAD ECONOMISTS Todd G. Buchholz
AMERICAN POWER, THE MEW WORLD ORDER AND THE JAPANESE CHALLENGE William R. Nester
US ECONOMIC POLICY TOWARD AFRICA Jeffrey Herbst
POST-KEYNESIAN ESSAYS IN BIOGRAPHY: PORTRAITS OF 20th CENTURY POLITICAL ECONOMISTS G.C. Harcourt
PRACTICAL ECONOMETRICS Gabor Korösi, Laszlo Matyas, and Istvan P. Szekely     

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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     

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Book reviewed in this article:
LIBERATING LABOR, Charles W. Baird
KNOWLEDGE CAPITALISM: BUSINESS, WORK, AND LEARNING IN THE NEW ECONOMY. Alan Burton-Jones
THE GIFTS OF ATHENA: HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY, Joel Mokyr
NOTHING IS SACRED: ECONOMIC IDEAS FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM, Robert J. Barro
SURFING ECONOMICS: ESSAYS FOR THE ENQUIRING ECONOMIST, Huw David Dixon
MARKETING THE REVOLUTION, THE NEW ANTI-CAPITALISM AND THE ATTACK UPON CORPORATE BRANDS, Michael Mosbacher
FAMILIES, FREEDOM AND EDUCATION: WHY SCHOOL CHOICE MAKES SENSE, Jennifer Buckingham
PUBLIC CORRUPTION: THE DARK SIDE OF SOCIAL EVOLUTION, Robert Neild     

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     

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.     

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     

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Book Reviewed in This Article: IMAGES OF ORGANIZATIONS Gareth Morgan TECHNOLOGY AND QUALITY: CHANGE IN THE WORKPLACE Patrick Dawson RESEARCH METHODS FOR MANAGERS John Gill and Phil Johnson BUSINESS ETHICS AND BUSINESS BEHAVIOUR Ken Smith and Phil Johnson (eds) DEVELOPING MANAGERIAL COMPETENCE DEVELOPING CORPORATE COMPETENCE William Tate Aldershot, Gower     

BOOKS

Book review in this article
FROM MARX TO MISES: POST-CAPITALIST SOCIETY AND THE CHALLENGE OF ECONOMIC CALCULATION David Ramsay Steele La Salle
MANAGING TRADE RELATIONS IN THE HEW WORLD ECONOMY Thomas Andersson
FOREIGN TRADE AND ECONOMIC REFORM IN CHINA 1978–1990 Nicholas R. Lardy
THE JUST ENTERPRISE: A BLUEPRINT FOR THE RESPONSIBLE COMPANY George Goyder     

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.)     

Book reviews

Book reviews in this article:
THE WAR ON WISDOM Digby Anderson (ed.)
GRANDMOTHERS OF THE REVOLUTION Geoff Dench (ed.)
REDISCOVERING FAMILY Geoff Dench
SAYING YES: IN DEFENSE OF DRUG USE Jacob Sullum
HOW RONALD REAGAN CHANGED MY LIFE Peter Robinson
RACE WARRIORS: THE PERVERSE RESULTS OF ANTI-RACISM Russell Lewis
Matthew O'Keeffe Merrill Lynch
WHY THE MARKETS WENT CRAZY Tim Lee
THE LIBERAL ARCHIPELAGO: A THEORY OF DIVERSITY AND FREEDOM Chandran Kukathas
NEIGHBOURS FROM HELL: THE POLITICS OF BEHAVIOUR Frank Field
JUSTICE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS Anthony de Jasay     

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     

BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article:
RESURRECTING MARX: THE ANALYTICAL MARXISTS ON FREEDOM, EXPLOITATION AND JUSTICE David Gordon.
BEYOND THE WELFARE STATES: AN EXAMINATION OF BASIC INCOMES IN A MARKET ECONOMY Samuel Brittan and Steven Webb.
OWNERSHIP, CONTROL AND THE FIRM, Voll Harold Demsetz.
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AMERICAN MONETARY POLICY T. Mayer (Ed.)
ADAM SMITH AND MODERN ECONOMICS: FROM MARKET BEHAVIOUR TO PUBLIC CHOICE Edwin West Edward Elgar.
IF YOU' RE SO SMART: THE NARRATIVE OF ECONOMIC EXPERTISE Donald N. McCloskey.
MACRO ECONOMICS Michael Parkin.
PRIVATISATION IN LESS-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES Paul Cook and Colin Kirkpatrick (Eds.)
BANKS AND INDUSTRIAL FINANCE IN BRITAIN 1800–1939 Michael Collins.     

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     

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Book reviews in this article:
HAYEK'S CHALLENGE: ANINTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY OF F. A. HAYEK Bruce Caldwell
TAX REFORMIN CANADA Herbert Grubel (ed.)
YOU CAN'T SAY THAT: THE GROWING THRE AT TO CIVIL LIBERTIES FROM ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAWS David E. Bernstein
PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE DARK: THE SPECIAL ADVISER IN BRITISH POLITICS Andrew Blick
AUTOCRATIC, DEMOCRATIC, AND OPTIMAL GOVERNMENT: FISCAL CHOICES AND ECONOMIC OUTCOMES William A. Niskanen
INFLATION-INDEXED SECURITIES: BONDS, SWAPS & OTHER DERIVATIVES (2nd edn.) Mark Deacon, Andrew Derry and Dariush Mirfendereski     

BOOKS

Book reviiewed in this article:
A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF DISSENTING ECONOMISTS Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer (Eds.)
EOUITY AND CHOICE Julian Le Grand Harper-Collins.
ORIGIN AND ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT Paul A Menkveld
UK FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND MARKETS Michael Pawley, David Winstone & Patrick Bentley.
THE MORALITY OF BUSINESS Norman Barry Aberdeen.
THE NEW PALGRAVE: THE WORLD OF ECONOMICS John Eatwell, Murray Milgate & Peter Newman (Eds.)
THE ECONOMIC IDEAS OF ORDINARY PEOPLE: FROM PREFERENCES TO TRADE David M. Levy
GOVERN MENT AND ECONOMIES IN THE POSTWAR WORLD: ECONOMIC POLICIES AND COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE 1945–85 Andrew Graham with Anthony Seldon
PROTECTIONISM AND INTERNATIONAL BANKING Gerhard Fels & George Situja.
THE CITY OF LONDON: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE, 1850–1990 Ranald C. Michie
THE LIFE OF AN ECONOMIST Charles P. Kindleberger
PARLIAMENT OF WHORES P.J. O'Rourke Picador.     

BOOKS

Book reviewed in this article: RUSSIAN CURRENCY AND FINANCE: A CURRENCY BOARD APPROACH TO REFORM Steve H. Hanke, Lars Jonung & Kurt Schuler EXPLORING THE BLACK BOX: TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMICS, AND HISTORY Nathan Rosenberg KEEPING GOOD COMPANY: A STUDY OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN FIVE COUNTRIES Jonathan Charkham GOVERNMENT: SERVANT OR MASTER? Gerard Radnitzky and Hardy Bouillon (eds) CRISIS, STABILIZATION AND ECONOMIC REFORM: THERAPY BY CONSENSUS Michael Bruno STATE AND ECONOMY IN NEW ZEALAND Brian Roper & Chris Rudd (eds)     

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Book review in this article
HUMAN ACTION A 50 - YEAR TRIBUTE Richard M. Ebeling (ed.)
THE COMPETITION OF IDEAS: HOW MY COLLEAGUES AND I BUILT THE HOOVER INSTITUTION D. R. Myddelton
THE ELGAR COMPANION TO PUBLIC CHOICE William F. Shughart II and Laura Razzolini (eds.)
FIGHTING POVERTY WITH VIRTUE: MORAL REFORM AND AMERICA'S URBAN POOR, 1825–2000 Joel Schwartz
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LABOUR MARKET INSTITUTIONS Gilles Saint-Paul
WINNERS, LOSERS & MICROSOFT: COMPETITION AND ANTITRUST IN HIGH TECHNOLOGY Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis
HARD GREEN: SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT FROM THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS: A CONSER VATIVE MANIFESTO Peter W. Huber     

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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: 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     

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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.)