Content
July 1997, Volume 64, Issue 1
- 345-347 Monetary Interpretations of the Great Depression. By Frank G. Steindl. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 197. $42.50
by Herbert M. Kaufman - 347-348 Uncertainty in Economic Thought. Edited by Christian Schmidt. Cheltenham, UK and Brookfield, US: Edward Elgar, 1996. Pp. viii, 239. $79.95
by Israel M. Kirzner - 348-349 The Making of Economic Policy: A Transaction‐Cost Politics Perspective. By Avinash K. Dixit. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 192. $22.50
by Jim Leitzel - 349-350 The Causes and Costs of Depository Institution Failures. Edited by Allin F. Cottrell,Michael S. Lawlor, and John H. Wood. The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. Pp. vii, 250. $89.95
by Christine Loucks - 350-352 Adam Smith's System of Liberty, Wealth, and Virtue: The Moral and Political Foundations of the Wealth of Nations. By Athol Fitzgibbons. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. 214. $48.00
by S. Todd Lowry - 352-353 Accounting for Tastes. By Gary S. Becker. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. viii, 268. $35.00
by Larry T. McRae - 353-355 The Tyranny of the Market: A Critique of Theoretical Foundations. By Douglas Vickers. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 261. $49.50
by Leland G. Neuberg - 355-358 Game Theory and the Social Contract. Vol. II: Just Playing. By Ken Binmore. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1997. Pp. 540. $39.95
by Andreas Ortmann - 358-358 The Florida Land Boom: Speculation, Money and the Banks. By William Frazer and John Guthrie, Jr. Westport, Connecticut: Quorum Books, 1995. Pp. x, 181. $29.95
by Richard A. Phillips - 359-360 Beyond Positivism and Relativism: Theory, Method, and Evidence. By Larry Laudan. Oxford and New York: Westview Press, 1996. Pp. ix, 277. $22.95
by David L. Prychitko - 360-362 Economic Policy and Stabilization in Latin America. By Nader Nazmi. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1996. Pp. xiii, 207. $55.00 cloth, $24.95 paper
by Miguel D. Ramirez - 362-363 Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth. By Marc Egnal. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 300. $45.00
by Warren J. Samuels - 363-365 Economic Institutions, Markets and Competition: Centralization and Decentralization in the Transformation of Economic Systems. Edited by Bruno Dallago and Luigi Mittone. Cheltenham, UK and Brookfield, Vermont: Edward Elgar Publishing Co., 1996. Pp. xv, 400. $94.95
by David Schap - 365-366 Economic Effects of Fundamental Tax Reform. Edited by Henry Aaron and William Gale. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1996. Pp. xvii, 521. $52.95 cloth, $24.95 paper
by Russell S. Sobel - 366-367 Currency and Coercion: The Political Economy of International Monetary Power. By Jonathan Kirshner. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. Pp. 289. $39.50
by Scott Sumner - 368-369 Biodiversity Loss: Economic and Ecological Issues. Edited by Charles Perrings, Karl‐Göran Mäler, Carl Folke, C. S. Holling, and Bengt‐Owe Jansson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 332. $54.95
by Stephen K. Swallow - 369-371 The World Economy and National Finance in Historical Perspective. By Charles P. Kindleberger. Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. vi, 257. $47.50
by Kashi Nath Tiwari - 371-372 Job Creation and Destruction. By Steven J. Davis, John C. Haltiwanger, and Scott Schuh. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. 1996. Pp. xxii, 280. $30.00
by Charles J. Whalen - 372-374 Funding the Modern American State, 1941‐1995: The Rise and Fall of the Era of Easy Finance. Edited by W. Elliot Brownlee. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 467. $59.95
by Duane Windsor - 374-375 The Microstructure of Foreign Exchange Markets. Edited by Jeffrey A. Frankel, Giampaolo Galli, and Alberto Giovannini. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. x, 356. $65.00
by Kin‐Wah Richard Wong - 375-376 Arab Industrialization in Israel: Ethnic Entrepreneurship in the Periphery. By Izhak Schnell, Michael Sofer, and Israel Drori. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1995. Pp. ix, 204. $55.00
by J. W. Wright