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Reviews the book "Human Capital and Economic Development," edited by Sisay Asefa and Wei-Chiao Huang.

Reviews the book "World Resources 1986," by the Institute and the International Institute for Environment and Development.

Reviews the book "World Development Report 1981."

Reviews the book "Coal and Tobacco: The Lowthers and the Economic Development of West Cumberland, 1660-1760," by J. V. Beckett.

Reviews the book "Ciudad Real 1500–1750: Growth, Crisis and Readjustment in the Spanish Economy," by Carla Rahn Phillips.

Reviews the book "Latin American Theories of Development and Underdevelopment," by Cristobal Kay.

Reviews the book "New Directions in Development," by Donald Mickelwait, Charles F. Sweet, and Elliott R. Morss.

Reviews the book "Local Economic Development: Public-Private Partnership Initiation in Britain and Germany," by R.J. Bennett and G. Krebs.

Reviews the book "Economic Restructuring and Political Response," edited by R. Beauregard.

Reviews the book "Banking and Economic Development: Some Lessons of History," edited by R. Cameron.

Reviews the book 'Economic Growth Reassessed,' edited by O. J. Firestone.

Reviews the book "Development Policies. Sociological Perspectives," edited by A. Hall and J. Midgley.

Reviews the book "Sustainable Development: Exploring the Contradictions," by M. Redclift.

Reviews the book 'The European Experience: A Historical Critique of Development Theory,' by Dieter Senghaas.

Reviews two books by Luiz Pereira. "Ensaios de Sociologica do Desenvolvimento"; "Estudos Sôbre o Brasil Contemporâneo."

Reviews the book "International Social Development Review," vol. 3, "Unified Socio-Economic Development and Planning: Some New Horizons."

Reviews the book "Economic Growth in History: Survey and Analysis," by J.D. Gould.

Reviews the book "Class Privilege and Economic Development. The Consulado de Comercio of Guatemala, 1793-1871," by Ralph Lee Woodward.

The article discusses the book "Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century," written by Eric R. Wolf analyzing the role of the peasantry in the major events of twentieth century. It defines peasants as "populations existentially involved in cultivation and making autonomous decisions regarding the processes of cultivation." It describes the events of liberation wars in Mexico, Russia, China, Vietnam, Algeria and Cuba. This book shows the changes imposed upon the peasantry in the processes of social change and economic development, how they are thrown mercilessly into a monetary economy for which they were culturally and financially unprepared. Demographic changes influenced and aggravated the developments. At the same time, the social role of peasants recedes. It elaborates on the special features limiting the active and independent role of peasants in revolutions and the particular difficulties of the exogenous leadership to gain the villager's trust. The book is very valuable for rural sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists and social historians.

Reviews the book "Britain and America, 1850-1939: A Study of Economic Change," by P.S. Bagwell and G.E. Mingay.

Reviews the book 'Regional Economic Development in Italy,' by Lloyd Saville.

Reviews the book 'Assessing Economic Performance,' by Michael Lipton.

Focuses on the contents of the book 'Growing Prosperity,' by Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone. Critique of the Wall Street model; Relationship between investment in technologies and productivity growth.

Reviews the book "Vom Kleingewerbe zur Grossindustrie: Quantitativ-regionale und politisch-rechtliche Aspekte zur Erforschung der Wirtschafts- und Gessellschaftsstruktur im 19: Jahrhundert," edited by Harald Winkel.

Reviews the book "Kali in Deutschland: Vorindustrien, Produktions-techniken und Marktprozesse der Deutschen Kaliwirtschaft im 19: Jahrhundert," by Karl von Delhaes-Guenther.

Reviews the book "Reversal of Development in Argentina: Post-War Counter Revolution Policies and Their Structural Consequences," by Carlo H. Waisman.

Reviews the book 'The Sources of Economic Growth,' by Richard R. Nelson.

Reviews the book "British Economic Growth: 1688-1959: Trends and Structure," by Phyllis Deane and W.A. Cole.

The article reviews the book "Science and Economic Development: New Patterns of Living," by Richard L. Meier.

The article reviews the book "Motivating Economic Achievement," by David McClelland and David G. Winter .

Reviews the book "Social Leaders and Public Persons: A study of County Government in Cheshire Since 1888," by J.M. Lee.

Reviews the book "Developing the Third World: The Experiences of the Nineteen-Sixties," edited by R. Robinson.

Reviews the book "India's Export Trends and the Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth," by Manmohan Singh.