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Reviews the book 'Marchés, Capital et Incertitude,' edited by M. Boiteux, Th. de Montbrial, and B. Munier.

Reviews the book "Restoring Europe's Prosperity: Macroeconomic Papers From the Centre for European Policy Studies," by O. Blanchard, R. Dornbusch and R. Layard.

Reviews the book 'The Foundations of Monetary Economics,' vol.3, edited by David Laidler.

Reviews the book 'Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 3, Individual Choice Under Certainty' and 'Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 4, The Economics of Information,' by K.J. Arrow.

The article reviews the book "Contemporary Issues in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications," edited by Ralf Becker and Stan Hurn.

Reviews the book "The Economics of Property-Casualty Insurance," edited by David F. Bradford.

Reviews the book 'Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 2, General Equilibrium,' by K.J. Arrow.

Reviews the book 'Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume I, Social Choice and Justice,' by K.J. Arrow.

Reviews the book 'Antitrust Economics,' by Oliver E. Williamson.

Reviews the book `American Domestic Priorities: An Economic Appraisal,' edited by John M. Quigley and Daniel Rubinfeld.

The article reviews the book "The global economy in the 1990s: a long run perspective," edited by Paul W. Rhode and Gianni Toniolo.

Reviews the book 'Completing Transition: The Main Challenges,' edited by Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, Lindsay Wolfe and Peter Mooslechner.

Reviews the book "Advances in Monetary Economics," edited by David Currie.

The article reviews the book "India Policy Forum," by Otmar Issing and Gaspar Martins, edited by Suman Bery, Barry Bosworth and Arvind Panagriya.

Reviews the book 'Innovation Policy in a Global Economy,' by Daniele Archibugi.

Reviews the book 'Village-Level Modernization in Southeast Asia: The Political Economy of Rice and Water,' edited by Geoffrey B. Hainsworth.

Reviews the book 'Psychological Economics: Development, Tensions, Prospects,' edited by Peter E. Earl.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'The Economics of Small Firms: A European Challenge,' edited by Z. Acs and D. B. Audretsch.

Despite the frequent criticisms of the forecasting achievements of large scale econometric models their makers, undiscouraged, continue to nibble at the problem of increasing the realism, accuracy, and reliability of their forecasts as compared with those of naive models. Medium and long-term models are often found to perform the most satisfactorily in practice and seem therefore to be well-suited for exploratory studies. This volume describes some of the ongoing efforts, results, and future plans of a group of economists in the development of a medium term (five year) projections model of the Swedish economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'Spatial Choices and Processes,' edited by Manfred M. Fischer, Peter Nijkamp and Yorgos Y. Papageorgiou.

Reviews the book "Economic Theory and Econometrics," by L. Klein.

The article reviews the book "Volatility and Growth: The Clarendon Lectures in Economics," by Philippe Aghion and Abhijit Banerjee.

The article reviews the book "The Reluctant Economist: Perspectives on Economics, Economic History, and Demography," by Richard A. Easterlin.

The article reviews the book "Economics and the Future: Time and Discounting in Private and Public Decision Making," by D. J. Pannell and S. G. M. Schilizzi.

Reviews the book 'Natural Resource Economics: Selected Papers,' by S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup and edited by Richard C. Bishop and Stephen O. Andersen.

Reviews the book "Modelling the Economy," edited by G.A. Renton.

Reviews the book 'Modelling the International Transmission Mechanism,' edited by John A. Sawyer.

Reviews two books on economics. 'The Economics of the Single European Act,' edited by George McKenzie and Anthony Venables; 'Economics for the New Europe,' edited by Anthony Atkinson and Renato Brunetta.

One of the most gracious gestures of respect on the retirement of an eminent person is the revelation of a sense of diminution (and perhaps void) caused by the event. When the case on hand involves a leading academic, colleagues and former students gather in a Festschrift to reminisce, and reassure the scholar about the lasting value of his contributions to the scientific community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews two books on economy and environment. "Estimating Economic Values for Nature: Methods for Nonmarket Valuation," by V. Kerry Smith; "Environmental Options: Accounting for Sustainability," by Kimio Uno.

The article reviews the book "Modern Finance and Industrial Economics," by Thomas E. Copeland.

The article reviews the book "Frontiers of Economics," edited by K. J. Arrow and S. Honkapohja.

Reviews the book "Issues in Monetary Economics: Proceedings of the 1972 Money Study Group Conference," edited by H.G. Johnson and A.R. Nobay.

Reviews the book "Markets, Games, and Organizations: Essays in Honor of Roy Radner," edited by Tatsuro Ichiishi and Thomas Marschak.

This paper argues that Piketty's book should not simply be seen as that of an economist, but that it contains significant resources for sociologists to draw upon. These are firstly, this approach to social science and his use of visualizations which chime closely with recent claims about the power of description. Secondly I consider his conceptualization of time and history - which in rebutting epochal arguments about the speed of contemporary change allows for a much better appreciation of the 'long durée'; and finally his conceptualization of social classes and privilege through his elaboration of a sociology of accumulation and inheritance. In all these ways, Piketty's work assists in developing an account of elites and wealth which should be highly productive for future sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Economics and Religion (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics)," Volumes I and II, edited by Paul Oslington.

The article reviews the book "Schumpeter on the Economics of Innovation and the Development of Capitalism," by Arnold Heertje.

Reviews the book 'Economic Conditions and Welfare Reform,' edited by Sheldon H. Danziger.

The article reviews the book "Interpreting Mr Keynes: The IS-LM Enigma," by Warren Young.

Reviews the book "Advances in Economic Theory--Fifth World Congress," edited by Truman Bewley.

Reviews the book "Economics in Disarray," edited by Peter Wiles and Guy Routh.

Reviews the book 'Models of Strategic Rationality,' by Reinhard Selten.

The article reviews the book "The Economics of Mobile Telecommunications," by Harald Gruber.

Books reviewed: TAKATOSHI ITO and ANNE O. KRUEGER (eds.), Governance, Regulation, and Privatization in The Asia-Pacific Region. ELHANAN HELPMAN, The Mystery of Economic Growth. DANIEL H. ROSEN, SCOTT ROZELLE and JIKUN HUANG, Roots of Competitiveness: China's Evolving Agriculture Interests JAMES J. HECKMAN and CARMEN PAGÉS (eds.), Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]