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Paul A. Baran. The Political Economy of Growth. New York 1957. Monthly Review Press. 308 p. $5.- Martin Beckmann, C. B. McGuire, and Christopher B. Winsten. Studies in the Economics of Transportation. Cowles Commission for Research in Economics. New Haven 1956. Yale University Press. 232 p. $4.- Robert N. Bellah. Tokugawa Religion. The Values of Pre-Industrial Japan. Glencoe, Illinois, 1957. Free Press. 259 p. $5.- Erik Boettcher (Hg.). Sozialpolitik und Sozialreform. Ein einfüUhrendes Lehr- und Handbuch der Sozialpolitik. TüUbingen 1957. Mohr (Siebeck). X, 344 p. Paper 13 Dm, Cloth 17 DM Domenico Demarco (Ed.). Studi in onore di Antonio Genovesi nel bicentenario della istituzione delta Cattedra di Economia. (Under the auspices of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce of the University of Naples and of the Salerno Chamber of Commerce.) Naples 1956. L'Arte Tipografia. 348 p. Pierre Dieterlen. L'investissement. Avec observations de Tibor Scitovsky et Jacques PeyréAga. Paris 1957. RiviéGre. 368 p. 1200 fr.fr. Milovan Djilas. The New Class. An Analysis of the Communist System. New York 1957. Frederick A. Praeger. 214 p. $3.95 Bruno Kiesewetter. Statistiken zur Wirtschaft Ost-und SüUdosteuropas, Teil III: Handel und Verkehr. (Deutsches Institut füUr Wirtschaftsforschung, Sonderhefte n.f. Nr. 33.) Berlin 1957. Duncker & Humblot. 192 S. inkl. 177 S. Tabellen. 30 DM Harold Koontz und Richard W. Gable. Public Control of Economic Enterprise. New York/Toronto/London, 1956. McGraw-Hill. XII, 851 S. $7.- Lucien Laurat. Bilan de vingt-cinq ans de plans quinquennaux ( 1929-1955). Paris 1955. Les Iles d'Or. 263 p. Charlotte Leubuscher. Bulk Buying from the Colonies. A Study of the Bulk Purchase of Colonial Commodities by the United Kingdom Government. (Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.) London/New York/Toronto 1956. Oxford University Press, XI, 206 p. 30 s. Peter Meyer-Dohm. Der westdeutsche BüUchermarkt. Eine Untersuchung der Marktstruktur, zugleich ein Beitrag zur Analyse der vertikalen Preisbindung. Stuttgart 1957. Gustav Fischer Verlag. 203 S. 14 DM Michel Moret. L'éAchange international. Paris 1957. RiviéGre. 371 p. 1300 fr.fr. Giuseppe Ugo Papi. Teoria della condotta economica dello Stato ( The Theory of Economic Conduct of the State). Milano 1956. GuiffréG. XVI, 410 p. L. 2500 Rolf Sannwald and Jacques Stohler. Wirtschaftliche Integration. Theoretische Voraussetzungen und Folgen eines europäUischen Zusammenschlusses. (Publications of the List Society Vol. 8, edited by Harry W. Zimmermann.) Kyklos-Verlag, Basel, and Mohr (Siebeck), Tubingen, 1958. XIV, 245 p. 20.50 DM David Savan. Newcomers from Israel. Research Committee Canadian Jewish Congress, Central Region. Toronto 1955. 43 p. World Wide Jewish Migration, 1951-1957. Research Department, American Council for Judaism. New York 1957. 17 p. W. M. Scammell. International Monetary Policy. Londres 1957. Macmillan. XIV, 402 p. 40s. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. The Age of Roosevelt, Vol. 1: The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933. London/Melbourne/Toronto 1957. Heinemann. XI, 569 p. 42s. ($6.-) Otto Veit (unter Mitwirkung von O. Peters, B. Stadermann und H. BöUdler). Die veräUnderte WäUhrungspolitik und ihre Folgen. Institut füUr das Kreditwesen, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-UniversitäUt. Frankfurt a.M. 1957. Fritz Knapp Verlag. 182 S. Josua Werner. Die WirtschaftsverbäUnde in der Marktwirtsckaft. ZüUrich und St. Gallen 1957. Polygraphischer Verlag. 231 S. sFr. 22.80 Hans WüUrgler. Malthus als Kritiker der Klassik. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der klassischen Wirtschaftstheorie. Winterthur 1957. Verlag P. G. Keller, XXIV, 200 p. The Nature of Conflict. Studies on the Sociological Aspects of International Tensions. By the International Sociological Association in collaboration with Jessie Bernard, T. H. Pear, Raymond Aron, Robert C. Angell. Paris 1957. Unesco. Social and Political Thought in Byzantium, from Justinian I to the Last Palaeologus. Passages from Byzantine writers and documents. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Ernest Barker. Oxford 1957. Clarendon Press, XVI, 240 p. 30s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents information about several books related to economics. "Economic and Social Problems of the Machine Age," by A.B. Anthony attempts to discuss economic problems as the continued recurrence of industrial depression; the conservation of national resources; inequality in the distribution of wealth; industrial combinations and monopolies; and dangerous economic international rivalries. Necessarily this reduces the discussion to the briefest of summaries. "American Standards and Planes of Living," by T.D. Eliot is made up of an introduction and nearly two hundred selections on consumption grouped under fourteen heads. To each section is appended a long list of additional references. "World Workers' Educational Movements: Their Social Significance," by M. Hansome is on the basis of a study of 67 workers' educational enterprises, grouped according to their emphasis-cooperative, trade union, political, cultural, or integration. The author discusses the general character and problems of workers' education and its social implications.

Freakonomics is more about entertainment than it is a serious attempt at popularization. Consequently, rather than conduct a comprehensive fact check, I use the book as a springboard for a broader inquiry into social science research and take issue with the book's surprising premise that Economics is a science with excellent tools for gaining answers but a serious shortage of interesting questions. Using examples from Freakonomics, I argue that some of the questions the book addresses are uninteresting because it is impossible to even imagine what a good answer would look like. I conclude with some thoughts about the role of economic theory in generating interesting questions and/or answers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jacqueline Best (2005) The Limits of Transparency: Ambiguity and the History of International Finance, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Pepper D. Culpepper (2003) Creating Cooperation: How States Develop Human Capital in Europe, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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