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The article reviews the book "Paper Fortunes: Modern Wall Street; Where It's Been and Where It's Going," by Roy C. Smith.

Reviews the book "Measuring Benefits of Government Investments. Papers Presented at a Conference of Experts Held Nov. 7-9, 1963," edited by Robert Dorfman.

The theme of the conference, as stated in the title of the proceedings, is somewhat misleading in that the papers and comments presented cover a much broader array of issues than simply new sources of capital. The material presented ranges from proposals for new instruments that are documented with theoretical models, through presentations involving tabulations documenting current industry practices, to verbal descriptions of where the industry appears to be heading. The lengthier and more mathematically sophisticated contributions are, with one exception, authored by academicians. The shorter pieces, with one exception, are by industry-related participants. This last group includes many current and former employees of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Energy Investments and the Environment: Selected Topics: A Collection of Papers Prepared for a Workshop Organized by the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank in October 1990," edited by Corazon M. Siddayao.

The article presents a review of the book "The Investment Process," edited by John M. Lishan and David T. Crary.

The article reviews the book "Determinants of Investment Behavior: A Conference of the Universities National Bureau Committee for Economic Research," by Robert Ferber.

Reviews the book "Investment in Women's Human Capital," edited by T. Paul Schultz.

This book can be divided, for purposes of discussion, into three main parts. Part One (Chapters 1 and 2) contains a model of investment decisions and sets out some of the behavioral implications of that model. The second part (Chapters 3 and 4) summarizes the results of a survey of the leading Canadian business firms which was designed to ferret out the actual processes by which business investment decisions were made. In this manner, the author sought to justify or rationalize his model of the investment decision. The third part of the book (Chapters 5 to 9) discusses the theoretical and empirical effects on the firm of various types of fiscal and monetary policies which have been used or are now under consideration in Canada. After briefly presenting the theoretical aspects of these policies, Helliwell goes on to estimate the probability that firms with diverse characteristics would be affected significantly by these policies, to estimate the gross value of the changes in the tax rules to the firms in question, and to analyze the reactions of firms in terms of these same characteristics. As a basis for his conclusions, Helliwell uses data from a survey conducted by the Canadian Royal Commission on Banking and Finance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Regularization of Business Investment," edited by Melvin De Chazeau.

The article reviews the book "Regularization of Business Investment," edited by Melvin G. De Chazeau.

The article reviews the book "The Theory of Investment of the Firm," by Friedrich Lutz and Vera Lutz.

Reviews the book "Strategic Investment Decisions: Theory, Practice, and Process," by Richard Butler.

Reviews the book "Multinational Investment in Modern Europe: Strategic Interaction in the Integrated Community," edited by John Cantwell.

The article reviews the book "Industrial Investment in Europe: Economic Theory and Measurement," edited by D. Weiserbs.

Reviews the book 'Determinants of Investment Behaviour: A Conference of the Universities National Bureau Committee for Economic Research,' edited by Robert Ferber.

The article presents a review of the book "Principles of Modern Investments," by Charles A. D'Ambrosio.

Pension Fund Capitalism. Gordon Clark. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xvii and 342 pp., diags., notes, and index. $65.00 cloth (ISBN 0-19-924047-7); $29.95 paper (ISBN 0-19-924048-5). Reviewed by Andrew Herod, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Socialist Investment Cycles: Analysis in Retrospect," by Peter Mihalyi.

Reviews the book "New Forms of Investment in Developing Country Industries: Mining, Petrochemicals, Automobiles, Textiles, Food," by Charles Oman, Francois Chesnais, Joseph Pelzman and Ruth Rama.

Reviews the book 'Public Policies and Private Investment,' by John F. Helliwell.

Reviews the book 'Determinants of Investment Behavior: A Conference of the Universities National Bureau Committee for Economic Research.'

The article presents a review of the book "Investments," by Robert W. Kolb.

A review of the book "Wealth Your Way: A Simple Path to Financial Freedom," by Cosmo P. DeStefano, is presented.

Reviews the book "The Next Crisis? Direct and Equity Investment in Developing Countries," by David Woodword.

Reviews the book "Studies in Austrian Capital Theory, Investment and Time," edited by M. Faber.

The article reviews the book "Investment: Capital Theory and Investment Behavior," by Dale W. Jorgenson.

The article reviews the book "Investment: Tax Policy and the Cost of Capital," by Dale W. Jorgenson.

The article reviews the book "World Investment Report, 1993: Transnational Corporations and Integrated International Production" by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Programme on Transnational Corporations.

Reviews the book "Ethics and the Investment Industry," edited by Oliver F. Williams, Frank K. Reilly and John W. Houck.

Reviews the book "Keynes, Investment Theory and the Economic Slowdown: The Role of Replacement Investment and Q-ratios," by Michael Perelman.

Reviews the book "Optimal Dynamic Investment Policies of a Value Maximizing Firm," by Peter M. Kort

Reviews the book "Time, Uncertainty and Information," by Jack Hirshleifer.

The article reviews the book "Promotion of Direct Investment in Developing Countries," edited by Heinz Hauser.

The article reviews the book "Insurance redlining: Disinvestment, reinvestment, and the evolving role of financial institutions," edited by Gregory D. Squires.

The article reviews the book "Time-to-Build: Interrelated Investment and Labour Demand Modelling With Applications to Six OECD Countries," by Marga Peeters.

The article reviews the book "Trends in Private Investment in Developing Countries 1993: Statistics for 1970-91," by Guy P. Pfeffermann and Andrea Madarassy.

Reviews the book "The Basics of Investing," Fourth Edition, by Benton E. Gup.

Reviews the book "International Investment Perspectives."

Reviews the book "Effects of U.K. Direct Investment Overseas," Final Report. University of Cambridge Department of Applied Economics Occasional Papers 15, by W. B. Reddaway and in collaboration with S. J. Potter and C. T. Taylor.

The book is both an explanation and an advocation of mean-variance portfolio theory. Alternate (complementary or substitute) approaches to security selection and portfolio construction, such as stochastic dominance, mean entropy, or generic screening and ranking procedures are not included in the book. Neither is any mention made of work on dynamic consumption-investment models. Thus, the book is in no sense eclectic. It is a book about the mean-variance approach to portfolio selection, written by one of the leaders in this field. Research on this topic is a continuing process. This is especially true in the areas of applying the basic concepts to practical investment situations, in relating the model to the traditional topics of corporate finance, and to the estimation of the basic inputs of the model. Some of the topics in Section 3, Applications and Extensions, may be supplanted by more recent studies. The book, however, will remain a primary source for anyone interested in portfolio theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Investment Principles and Practices," 5th ed., by Ralph E. Badger, Harold W. Torgerson, and Harry G. Guthmann.

A review of the book "Investments," by Julius Grodinsky, is presented.

The article reviews the book "Financial Factors and Corporate Investment: An Empirical Analysis of Korean Manufacturing Firms," by Yong-Doo Cho.

Reviews the book "A Random Walk Down Wall Street: Including a Life-Cycle Guide to Personal Investing," 6th edition, by Burton G. Malkiel.