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The article reviews the book "The Bright-Meyler Papers: A Bristol-West India Connection, 1732-1837," edited by Kenneth Morgan.

Reviews the book 'Money and Growth: Selected Papers of Allyn Abott Young,' edited by Perry G. Merling and Roger J. Sandilands.

Reviews the book "Papers on Public Credit, Commerce and Finance," by A Hamilton and edited by Samuel McKee.

Research in construction labour productivity (CLP) has paid little attention to the social and behavioural aspects of onsite, physical, construction trade crews. The mainstream organisational and management literature provides an alternative line of inquiry where trade crews can be conceptualised as teams. By taking this perspective, the behaviours and interdependencies among crew members can be more readily understood in terms of influences on CLP. Using a structured review methodology, a conceptual framework is developed in stages by merging the concepts of teamwork and CLP. The framework begins with a broad scaffolding that draws together two established models: the input-mediators-output model and the big five framework. The more detailed and explanatory contribution uses these from the literature to identify a set of task-focussed and relationship-focussed team processes. A key benefit of the framework is that crew teamwork can be used as a means of mediating what was previously many separate CLP variables. Importantly, the proposed framework views teamwork in the context of trade crews as against viewing teamwork as a professional or managerially focussed phenomenon. To this end, this paper advances three research propositions and methodological possibilities which in future research could be tested to tailor the framework for best fit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A review of the book "Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia," edited by Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-Chin Chang, with a foreword by Wang Gungwu, is presented.

A review of the book "Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities & Networks in Southeast Asia," edited by Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-Chin Chang, with a foreword Wang Gungwu, is presented.

In Praise of Commercial Culture . By Tyler Cowen (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), ix  +  278 pp. $14.95 paper. What Price Fame? By Tyler Cowen (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000), 248 pp. $22.00 cloth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "The Interactions of Amsterdam and Antwerp With the Baltic Region, 1400-1800," edited by J.H. Van Stuijvenberg.

The article reviews the book "Limits to Competition."

This article reviews the book "India Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents From the Cairo Geniza (India Book)," by Shelomo D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman.

Reviews the book "Competition Policy in the Global Trading System," by Clifford A. Jones and Mitsuo Matsushita.

The article reviews the book "Rivalry and Conflict: European Traders and Asian Trading Networks in the 16th and 17th Centuries," edited by Ernst Van Veen and Leonard Blessé.

The article reviews the book "Democracy and Efficiency in the Economic Enterprise," edited by Ugo Pagano and Robert Rowthorn.

The article reviews the book "Trade, Markets and Welfare," by Kelvin Lancaster.

The article reviews the book "International Business in China," edited by L. Kelley and O. Shenkar.

The article reviews the book "Inventing Times Square: Commerce and Culture at the Crossroads of the World," edited by William R. Taylor.

The article reviews the book "Calculations for Distribution and Commerce," by W. R. Page.

The article reviews the book "Commerce," by D. Treharne Williams.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'Trade Fallacies,' by Arthur Kitson.

The article reviews the book "Commerce in Russian Urban Culture, 1861-1914," edited by William Craft Brumfield, Boris V. Anan'ich and Yuri A. Petrov.

Reviews the book "Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa," by Robert H. Bates.

The article reviews the book "Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450-1680. Volume Two: Expansion and Crisis," by Anthony Reid.

Reviews the book "Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce: Studies in New Era Thought and Practice," edited by Ellis W. Hawley.

The article reviews the book "Stavanger Museum Årbok 1992," or "1992 Yearbook of the Stavanger Museum."

Reviews the book "Merchants and the Jews: The Struggle for British West Indian Commerce, 1650-1750," by Stephen A. Fortune.

Reviews the book "Levant Trade in the Later Middle Ages," by Eliyahu Ashtor.

The article focuses on the United States Department of Commerce, its budget, administrations, offices, agencies and bureaus. An overview of how publishing decisions are made throughout the department is presented with specific consideration given to the department's most popular publications. The operations of the National Technical Information Service of the Department of Commerce are described, including its technical orientation and bibliographic databases. Information related to the sales, circulation, and frequency of publication for various periodicals are presented.

Reviews the book "The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846," by Charles Sellers.

Reviews the book "Commerce in Russian Urban Culture, 1861-1914," edited by William Craft Brumfield, Boris V. Anan'ich and Yuri A. Petrov.

The article reviews the book "Commerce: A Guide to the Business World," by L. Gartside.

The article presents a review of the book "Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics," by Jane Jacobs.

The article reviews the book "A Contribution to the General Equilibrium Theory of Preferential Trading," by Murray Kemp.

The article reviews the book "The Fur Farms of Alaska: Two Centuries of History and a Forgotten Stampede," by Sarah Crawford Isto.

The article reviews the book "Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia," edited by Eric Tagliacozzo and Wen-Chin Chang, with a foreword by Wang Gungwu.

The article reviews the book "Across the Perilous Sea: Japanese Trade With China and Korea from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries," translated by Charlotte von Verschuer and Kristen Lee Hunter.