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Reviews the book "Population Growth and Economic Development in Low-Income Countries," by A.J. Coale and E.M. Hoover.

Reviews the book 'Rice and Risk: Decision Making Among Low Income Farmers,' by James A. Roumasset.

Reviews the book "Volatile States: Institutions, Policy, and the Performance of American State Economics," by Mark W. Crain.

The article reviews the book "The Economics of the Ghetto," by Carolyn Shaw Bell.

(P)rocesses of subjectification are nothing to do with "private lives" but characterize the way individuals and communities are constituted as subjects on the margins of established forms of knowledge and instituted powers (Deleuze [8], p. 151). According to Venn, neo-liberal capitalism functions as a system of small world, complex digital, algorithmic networks designed by elites to combine particular forms of performativity and efficiency in a systemic hub intended to capture wealth within "economic, social, political and administrative agencies and practices" - seemingly forever (Venn [30], pp. 9-10, p. 43). Mirroring Isabella Stengers, Venn proposes a "...cosmopolitical project aligned with a politics of the commons" (Venn [30], p. 127; Stengers [28], p. 994). Venn's claim that ethics can be "rethought" by utilising the insights of quantum physicists reflects theoretical physicist David Bohm's preoccupation with problematising the cult of individuality with the potentiality of quantum states determined by non-locality (Venn [30], p. 127). [Extracted from the article]

An economics professor catalogs the countless ways in which the financial system fails ordinary consumers while favoring the wealthy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything," by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.

Reviews the book 'The New Far East.'

Reviews the book "Economics and the Public Purpose," by John Kenneth Galbraith.

The article reviews the book "Permanent Income, Wealth, and Consumption: A Critique of the Permanent Income Theory, the Life Cycle Hypothesis and Related Theories," by Thomas Mayer.

Reviews the book 'Redrawing the Global Economy: Elements of Integration and Fragmentation,' by Alice Landau.

The article reviews the book "Africa Economic and Financial Data."

Reviews the book "The Political Economy of Social Security," by B. A. Gustafsson and N. Anders Klevmarken.

Reviews the book "Economic Change in Precolonial Africa," vol.1, "Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade," and vol.2, "Supplementary Evidence," by Philip D. Curtin.

Reviews the book "The Origins of Scientific Economics," by William Letwin.

Reviews the book "Consommation et épargne," by Jean-Claude Eicher.

Reviews the book "Razmeshchenie chernoi metallurgi SSSR," by R.S. Livshits.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty provides a unified theory of the functioning of the capitalist economy by linking theories of economic growth and functional and personal income distributions. It argues, based on the long-run historical data series, that the forces of economic divergence (including rising income inequality) tend to dominate in capitalism. It regards the twentieth century as an exception to this rule and proposes policies that would make capitalism sustainable in the twenty-first century. (JEL D31, D33, E25, N10, N30, P16) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A literary criticism of the book "No Citizen Left Behind" by Meira Levinson is presented. It outlines the criticisms of several people who took part in the symposium on the book, organized by the Philosophy of Education Society's standing committee on race and ethnicity (CORE) including Michelle Moses, Sally Sayles-Hannon and Winston Thompson. It also examines Levinson's civic empowerment gap, social transformation and political economy.

The article reviews the book "A Handbook of Transport Economics," edited by André De Palma, Robin Lindsey, Emile Quinet, and Roger Vickerman.

The article reviews the books "The Politics of Medicaid," by Laura Katz Olson, and "Medicaid Everyone Can Count On: Public Choices for Equity and Efficiency," by Thomas W. Grannemann and Mark V. Pauly.

The article reviews the book "Europe and Euro," edited by A. Alesina and F. Giavazzi.

The article reviews the book "Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us," by John Quiggin.

The article reviews the book “Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System," by Douglas S. Massey.

Reviews the book "Volatile States: Institutions, Policy, and the Performance of American State Economies," by W. Mark Crain.

In Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development, Stiglitz and Charlton prescribe what a multilateral trade agreementthat promotes development and is fair for allwould include. This review appraises their prescriptions and offers some alternatives. Many of their ideas about what developed countries should do (opening markets, especially of labor intensive goods and services and cutting farm subsidies) are quite familiar and sensible. More controversially, however, they propose that all WTO members (both developed and developing) completely open their markets to all developing countries poorer and smaller than themselves. They also stress the importance of preserving domestic policy space, dropping intellectual property rules from the WTO and keeping restrictive rules off the agenda. Among its criticisms of the book, the review points out that the liberalization proposal contradicts their own arguments favoring individually tailored policies in developing countries and is likely to maximize trade diversion. In addition, their prescriptions for more policy space neglects the more desirable possibility of a WTO in which members accept differentiated commitments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Sports Economics After Fifty Years: Essays in Honour of Simon Rottenberg," by Plàdico Rodrìguez, Stefan Kèsenne and Jaume Garcìa.

The article reviews the book "Water Resource Economics: The Analysis of Scarcity, Policies, and Projects," by Ronald C. Griffin.