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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 '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 "Advances in Monetary Economics," edited by David Currie.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

The article reviews the book "Simplicity, Inference and Modelling: Keeping It Sophisticatedly Simple," edited by Arnold Zellner, Hugo A. Keuzenkamp and Michael McAleer.

Reviews the book "The Economic Theory of Organization and the Firm," by Richard M. Cyert.

Reviews the book 'Approaches to Economic Well-Being,' by David Laidler.

Reviews the book 'Selected Economic Writings of Abba P. Lerner,' edited by David C. Colander.

The focus of this book is the nature and proper constitution of the economic order in the United States. The subject is approached in ten essays divided among three perspectives, all focusing on the nature and relationship of Christianity and capitalism. Two historical essays, by John Pawlikowski and David Krueger, offer valuable grounding in (respectively) Catholic and Protestant approaches to ethical analysis of economic issues. Contemporary Christian Ethics is represented in essays by Franklin Gamwell, Robert Benne, Cornel West, Douglas Sturm, and Widick Schroeder, while perspectives from economics, social theory, and anthropology are provided in essays by Daniel Finn, Bruce Grelle, and Kay Warren. In many ways the key piece in this anthology is Gamwell's paper, which poses the broad question of the interrelation between liberal political thought, religious ethics, and the economic order and argues that an ongoing dispute within liberalism itself is a major obstacle to consensus on the proper shape of the economic sphere. With the reawakened interest in application of religious ethical analysis to defining social justice in the economy, however, all the component essays of this volume are useful, and varied, sources of thoughtful reflection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Pioneers in Development--Second Series," edited by Gerald M. Meier.

Reviews the book "Economics As a Process: Essays in the New Institutional Economics," edited by Richard N. Langlois.

Reviews the book "Rivalry and Central Planning: The Socialist Calculation Debate Reconsidered," by Don Lavoie.

Reviews the book "Game-Theoretic Models of Bargaining," edited by A.E. Roth.

Reviews the book "The Early Economic Writings of Alfred Marshall 1867-1890," edited by J. K. Whitaker.

This volume is the first in a proposed annual series of essay collections presenting current research on the subject of experimental economics. Its appearance perhaps reflects the strength of persistent murmurings of concern about the validity of economists' behavioral assumptions, an important aspect of which touches subtleties of behavior often important at the micro level and in the operation of market institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Competing Economic Theories: Essays in Memory of Giovanni Caravale," edited by Sergio Nistoco and Domenico Tosato.

Reviews the book 'A Guide for the Young Economist: Writing and Speaking Effectively About Economics,' by William Thomson.

Reviews the book "Family Economic Behavior: Problems and Prospects," edited by Eleanor B. Sheldon.

Reviews the book "Economic Complexity: Chaos, Sunspots, Bubbles and Nonlinearity," edited by William A. Barnett, John Geweke and Karl Shell.

Reviews the book 'Dangerous Currents: The State of Economics,' by Lester C. Thurow.

Reviews the book 'Latin American Experiments in Neoconservative Economics,' by Alejandro Foxley.