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The article reviews the book "Workers, Capital, and the State of British Columbia: Selected Papers," edited by Rennie Warburton and Donald Coburn.

Reviews the book 'Papers on the Economy of Botswana,' edited by Charles Harvey.

The article reviews the book "The Adaptation Industry: The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation" by Simone Murray.

The article reviews the book "Schumpeter on the Economics of Innovation and the Development of Capitalism," by Arnold Heertje.

Reviews the book "Principles of Transport Economics," by E. Quinet and R. Vickerman.

Reviews the book "The Decline of the South African Economy," edited by Stuart Jones.

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]

The article reviews the book "Beyond Territory: Dynamic Geographies of Knowledge Creation, Diffusion and Innovation," edited by Harald Bathelt, Maryann P. Feldman and Dieter F. Kogler.

The article reviews the book "Spatial Dynamics, Networks and Modelling," edited by Aura Reggiani and Peter Nijkamp.