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Reviews the book "Staff Papers Presented to the Commission on Foreign Economic Policy, February 1954."

Reviews the book 'Value, Capital, and Growth: Papers in Honour of Sir John Hicks,' edited by J.N. Wolfe.

According to its preface, this book is the outgrowth of a symposium concerning methodology in finance and investments held at Rutgers University in May 1971. It consists of eleven separate papers, varying in length from 16 to 53 pages, and covering a variety of topics grouped into five categories. A good introduction sets forth the main points of each paper. As indicated by the editor, the primary objective of the book is to contribute to the "knowledge, awareness, or understanding of" (1) methodological foundations common to finance, investments, and other fields of inquiry; (2) the essential nature of the postulates of normative behavior in finance and investments; and (3) the continuing "explosion of knowledge about the structure of the finance world." After commenting briefly on each paper, we consider the relationship between the book's purpose and its contents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews several books. "Insanity Defense," by Richard Arens; "Power Politics," by Margaret Atwood; "The American Inquisition," by Cedric Belfrage; "Letter of Credit," by Lennart Bruce.

Reviews the book "Paper Making in the British Isles: An Historical and Geographical Study," by A.H. Shorter.

Reviews the book "The Public Papers and addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937-1940," by Samuel I. Rosenman.

The article reviews several books on management science, including "Business Strategy: Selected Readings," edited by H. Igor Ansoff, "Modern Financial Management: Selected Readings," edited by B.U. Carsberg and H.C. Edey, and "Systems Thinking: Selected Readings," edited by F.E. Emery.

Reviews the book "Accountant's Working Papers," by Leslie E. Palmer and William H. Bell.

Reviews the book "The Lincoln Papers: The Story of the Collection, With Selections to July 4, 1861," edited by David C. Mearns.

The article reviews the book "Creative Paper Crafts," by Chester Jay Alkema.

The article reviews the book "Creative Paper Design," by Ernest Röttger.

The article reviews the book "Paper Shapes and Sculptures for School Use," by Mary Grace Johnston.

The article reviews the book "Paper Sculpture," by Mary Grace Johnston.

This article reviews the book "Trade, Balance of Payments, and Growth, Papers in International Economics in Honor of Charles P. Kindleberger," edited by J.N. Bhagwati and R.W. Jones.

Reviews the book "Essays on Population and Other Papers," by James Alfred Field.

The article reviews the book "The Paper Industry," by Josephine Perry.

Reviews the book "Longman Papers on Social Work. Social Work in Adoption: Collected Papers," edited by Robert Tod.

Reviews the book "Knowledge, Education and Cultural Change: Papers in the Sociology of Education," edited by Richard Brown.

The article reviews the book "From Trees to Paper," by Henry B. Lent.

Essays in International Economics contains eleven of Fleming's previously published papers, and two hitherto unpublished ones. Many of the papers will already be familiar to academic economists: several constitute classics in the field. The Essays are grouped into three categories: trade restrictions and welfare; international monetary reform; and balance of payments policy and the adjustment process. Despite the fact that the arrangement within each group is chronological, the three subjects also correspond closely to the chronological order in which various issues in international economics have emerged since World War II. Thus, the first three papers are concerned with ways in which welfare can be maximized when trade restrictions and exchange control must be accepted as givens. The first paper, "On Making the Best of Balance-of-Payments Restrictions," focusses upon ways in which one could approach optimality given that some currencies are "stronger" than others, and that quantitative restrictions must therefore result. As an early attempt to deal with a "second-best" problem, the paper is of considerable interest. The second paper--"The Optimal Tariff from an International Standpoint"--concerns the ways in which poor countries could use their monopoly power in trade to enhance international welfare if the world welfare function attaches greater weights to improvements in real income in poor countries than in rich. Despite the fact that the developing countries generally impose duties upon imports, in which their monopoly power is probably zero, rather than taxing exports where some monopoly power does exist, the result is of some theoretical importance. The final paper of the first section, published in 1956, focusses upon estimating the real income loss associated with trade restrictions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Addresses and State Papers of James Stephen Hogg," edited by Robert C. Cotner.

Reviews the book 'Costumes From Crepe Paper,' by Marie-Blanche Pointillart.

The article reviews the book "The Paper Economy," by David T. Bazelon.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'The Radical Papers,' edited by Irving Howe.

Reviews several books related to feminism. "The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir," edited by Alice S. Rossi; "Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity," by Kathryn Kish Sklar; "Women in Prison," by Kathryn Watterson; "American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Adams," by Allen F. Davis.

Reviews the book "Paper Electrophoresis: Ciba Foundation Symposium," by G. E. W. Wolstenholme and Elaine C. P. Miller.

Reviews the book 'The Commercial Paper Market,' by Nevins D. Baxter.

Reviews the book "The Papers of Adlai Stevenson: Beginnings of Education, 1900-1941," edited by Walter Johnson and Carol Evans.

Reviews the book "A Soldier Speaks: Public Papers and Speeches of Douglas McArthur."

Reviews the book "The Papers of Andrew Melmoth," by Hugh Sykes Davies.

Reviews the book "The Legal Conscience: Selected Papers of Felix S. Cohen," edited by Lucy Kramer Cohen.

Reviews the book "Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis 1938-1941," by David S. Wyman.

Reviews the book "The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant Volume 1, 1837-1861," edited by John Y. Simon.

Reviews the book "The Papers of Woodrow Wilson -- 1856-1880," vol. 1, edited by Arthur S. Link and others.

The article reviews the book "The Penkovskiy Papers," by Oleg Penkovskiy.

This book about less-developed regions, is a supplementary volume to the Journal of Industrial Economics. It is edited by Professor Thomas Wilson. The nine papers, by ten authors, range widely. Mr.R.Garnsey records the experience of Courtaulds in a viscose filament factory established in 1950 in Northern Ireland. Three papers are devoted to regional problems and policies. One, by Mr.G. Humphrys, deals with South Wales; a second, by Mr.P.J.Bowden, is concerned with the North East of England; and the third, by Professor W.J.L. Ryan and Mr.M.O'Donoghue, is devoted to the Republic of Ireland. There follow two comparative studies--one of regional planning in France by Mr.M.C.MacLennan, and the other of planning in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada by Dr.A.C.Parks. The three remaining papers discuss matters which are both relevant and important for regional planning in the United Kingdom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Information Systems for Regional Development-A Seminar, General Papers," edited by Torsten Hagerstrand and Antoni R. Kuklinski.

Reviews the book "Papers in Economic Prehistory," edited by E.S. Higgs.

Reviews the book "Alternatives to Paper and Pencil Testing: Proceedings of a Conference," by William C. Byham and Donna Bobin.

Reviews the book "The Commercial Paper Market," by Roy A. Foulke.

Reviews the nonfiction book 'The Papers of Henry Clay,' edited by James F. Hopkins and Mary M. W. Hargreaves.

The article reviews the book "Creative Paper Crafts in Color," by Chester Jay Alkema.

The article reviews the book "Play With Paper," by Thea Bank-Jensen.

Reviews the book "A Breviate of Parliamentary Papers 1917-1939," by P. Ford and G. Ford.

Reviews the book "Statistical Papers of George Udny Yule," edited by Alan Stuart and Maurice G. Kendall.

Reviews the book "Time Series Analysis Papers," by Emanuel Parzen.

Reviews the book "A Selection of Early Statistical Papers of J. Neyman."

Reviews the book "Selected Papers of E.S. Pearson."