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Reviews the book "The Matching Law: Papers in Psychology and Economics," by Richard Herrnstein.

Reviews the book 'Six Papers on the Size Distribution of Wealth and Income,' edited by L. Soltow.

Reviews the book "Idealization VI: Idealization in Economics," edited by B. Hamminga and N. B. De Marchi.

The article reviews the book "Political Economy: Institutions, Competition and Representation," edited by William A. Barnett, Melvin J. Hinich and Norman J. Schofield .

Reviews the book "Inequalities: Theory, Experiments and Applications," edited by Patrick Moyes, Christian Seidl and Tony Shorrocks.

Reviews the book "Managing the Service Economy, Prospects and Problems," edited by R. P. Inman.

Reviews the book 'Market Integration, Regionalism and the Global Economy,' edited by Richard E. Baldwin, Daniel Cohen, Andre Sapir and Anthony Venables.

Reviews the book "Money, Capital Mobility, and Trade: Essays in Honor of Robert A. Mundell," edited by G.A. Calvo, R. Dornbusch and M. Obstfeld.

Reviews the book 'Options: Recent Advances in Theory and Practice,' edited by Stewart Hodges.

Reviews the book "Models of Economic Dynamics," edited by H. F. Sonnenschein.

Reviews the book "Economics of Wage Determination," edited by Heinz König.

The article reviews the book "Adam Smith 1776-1976: 200 Years Since the Wealth of Nations," edited by T. J. Kastelein .

Reviews the book 'Strategy and Choice,' by Richard J. Zeckhauser.

Reviews the book "Transaction Cost Economics: Recent Developments," edited by Claude Menard.

Reviews the book 'The Rational Expectations Equilibrium Inventory Model: Theory and Applications,' edited by Tryphon Kollintzas.

The article reviews the book "Essays on Economic Decisions Under Uncertainty," by Jacques H. Drèze.

Reviews the book "Input-Output Modeling," edited by I. Tchijov and Lucja Tomaszewicz.

The article reviews the book "Political economy, growth, and business cycles," edited by Alex Cukierman, Zvi Hercowitz, and Leonardo Leiderman.

Reviews the book "On Money, Interest and Rates of Exchange," edited by P. A. Geljon, C. de Pee, H. Visser and H. H. van Wijk.

Reviews the book "OECD Economic Studies 7."

Reviews the book "Essays in Contemporary Fields of Economics,"edited by George Horwich and James P. Quirk.

Reviews the book "Reshaping the World Economic Order," edited by H. Giersch.

Reviews the book 'Bruins' Berlijnse besprekingen. Een selectie uit het archief van prof. mr. dr. G.W.J. Bruins, in het bijzonder de jaren 1924-1930,' by T.T.H.M. Houwink.

The article reviews the book "Beyond Adjustment: The Asian Experience," edited by Paul Streeten.

Reviews the book "Models of Economic Dynamics," edited by Hugo F. Sonnenschein.

Reviews the book 'Evolutionary Games and Equilibrium Selection,' by L. Samuelson.

Reviews the book 'Cournot Oligopoly: Characterization and Applications,' edited by Andrew F. Daughety.

Reviews the book "Readings in the Economics of Contract Law," edited by V. P. Goldberg.

Reviews the book "On the Measurement of Factor Productivities, Theoretical Problems and Empirical Results," edited by F. L. Altmann, O. Kyn and H. J. Wagener.

Reviews the book "Pacific Dynamism and the International Economic System," edited by C. Fred Bergsten and Marcus Noland.

Reviews the book 'Truth Versus Precision in Economics,' by Thomas Mayer.

Reviews the book "Neoclassical Political Economy: The Analysis of Rent-Seeking and DUP Activities," edited by David C. Colander.

Reviews the book "Public Enterprise Economics," by D. Bös.

The article reviews the book "Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy," edited by Paul J. Zak.

A book review of "An Introduction to the Structural Econometrics of Auction Data" by Harry J. Paarsch and Jay H. Hong is presented.

The article reviews the book "Economics in the Shadows of Darwin and Marx. Essays on Institutional and Evolutionary Themes," by Geoffrey M. Hodgson.

Reviews the book 'Fragmentation: New Production Patterns in the World Economy,' edited by Sven Arndt and Henryk Kierzkowski.

This essay reviews Epstein, Landes, and Posner's The Behavior of Federal Judges: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice. Their book systematically asks how the role of ideology varies across the tiers of the federal judicial hierarchy. A major finding is that the impact of ideology increases from the bottom to the top of the judicial hierarchy. Their typical methodology formulates an ex ante measure of judicial ideology such as the political party of the appointing president, and demonstrates that this measure correlates with later judicial behavior, often voting on case dispositions. Along the way, they investigate a multitude of topics, including some quite under-explored ones. We argue that ELP's theory is only weakly connected to their empirical practice, for the latter focuses on the role of ideology in judging while the former says almost nothing about that relationship. In fact, though, their empirical practice does embed a theory of law and ideology, but one quite different from that suggested by the book's rhetoric. In the penultimate section of the essay, we explore this disconnection between ELP's theory, practice, and interpretation. Its origin (we argue) lies in an extremely thin conceptualization of law. We conclude with the issue posed in ELP's final chapter, 'The Way Forward,' but suggest a rather different path. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "25 Years of Economic Theory: Retrospect and Prospect," edited by T. J. Kastelein, S. K. Kuipers, W. A. Nijenhuis and G. R. Wagenaar.

Reviews the book "Sustainability and Policy: Limits to Economics," by M. Common.

The article reviews the book "Energy, Regional Science and Public Policy," edited by M. Chatterji and P. Van Rompuy.

Reviews the book "Nonparametric Comparative Statics and Stability," by D. Hale, G. Lady, J. Maybee and J. Quirk.

Reviews the book "The Core of Economies With Asymmetric Information," by U. Schwalbe.

Reviews the book "OECD Economic Studies, No. 6."

Reviews the book "Rationing in a Theory of the Banking Firm, Studies in Contemporary Economics," by Timothy M. Devinney.

Reviews the book "Keynes and the Modern World," edited by David Worswick and James Trevithick.

Reviews the book 'Plan and Market, Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe,' edited by Morris Bornstein.