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Reviews the book "The Nature of Economic Thought: Selected Papers, 1955-64," by G.L.S. Shackle.

Reviews the book 'Economic Structure and Performance: Essays in Honor of Hollis B. Chenery,' edited by Moshe Syrquin, Lance Taylor and Larry E. Westphal.

Reviews the book 'Equilibrium and Disequilibrium in Economic Theory," Proceedings of a Conference Organized by the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria, July 3-5, 1974,' edited by Gerhard Schwodiauer.

The article reviews the book "Occasional Papers of T. R. Malthus on Ireland, Population and Political Economy from Contemporary Journals Written Anonymously and Hitherto Uncollected," edited by Bernard Semmel.

Reviews the book 'A Retrospective on the Classical Gold Standard, 1821-1931,' edited by Michael D. Bordo and Anna J. Schwartz.

Reviews the book 'Melanges d'economie politique et sociale,' by Leon Walras.

Reviews the book 'Artists and Artisans in Delft: A Socio-Economic Study of the Seventeenth Century,' by John Michael Montias.

The article reviews the book "What's Economics Worth? Valuing Policy Research," edited by Philip G. Pardey and Vincent H. Smith.

The article reviews the book "China: New Engine of World Growth," edited by Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song.

Reviews the book 'Essays in Trespassing: Economics to Politics and Beyond,' by Albert O. Hirschman.

Reviews the book 'The World Economic Order: Past and Prospects,' edited by Sven Grassman and Erik Lundberg.

Reviews the book 'Research in Experimental Economics: A Research Annual (1979). Volume 1,' edited by Vernon L. Smith.

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

The article reviews the book "Peopled Economies: Conversations with Stephen Gudeman," edited by Steffan Löfving.

Reviews the book 'The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy,' by Kenneth Pomeranz.

The article presents a review of the book "The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas," by Robert H. Frank.

Reviews the book "The Worker and the Job: Coping with Change," edited by Jerome M. Rosow.

Reviews the book 'Structure and Change in Economic History,' by Douglass C. North.

Reviews the book 'The Politics and Philosophy of Economics: Marxians, Keynesians and Austrians,' by T.W. Hutchison.

Reviews the book 'Economic Growth, Development, and Foreign Trade,' by Pranab K. Bardhan.

The article reviews the book "The Logic of Marx's Capital Replies to Hegelian Criticisms," by Tony Smith.

Reviews the book 'The Fatal Equilibrium,' by Marshall Jevons.

Reviews the book 'Foreign Adventures of an Economist,' by Raymond F. Mikesell.

Reviews the book "Medieval Islamic Economic Thought: Filling the "Great Gap" in European Economics," edited by S.M. Ghazanfar.

Reviews the book 'Whose Reality Counts? Putting the First Last,' by Robert Chambers.

Reviews the book 'Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias,' by Peter M. Garber.

Reviews the book 'Why Ireland Starved: A Quantitative and Analytical History of the Irish Economy, 1800-1850,' by Joel Mokyr.

Reviews the book 'The Soviet Economy: Toward the Year 2000,' edited by Abram Bergson and Herbert S. Levine.

Reviews the book 'Economic Interaction in the Pacific Basin,' edited by Lawrence B. Krause and Sueo Sekiguchi.

Reviews the book 'Why the Poor Get Richer and the Rich Slow Down: Essays in the Marshallian Long Period,' by Walt W. Rostow.

Reviews the book 'Studies in Political Economy of Development,' by Ignacy Sachs.

Reviews the book 'Causality in Economics,' by John Hicks.

Reviews the book 'Productivity and the Social System--The USSR and the West,' by Abram Bergson.

Reviews the book 'The Indonesian Economy Since 1965: A Case Study of Political Economy,' by Ingrid Palmer.

Georgescu-Roegen's The Entropy Law and the Economic Process is important on three counts: as a message, as a phenomenon, as an encounter. Its greatest importance for many will be as an encounter with a mind powerful, and lucid, serieux, enormously erudite, ranging over the history and philosophy of science, epistemology, mechanics, and thermodynamics, biophysics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, econometrics, economic theory, and social policy. The book has not at all the form and organization of a scholarly monograph. It is without a systematically developed line or argument or theory, and it is not a set of separable essays. It is rather an intellectual odyssey, a kind of"as I see it," with multifaceted arguments and recurrent themes held together by the integral quality of a mind that roams the wide universe of science and policy. It is, therefore, a book whose message, whose purpose, and whose point will admit varied interpretations. For that reason let the qualifying phrase "as I understand it" be prefixed to all that follows. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "The Economics of John Stuart Mill," vol. 1, "Theory and Method," vol. 2, "Political Economy," by Samuel Hollander.

This article focuses on the recent publication of "The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics," edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman, is a notable event for economics. This publication is published in four volumes containing about 4.3 million words entirely devoted to the intricacies of the discipline. Few economists can be oblivious of the New Palgrave's existence by now, for rarely has an economic work been so sedulously promoted by its publishers or so widely noticed in newspapers and magazines. The list of its 927 contributors includes many stars of the first magnitude in the economists' firmament, and the 1,916 entries produced by these contributors range widely in both content and length, exemplifying a variety of styles and approaches. It will be the rare economist, remarkably well read or with remarkably narrow interests, who will find nothing fresh or stimulating. Other entries, especially those of a more reflective or speculative character, should stimulate fresh thought and suggest new topics for research.

Reviews the book "Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War," by Gavin Wright.

Reviews the book 'An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change,' by Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter.

Reviews the book 'The Methodology of Economics: Or How Economists Explain,' by Mark Blaug.

Reviews the book 'Regulation and Its Reform,' by Stephen Breyer.

Reviews the book 'Growth and Income Distribution: Essays in Economic Theory,' by Luigi L. Pasinetti.

The article reviews the book "The Political Economy of Global Population Change, 1950-2050," by Paul Demeny and Geoffrey McNicoll.

The article reviews the book "Global Change and East Asian Policy Initiatives," edited by Shahid Yusuf, M. Anjum Altaf, and Kaoru Nabeshima.

The article reviews the book "Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid," edited by Clark C. Gibson, Kirster Andersson, Elinor Ostrom, and Sujai Shivakumar.

Reviews the book "China's New Order: Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition," by Wang Hui, edited by Theodore Huters.

Reviews the book "The Atlantic Economy: Britain, the U.S. and Ireland," by Denis O'Hearn.

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 "Misperceptions of Economic Phenomena," by F.E. Brown and A.R. Oxenfeldt.