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The article reviews the book "Trends and Cycles in the Commercial Paper Market," by Richard T. Selden.

The article presents a review of the book "Financial Markets and Corporate Finance: Selected Papers of Michael J. Brennan."

The article reviews the book "The Commercial Paper Market," by Nevins D. Baxter.

The article reviews the book "For Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors: The Chinese Tradition of Paper Offerings," by Janet Scott Lee.

In focusing upon the band/crawl proposals, The Burgenstock Papers makes a serious and important contribution to discussions of changing the international monetary system. The only viable alternative to a widened band and crawl (assuming flexible rates will not be adopted) is probably to have fixed exchange rates within major currency areas and flexible rates between them. Under this proposal, the Common Market countries would probably have fixed exchange rates between themselves, but a floating rate versus the dollar. There might also be a pound-based group, a yen-based group, and so on. Each country could then decide for itself whether to float its rate, or to which currency group to tie its rate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a review of the book "Value, Capital and Growth: Papers in Honour of Sir John Hicks," edited by J.N. Wolfe.

Reviews books on statistics by David Lewis. 'Papers in Philosophical Logic'; 'Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology'; 'Papers in Ethics and Social Theory.'

The article presents a review of the book "The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson," vol. 3, edited by Robert C. Merton.

This collection of papers results from a conference on Research in Income and Wealth, under the auspices of the National Bureau of Economic Research, held at the University of Pennsylvania in 1967. The primary concern lies with the measurement and explanation of differences in the wealth and incomes of various entities. The definitions and procedures are unique and suggest the rather diverse framework that must accompany such an undertaking. The first two papers are devoted to the distribution of wealth, and the remaining four pertain for the most part to income. Comments are offered on each paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Inside the Pentagon Papers," edited by John Prados and Margaret Pratt Porter.

Reviews the book 'Linus Pauling Selected Scientific Papers,' edited by Barclay Kamb, Linda Pauling Kamb, Peter Jeffress Pauling, Alexander Kamb and Linus Pauling Jr.

The article presents a review of the book "The Economics of Executive Compensation," by Kevin F. Hallock and Kevin J. Murphy.

The papers in this compendium are arranged under five topical headings: program appraisal and management, manpower and education, income maintenance, health, and housing and the "quality of man's environment." The last phrase is a synonym for air and water pollution. With that addendum, the topical headings accurately convey the scope of the two volumes. As they suggest, the scope is extremely wide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "T. R. Malthus: The Unpublished Papers in the Collection of Kanto Gakuen University," volume 1, edited by John Pullen and Trevor Hughes Parry.

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

Reviews the book "Bridge Hall Mills: Three Centuries of Paper and Cellulose Film Manufacture," by Martin Tillmanns.

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

Reviews the book "The Paper Industry in Scotland, 1590-1861," by Alistair G. Thomson.

Reviews two books on Canadian rural history. 'Canadian Papers in Rural History,' volume 1, edited by Donald H. Akenson; 'Canadian Papers in Rural History,' volume 2, edited by Donald H. Akenson.

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.

The article reviews the book "Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers, Volume 4," by Richard Rorty.

The article reviews the book "Structural Change in the Transportation and Communications in the Knowledge Society," edited by Kiyoshi Kobayashi, T. R. Lakshmanan and William P. Anderson.

A review of the book "Lexical Processing in Second Language Learners: Papers and Perspectives in Honour of Paul Meara," edited by Tess Fitzpatrick and Andy Barfield is presented.

The article reviews the book "The Science of Bradley Efron: Selected Papers," edited by Carl N. Morris and Robert Tibshirani.

The article reviews the book "Handbook on Book Paper and the Environment," by the Association of American Publishers.

The article reviews the book "Corpora in the Foreign Language Classroom: Selected Papers From the Sixth International Conference on Teaching and Language Corpora," edited by Encarnación Hidalgo, Luis Quereda and Juan Santana.

The article reviews two books including "How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific Paper," by Björn Gustavii and "Successful Scientific Writing: A Step-by-step Guide for the Biological and Medical Sciences," by Janice R. Matthews and Robert W. Matthews.

The article reviews the book "For Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors: The Chinese Tradition of Paper Offerings," by Janet Lee Scott.

The article reviews the book "Uncovering Southeast Asia's Past: Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists," edited by Elisabeth A. Bacus, Ian C. Glover, and Vincent C. Pigott.

Reviews the book 'Tropical Ecology Benchmark Papers in Ecology,' edited by Carl F. Jordan.

The article reviews the book "Engaged Anthropology: Research Essays on North American Archaeology, Ethnobotany, and Museology, Papers in Honor of Richard I. Ford," edited by Michelle Hegmon and B. Sunday Eiselt.

The article reviews the book "Commons & Borderlands: Working Papers on Interdisciplinarity, Accountability and the Flow of Knowledge," by Marilyn Strathern.

Reviews the book "A Pacific Odyssey: Archaeology and Anthropology in the Western Pacific: Papers in Honour of Jim Specht," edited by Val Attenbrow and Richard Fullager.

Reviews the book "Foundations of Biogeography: Classic Papers With Commentaries," edited by Mark V. Lomolino, Dov F. Sax, and James H. Brown.

Reviews the book "Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana: The Encounter Between the LoDagaa and the 'World on Paper,'" by Sean Hawkins.

Reviews the book "Fairness and Validation in Language Assessment: Selected Papers from the 19th Language Testing Research Colloquium, Orlando, Florida," edited by Antony J. Kunnan.

This book consists of the papers presented at a conference held in July, 1972, organized by Robert Aliber on behalf of the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. It contains an introduction by Aliber, which is largely an explanation of the rationale behind the organization of the conference ("national interdependency and international consistency" in international monetary affairs), 16 formal papers, a summary of the discussion and some concluding observations by Harry Johnson. The topics covered are organized under five headings: Models of Monetary Interdependence; Investor Expectations and Monetary Interdependence; Euro-dollars and Euro-money; Monetary Independence and Sterilization; Monetary Interdependence and the International System. The book is a useful addition to the literature. Taken collectively, the papers provide us with a benchmark for evaluating the state of the art (unsatisfactory) and an enumeration of theoretical and empirical problems. With its broad coverage of topics and different levels of analytical rigor, it will prove helpful to a variety of students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]

The article reviews the book "The Paper Garden: An Artist (Begins Her Life's Work) at 72," by Molly Peacock.

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

The article reviews the book "The Warming Papers: The Scientific Foundation for the Climate Change Forecast," edited by David Archer and Raymond Pierrehumbert.