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List of figures List of tables Preface 1. Introduction Hartmut Kaelble and Mark Thomas 2. British inequality during the Industrial Revolution: accounting for the Kuznets curve Jeffrey G. Williamson 3. Wage differentials in Sweden, 1725-1950 Johan Soederberg 4. Industrial wage differentials in nineteenth-century Belgium Peter Scholliers 5. Income inequality and industrialization in Germany, 1850-1913: the Kuznets hypothesis re-examined Rolf Dumke 6. The evolution of inequality in Australia in the nineteenth century Mark Thomas 7. Gainful occupations and the inequality of pay: Vienna, 1780-1980 Michael Wagner 8. The distributional impact of the depression in the United States Ian W. McLean 9. Toward a comparative history of income and wealth inequality Peter H. Lindert References Index.

(1982). Economic Thought and Social Change. Journal of Economic Issues: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 319-324.

In an earlier article I tried to elucidate the rise in the English price level during the first half of the sixteenth century.1 The present article deals with the extension of this rise from the time when the coinage was reformed, near the middle of the sixteenth century, until it came to an end during the second quarter of the seventeenth century. Beginning with the apparently most obvious explanation, namely the relative depreciation of the value of money, a causal connexion between the influx of American silver into Europe and the rise in the English price level can be assumed from the following table.

The 'Fighters for the Freedom of Israel', commonly known as the 'Stern Gang,' was one of three Jewish paramilitary organisations operating in Palestine during the years between World War II and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The common origin of all three organisations; 'Haganah', 'Irgun', and the 'Stern Gang,' was the Jewish Defense Organization (Haganah) which was created during the Arab disturbances in 1929. When another Arab uprising against the British Mandatory Government in Palestine began in 1936, the right wing of the Jewish Defence Organisation disagreed with the general policy of mere defence laid down by the Jewish Agency.1 In April 1937 it demanded retaliation against the Arab community whenever Jewish settlements were attacked by Arab marauders. As the Arab uprising, which had initially been an anti-British movement, became increasingly anti-Jewish, the right wing of the Jewish Defence Organisation started to carry out such retaliation. This wing, under its separate command, then became known by the name 'The National Military Organisation in the Land of Israel' (Irgu , Zvei Leumi be Erez Israel, or simply the 'Irgun'). l While the Haganah remained the military force at the disposal of the Jewish Agency, the Irgun kept a close liaison with the right wing the Revisionist Party, led from Europe by V. Jabotinsky -of the world Zionist Organisation. Direct command over the Irgun was divided between the military head, David Raziel, and the political head, Abraham Stern. Even before the beginning of WA'orld War II, differences of opinion had already arisen between

This engaging and intelligent book argues that the unbridled impact of deregulated market forces will lead to social polarization and ultimately to the destruction of capitalist society as we know it today. After providing a lucid and accessible overview of the development of capitalism, Professor Brenner explains how human greed was confined within legal boundaries and shows how ingenuity rather than brute force ultimately became the source of wealth. He explores the interaction between ideas, behaviour and economic change and points out comparisons between scientific ideas and the phases of economic development. He warns that, by an inner logic, deregulated capitalism must necessarily lead to increased inequality and to the waning of those elements in bourgeois culture which are necessary for the proper functioning of a technologically advanced industrial economy.