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Reviews the book 'Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 3, Individual Choice Under Certainty' and 'Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 4, The Economics of Information,' by K.J. Arrow.

Reviews the book "Collected Economic Papers," vol. 2, by Joan Robinson.

Reviews the book "The Common Sense of Political Economy. Selected Papers and Reviews on Economic Theory," edited by Lionel Robbins.

Reviews the book "Papers on Gold and the Price level," by J. Stamp.

The article reviews the book "Contemporary Issues in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications," edited by Ralf Becker and Stan Hurn.

Reviews the book "The Economics of Property-Casualty Insurance," edited by David F. Bradford.

Reviews the book "Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought: Method, Competition, Conflict and Measurement in the Twentieth Century. Selected Papers From the History of Economics Society Conference, 1992," vol. 10, edited by Karen I. Vaughn.

Reviews the books "Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons: Correspondence 1863-1872," Volume III, "Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons: Correspondence 1873-1878," Volume IV, and "Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons: Correspondence 1879-1882," Volume V, edited by R. D. Collison Black.

Reviews the book 'International Economic Papers,' No. 6, edited by Alan T. Peacock, Ralph Turvey, Wolfgang Stolper and Elizabeth Henderson.

Reviews the book 'Karl Menger. Ergebnisse eines Mathematischen Kolloquiums,' edited by Egbert Dierker and Karl Sigmund.

The article reviews the book "The Economics of Regional Clusters: Networks, Technology and Policy," edited by Uwe Blien and Gunther Maier.

A review is presented of the book "The Economics and Politics of Accounting. International Perspectives on Research Trends, Policy and Practice," by Christian Leuz, Dieter Pfaff and Anthony Hopwood.

Reviews the book "Frontiers of Quantitative Economics," vol. II, edited by M. D. Intriligator and D. A. Kendrick.

Reviews the book "John von Neumann and Modern Economics," edited by Mohammed Dore, Sukhamoy Chakravarty, and Richard Goodwin.

Reviews the book "Kenneth E. Boulding: Collected Papers: Toward a General Social Science," Vol. IV, edited by L. D. Singell.

The article reviews the book "Alfred Schutz: Collected Papers," by Alfred Schutz.

Reviews the book "Mobilizing Domestic Resources for Capital Formation in Ghana: The Role of Informal Financial Sectors," by Ernest Aryeetey and Fritz Gockel.

The article reviews the book "Italian economic papers," vol. 1, edited by Luigi Pasinetti.

The article reviews the book "Economic Doctrine and Method: Selected Papers of R. W. Clower," by Robert W. Clower.

Reviews the book "Papers and Proceedings of the First arid Second Annual Meeting of the Catholic Economic Association."

Reviews the book "The Overeducated Worker? The Economics of Skill Utilization," edited by Lex Borghans and Andries de Grip.

Stephen LeRoy of the University of California, Santa Barbara reviews 'Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics', by Hsiang-Ke Chao, Szu-Ting Chen, and Roberta L. Millstein. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: 'Eleven papers, resulting from conferences held by Taiwan's National Science Council in 2008 and 2011, explore mechanism and causality in biology and economics. Papers discuss mechanisms versus causes in biology and medicine (Lindley Darden); identity, structure, and causal representation in scientific models (Kevin D. Hoover); the regrettable loss of mathematical molding in econometrics (Marcel Boumans); models of mechanisms--the case of the replicator dynamics (Till Grüne-Yanoff); experimental discovery, data models, and mechanisms in biology--an example from Gregor Mendel's work (Ruey-Lin Chen); mechanisms and laws--clarifying the debate (Carl F. Craver and Marie I. Kaiser); natural selection and causal productivity (Roberta L. Millstein); is natural selection a population-level causal process? (Rong-Lin Wang); mechanisms and extrapolation in the abortion-crime controversy (Daniel Steel); causality, impartiality, and evidence-based policy (David Teira and Julian Reiss); and explaining the explanations of one hundred million missing women (Hsiang-Ke Chao and Szu-Ting Chen). Chao is with the Department of Economics at the National Tsing Hua University. Chen is with the Graduate Institute of Philosophy at the National Tsing Hua University. Millstein is with the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis.' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Collected Economic Papers," vol 5, by Joan Robinson.

Reviews the book "The Rise and Fall of Economic Justice and Other Papers," by C.B. MacPherson. 0192153609

Reviews the book "Selected Papers in Logic and Foundations, Didactics, Economics," vol. 10, "Vienna Circle Collection," by Karl Menger.

The article reviews the book "Paper Money," by Adam Smith.

Reviews the book 'Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 2, General Equilibrium,' by K.J. Arrow.

Reviews the book 'Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume I, Social Choice and Justice,' by K.J. Arrow.

Reviews the book "Radical Political Economy: Explorations in Alternative Economic Analysis," by Victor D. Lippit.

Reviews several books about economics. "The Inflation-Targeting Debate," edited by Ben S. Bernanke and Michael Woodford; "Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century," edited by Richard B. Freeman, Joni Hersch, and Lawrence Mishel; "Innovation Policy and the Economy," volume 5, edited by Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern.

Reviews the book 'Papers on Welfare and Growth,' by Tiber Scitovsky.

Reviews the book 'Organization of Debt Into Currency and Other Papers,' by Charles Holt Carroll and edited by Edward C. Simmons.

Reviews the book "Czechoslovak Economic Papers."

Reviews the book "Financial Mobilization for War. Papers Presented at a Joint Conference of the Western Economic Society and the City Club of Chicago, June 21 and 22, 1917.

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 'Antitrust Economics,' by Oliver E. Williamson.

Reviews the book, "Comparisons of the United States and Soviet Economies."

Reviews the book "Shipping Economics," by S. G. Sturmey.

Reviews the book `American Domestic Priorities: An Economic Appraisal,' edited by John M. Quigley and Daniel Rubinfeld.

The article reviews the book "Social Choice, Welfare and Ethics: Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium in Economic Theory and Econometrics," edited by William A. Barnett, Hervé Moulin, and Maurice Salles.

Editor's Note: Guidelines for Selecting Books to Review Occasionally, we receive questions regarding the selection of books reviewed in the Journal of Economic Literature. A statement of our guidelines for book selection might therefore be useful. The general purpose of our book reviews is to help keep members of the American Economic Association informed of significant English-language publications in economics research. We also review significant books in related social sciences that might be of special interest to economists. On occasion, we review books that are written for the public at large if these books speak to issues that are of interest to economists. Finally, we review some reports or publications that have significant policy impact. Annotations are published for all books received. However, we receive many more books than we are able to review so choices must be made in selecting books for review. We try to identify for review scholarly, well-researched books that embody serious and original research on a particular topic. We do not review textbooks. Other things being equal, we avoid volumes of collected papers such as festschriften and conference volumes. Often such volumes pose difficult problems for the reviewer who may find herself having to describe and evaluate many different contributions. Among such volumes, we prefer those on a single, well-defined theme that a typical reviewer may develop in his review. We avoid volumes that collect previously published papers unless there is some material value added from bringing the papers together. Also, we refrain from reviewing second or revised editions unless the revisions of the original edition are really substantial. Our policy is not to accept offers to review (and unsolicited reviews of) particular books. Coauthorship of reviews is not forbidden but it is unusual and we ask our invited reviewers to discuss with us first any changes in the authorship or assigned length of a review. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Editor's Note Our policy is to annotate all English-language books on economics and related subjects that are sent to us. A very small number of foreign-language books are called to our attention and annotated by our consulting editors or others. Our staff does not monitor and order books published; therefore, if an annotation of a book does not appear six months after the publication date, please write to us or the publisher concerning the book. An Index of Authors of New Books appearing in the Annotated Listings will appear at the end of the General Index in the December issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reviews the book "Crossing the Mainstream: Ethical and Methodological Issues in Economics," edited by Amitava K. Dutt and Kenneth P. Jameson.

The article reviews the book "The global economy in the 1990s: a long run perspective," edited by Paul W. Rhode and Gianni Toniolo.