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Volume 66 - Winter 1992

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The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure. ByJuliet B. Schor · New York: Basic Books, 1992. xiii + 247 pp. Charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $21.00. ISBN 0-465-05433-1.

Predators and Prizes: American Privateering and Imperial Warfare, 1739–1748. ByCarl E. Swanson · Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. xviii + 299 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-87249-720-8.

Antitrust and the Triumph of Economics: Institutions, Expertise and Policy Change. ByMarc Allen Eisner · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xii + 302 pp. Charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $34.95. ISBN 0-8078-1955-7.

Close Ties: Railways, Government, and the Board of Railway Commissioners, 1851–1933. ByKen Cruikshank · Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991. xvi + 287 pp. Maps, graphs, tables, appendixes, notes, and bibliography. $44.95. ISBN 0-7735-0854-6.

Visionary Capitalism: Financial Markets and the American Dream in the Twentieth Century. ByCharles R. Geisst · New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990. x + 191 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $42.95. ISBN 0-275-93283-4.

Piero Sraffa—Unorthodox Economist (1898–1983): A Biographical Essay. ByJean-Pierre Potier · New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1991. x + 109 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $32.50. ISBN 0-415-05959-3.

The Revolution in U.S. Finance. ByRobert E. Litan · Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1991. viii + 55 pp. Tables, charts, and notes. Paper, $6.95. ISBN 0-8157-5279-2.

Latin America's Economy: Diversity, Trends, and Conflicts. ByEliana Cardoso and Ann Helwege · Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992. xxiii + 326 pp. Tables, charts, appendixes, notes, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-262-03186-8.

What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History. ByWalter G. Vincenti · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990, viii + 326 pp. Charts, illustrations, tables, notes, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-8018-3974-2.

Geopolitics and Geoculture: Essays on the Changing World-System. ByImmanuel Wallerstein · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. vii + 242 pp. Notes and index. Cloth, $39.50, ISBN 0-521-40454-1; paper, $13.95, ISBN 0-521-40604-8.

The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. ByJoel Mokyr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. ix + 349 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-19-506113-6.

International Technology Transfer: Europe, Japan and the USA, 1700–1914. Edited byDavid J. Jeremy · Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1991. v + 253 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $68.95. ISBN 1-85278-317-6.

Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919–1939. ByBarry Eichengreen · New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. xix + 448 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.00. ISBN 0-19-5064313-3.

Europe, America, and the Wider World: Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism. ByWilliam N. Parker · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. vii + 372 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.50. ISBN 0-521-25466-3.

Space Commerce. ByJohn L. McLucas · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991. x + 241 pp. Maps, illustrations, source notes, abbreviations, and index. $24.95. ISBN 0-674-83020-2.

Before the Luddites: Custom, Community and Machinery in the English Woollen Industry, 1776–1809. ByAdrian Randall · New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xvii + 318 pp. Maps, charts, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $59.50. ISBN 0-521-39042-7.

Commitment: The Dynamic of Strategy. ByPankaj Ghemawat · New York: The Free Press, 1991. vii + 178 pp. Notes, tables, graphs, bibliography, and index. $29.95. ISBN 0-02-911575-2.

The Breakthrough Illusion: Corporate America's Failure to Move from Innovation to Mass Production. ByRichard Florida and Martin Kenney. New York: Basic Books, 1990. x + 262 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and index. $19.95. ISBN 0-465-00749-X.

International Competition and Strategic Response in the Textile Industries since 1870. Edited byMary B. Rose · London: Frank Cass, 1991. 194 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $32.00. ISBN 0-7146-3412-3.

American Management and British Labor: A Comparative Study of the Cotton Spinning Industry. ByIsaac Cohen · Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1990. 250 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00. ISBN 0-313-26780-4.

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