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Volume 44 - Issue 4 - December 1984

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Economics and World Power: An Assessment of American Diplomacy Since 1789. Edited by William H. Becker and Samuel F. Wells. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. Pp. xvi, 474. $35.00 cloth, $10.00 paper.
Mira Wilkins
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03 March 2009, pp. 1116-1117
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Proprietary Capitalism: The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800–1885. By Philip Scranton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii, 431. $34.50.
Diane Lindstrom
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03 March 2009, pp. 1117-1118
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The Rise and Decline of the American Cut Nail Industry: A Study of the Relationships of Technology, Business Organization, and Management Techniques. By Amos J. LovedayJr., Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983. Pp. xx, 160. $29.95.
Jeremy Atack
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03 March 2009, pp. 1118-1119
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North Carolina Planters and their Children, 1800–1860. By Jane Turner Censor. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. $20.00.
Gail W. O'Brien
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03 March 2009, pp. 1119-1120
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America in the Gilded Age: From the Death of Lincoln to the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. By Sean Dennis Cashman. New York: New York University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv, 370. $35.00 cloth, $13.50 paper.
Raymond M. Hyser
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03 March 2009, pp. 1120-1121
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Drastic Measures: A History of Wage and Price Controls in the United States. By Hugh Rockoff. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xi, 289. $29.95.
Lester V. Chandler
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03 March 2009, pp. 1121-1122
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Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America's Railway Age. By John Lauritz Larson. Boston: Harvard Business School, 1984. Distributed by Harvard University Press. Pp. xvii, 257. $27.50.
Robert A. McGuire
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03 March 2009, pp. 1123-1124
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The Rebirth of the Missouri Pacific, 1956–1983. By H. Craig Miner. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, Pp. xx, 236. $19.50.
William F. Huneke
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03 March 2009, pp. 1124-1125
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TVA: Fifty Years of Grass-Roots Bureaucracy. Edited by Erwin C. Hargrove and Paul K. Conkin. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1984. Pp. xvii, 345. $24.95.
Jerome K. Laurent
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Conservation Under FDR. By A. L. Riesch Owen. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1983. Pp. xvi, 268. $24.95.
Gary D. Libecap
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Big Business and Presidential Power: From FDR to Reagan. Kim McQuaid. New York: William Marrow and Company, Inc., 1982. Pp. 383. $17.50
Clair E. Morris
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Growth in the American South. By Robert J. Newman. New York: New York University Press, 1984. Pp. xviii, 227. $30.00.
H. M. Gitelman
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03 March 2009, pp. 1129-1130
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The Laws of Human Relations and the Rules of Human Action Derived Therefrom. By Hermann Heinrich Gossen. Translated by Rudolph C. Blitz with an introductory essay by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1983. Pp. 460. $47.50.
Laurence S. Moss
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The Pacific Alliance: United States Foreign Economic Policy and Japanese Trade Recovery, 1947–1955. By William S. Borden. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984, Pp. xi, 320. $25.00.
Martin Bronfenbrenner
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03 March 2009, pp. 1132-1133
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Working Class Hero: A New Strategy for Labor. By Stanley Aronowitz. New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1983. Pp. xviii, 229. $18.95.
Jordan A. Schwarz
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03 March 2009, pp. 1133-1134
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The Political Economy of U.S. Tariffs: An Empirical Analysis. By Réal P. Lavergne. Toronto, New York, London: Academic Press, 1983. Pp. ix, 210.
William R. Dougan
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03 March 2009, pp. 1134-1136
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Regulation in Perspective: Historical Essays. Edited by Thomas K. McCraw. (Essays by Morton Keller, Ellis Hawley, Samuel P. Hays, David Vogel and McCraw, with a Report by Gerald P. Berk.) Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: Harvard University, 1981. Pp. ix, 246. $14.95 cloth, $8.95 paper.
Harry N. Scheiber
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03 March 2009, pp. 1136-1138
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Atlantic Canada and Confederation: Essays in Canadian Political Economy. By David G. Alexander (compiled by Eric W. Sager, Lewis R. Fischer and Stuart O. Pierson). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. Pp. 157. $20.00 cloth, $6.00 paper.
Kenneth Norrie
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03 March 2009, pp. 1138-1139
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No Fault of Their Own: Unemployment and the Canadian Welfare State, 1914–1941. By James Struthers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. Pp. 268. $12.50 paper, $30.00 cloth.
Paul Phillips
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03 March 2009, pp. 1139-1140
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Beyond Sixty-Five: The Dilemma of Old Age in America's Past. By Carole Haber. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. ix, 181. $19.95.
Robert L. Clark
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03 March 2009, pp. 1140-1141
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Economics and World Power: An Assessment of American Diplomacy Since 1789. Edited by William H. Becker and Samuel F. Wells. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. Pp. xvi, 474. $35.00 cloth, $10.00 paper.

Proprietary Capitalism: The Textile Manufacture at Philadelphia, 1800–1885. By Philip Scranton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii, 431. $34.50.

The Rise and Decline of the American Cut Nail Industry: A Study of the Relationships of Technology, Business Organization, and Management Techniques. By Amos J. LovedayJr., Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983. Pp. xx, 160. $29.95.

North Carolina Planters and their Children, 1800–1860. By Jane Turner Censor. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. $20.00.

America in the Gilded Age: From the Death of Lincoln to the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. By Sean Dennis Cashman. New York: New York University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv, 370. $35.00 cloth, $13.50 paper.

Drastic Measures: A History of Wage and Price Controls in the United States. By Hugh Rockoff. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. xi, 289. $29.95.

Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America's Railway Age. By John Lauritz Larson. Boston: Harvard Business School, 1984. Distributed by Harvard University Press. Pp. xvii, 257. $27.50.

The Rebirth of the Missouri Pacific, 1956–1983. By H. Craig Miner. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, Pp. xx, 236. $19.50.

TVA: Fifty Years of Grass-Roots Bureaucracy. Edited by Erwin C. Hargrove and Paul K. Conkin. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1984. Pp. xvii, 345. $24.95.

Conservation Under FDR. By A. L. Riesch Owen. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1983. Pp. xvi, 268. $24.95.

Big Business and Presidential Power: From FDR to Reagan. Kim McQuaid. New York: William Marrow and Company, Inc., 1982. Pp. 383. $17.50

Growth in the American South. By Robert J. Newman. New York: New York University Press, 1984. Pp. xviii, 227. $30.00.

The Laws of Human Relations and the Rules of Human Action Derived Therefrom. By Hermann Heinrich Gossen. Translated by Rudolph C. Blitz with an introductory essay by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1983. Pp. 460. $47.50.

The Pacific Alliance: United States Foreign Economic Policy and Japanese Trade Recovery, 1947–1955. By William S. Borden. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984, Pp. xi, 320. $25.00.

Working Class Hero: A New Strategy for Labor. By Stanley Aronowitz. New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1983. Pp. xviii, 229. $18.95.

The Political Economy of U.S. Tariffs: An Empirical Analysis. By Réal P. Lavergne. Toronto, New York, London: Academic Press, 1983. Pp. ix, 210.

Regulation in Perspective: Historical Essays. Edited by Thomas K. McCraw. (Essays by Morton Keller, Ellis Hawley, Samuel P. Hays, David Vogel and McCraw, with a Report by Gerald P. Berk.) Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: Harvard University, 1981. Pp. ix, 246. $14.95 cloth, $8.95 paper.

Atlantic Canada and Confederation: Essays in Canadian Political Economy. By David G. Alexander (compiled by Eric W. Sager, Lewis R. Fischer and Stuart O. Pierson). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. Pp. 157. $20.00 cloth, $6.00 paper.

No Fault of Their Own: Unemployment and the Canadian Welfare State, 1914–1941. By James Struthers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. Pp. 268. $12.50 paper, $30.00 cloth.

Beyond Sixty-Five: The Dilemma of Old Age in America's Past. By Carole Haber. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. ix, 181. $19.95.

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