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Volume 16 - December 1956

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The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo: Biographical Miscellany, Volume X. Edited by Piero Sraffa with the collaboration of M. H. Dobb. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1955. Pp. x, 424. $4.75.

Great Enterprise: Growth and Behavior of the Big Corporation. By Herrymon Maurer. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955. Pp. x, 303. $5.00.

The Business Enterprise as a Subject for Research. By Howard R. Bowen. Prepared for the Committee on Business Enterprise Research. New York: Social Science Research Council, Pamphlet No. II, 1955. Pp. viii, 103. $1.25

Commerce and Trade - American Imports. By Don D. Humphrey. (A study jointly sponsored by the Twentieth Century Fund and the National Planning Association, with a policy statement by the Association's Committee on International Policy.) New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1955. Pp. xviii, 546. $6.00.

A History of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company. By Gerald T. White. (Harvard Studies in Business History.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1955. Pp. xvii, 229. $5.00.

Marginal—Cost Price—Output Control. By Burnham P. Beckwith. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. Pp. 283. $5.75.

A History of the Cutlery Industry in the Connecticut Valley. By Martha Van Hoesen Taber. (Smith College Studies in History, Vol. XLI.) Northampton, Mass.: Dept. of History, Smith College, 1955. Pp. vi, 136. $2.00.

Early Colonial Trade and Navigation Between Mexico and Peru. By Woodrow Borah. (Publications in Ibero-Americana, No. 38.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1954. Pp. 170. $2.50.

Henry George. By Charles Albro Barker. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955. Pp. xii, 696. $9.50.

Labor and Population - Labor Mobility and Economic Opportunity. By E. Wight Bakke, Philip M. Hauser, Gladys L. Palmer, Charles A. Myers, Dale Yoder, Clark Kerr. Preface by Paul Webbink. New York: Technology Press and John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1954. Pp. vi, 118. $3.50.

Medieval Trade in the Mediterranean World: Illustrative Documents. Translated with introductions and notes by Robert S. Lopez and Irving W. Raymond. (Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies, Austin P. Evans, editor, Vol. LII.) New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. Pp. xi, 458. $6.75.

La naissance de la grande Industrie en Dauphiné (fin du XVIIe siècle-1869). By Pierre Léon. (Université de Grenoble, Publications de la Faculté des Lettres, no. 9.) Paris: Presses universitaires, 1954. 2 vols. Pp. xvii, 965 (pag. continuous).

The British Co-operative Movement. By Jack Bailey. (Hutchinson's University Library: Politics.) London: Hutchinson and Company, 1955; New York: Longmans, Green and Company. Pp. 180. Text edition, $1.80; trade edition, $2.40.

Commerce and Trade - Distribution's Place in the American Economy since 1869. By Harold Barger. (Publication of the National Bureau of Economic Research.) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955. Pp. xviii, 222. $4.50.

The Mine Workers' District 50: The Story of the Gas, Coke and Chemical Unions of Massachusetts and Their Growth into a National Union. By James Nelson. New York: Exposition Press, 1955. Pp. 158. $3.50. Special union edition $2.75.

Naissance et croissance d'un port: Sète de 1666 à 1880. By Louis Dermigny. (Actes de l'Institut d'Etudes économiques, maritimes et commerciales de la Ville de Sète, Cahier V.) Montpellier: Causse, Graille, Castelnau, 1955. Pp. 136. 900 francs.

Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925. By John Higham. New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1955. Pp. xiv, 431. Illustrated. $6.00.

Industry in the Pacific Northwest and the Location Theory. By Edwin J. CohnJr. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954. Pp. x, 214. $3.50.

The Muscovy Merchants of 1555. By T. S. Willan. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1953. Pp. viii, 141. $3.25.

The First Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1795–1805. By Bradford Perkins. (Publication of the American Historical Association, from the Income of the Albert J. Beveridge Memorial Fund.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1955. Pp. xii, 257. $5.00.

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