Book Reviews

Book Reviews

2009

Geoff Cockfield, Ann Firth and John Laurent’s (eds.) New Perspectives on Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Australian Journal of Political Science, December 2009, 44:4, pp. 763-766.

2009

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2008.11.007

Douglass North’s Understanding the Process of Economic Change. Journal of Socio-Economics, 2009.

2007

Samuel Bowles’s Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions and Evolution. Biological Theory: Integrating Development, Evolution, and Cognition, Winter 2007, 2:1, pp. 90-92

1998

Gary S. Becker's Accounting for Tastes. Journal of Socio-Economics, April 1998, 27:2, pp. 293-298.

1997

N.J. Smelser and R. Swedberg's (eds.) The Handbook of Economic Sociology. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, June 1997, 153:2, pp. 425-427.

1996

Jack J. Vromen's Economic Evolution: An Inquiry into the Foundations of `New Institutional Economics'. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, July 1996, 30:1, pp. 138-141.

1996

Timur Kuran's Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification. Southern Economic Journal, July 1996, 63:1, pp. 269-270.

1996

Geoffrey M. Hodgson's (ed.) The Economics of Institutions. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, June 1996, 152:2, pp. 424-426.

1996

Young Back Choi's Paradigms and Conventions: Uncertainty, Decision Making, and Entrepreneurship. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, February 1996, 6:1, pp. 119-120.

1995

Oliver E. Williamson and Sidney G. Winter's (eds.) The Nature of the Firm: Origins, Evolution, and Development. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, August 1995, 27:3, pp. 500-505.

1995

Matthias Ruth's Integrating Economics, Ecology and Thermodynamics. American Scientist, January-February 1995, 83, pp. 96-97.

1994

Ulrich Witt's (ed.) Explaining Process and Change: Approaches to Evolutionary Economics. History of Economics Review, Summer 1994, no. 22, pp. 114-116.

1994

Alfred I. Tauber's (ed.) Organism and the Origins of Self. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 1994, 16:2, pp. 390-392.

1994

Francisco J. Varela and Jean-Pieree Dupuy's (eds.) Understanding Origins: Contemporary Views on the Origin of Life, Mind and Society. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 1994, 16:2, pp. 377-379.

1994

Rick Tilman's Thorstein Veblen and His Critics, 1891-1963: Conservative, Liberal, and Radical Perspectives. Journal of Economic Literature, March 1994, 32:1, pp. 127-128.

1993

Thrainn Eggertsson's Economic Behavior and Institutions. International Review of Economics and Finance, 1993, 2:4, pp. 429-432.

1993

Douglass C. North's Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, August 1993, 3:3, pp. 250-253.

1993

Roy Weintraub's Stabilizing Dynamics: Constructing Economic Knowledge. Eastern Economic Journal, Winter 1993, 19:1, pp. 123-125.

1992

Paul Krugman's Geography and Trade. Southern Economic Journal, October 1992, 59:2, pp. 337-339.

1992

Paul R. Lawrence and Charalambos A. Vlachoutsicos's (eds.) Behind the Factory Walls: Decision Making in Soviet and US Enterprises. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, March 1992, 17:2, pp. 296-299.

1991

Nicholas Rowe's Rules and Institutions. Southern Economic Journal, January 1991, 57:3, pp. 872-874.

1990

David Levine's Needs, Rights, and the Market. Review of Radical Political Economics, Summer/Fall 1990, 22:2/3, pp. 291-293.

1989

B.J. Hiley and F. David Peat's (eds.) Quantum Implications: Essays in Honour of David Bohm. Journal of Social and Biological Structures, October 1989, 12:4, pp. 391-395.

1989

Bruce H. Weber, David J. Depew, and James D. Smith's (eds.) Entropy, Information, and Evolution: New Perspectives on Physical and Biological Evolution. Journal of Social and Biological Structures, October 1989, 12:4, pp. 389-391.

1989

Donald Herbert Ford's Humans as Self-Constructing Living Systems: A Developmental Perspective on Behavior and Personality. Journal of Social and Biological Structures, October 1989, 12:4, pp. 387-389.

1989

P.W. Anderson, K.J. Arrow, and D. Pines's (eds.) The Economy as an Evolving Complex System. Southern Economic Journal, July 1989, 56:1, pp. 266-268.

1989

M. Faber, H. Niemes, and G. Stephan's Entropy, Environment and Resources: An Essay in Physico-Economics. Journal of Economic Literature, June 1989, 27:2, pp. 647-649.

1989

Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Empire: 1975-1914. Review of Social Economy, Spring 1989, 47:1, pp. 91-93.

1989

Diego Gambetta's (ed.) Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations. Review of Political Economy, April 1989, 1:1, pp. 114-116.

1989

Giovanni Dosi, Christopher Freeman, Richard Nelson, Gerald Silverberg, and Luc Soete's (eds.) Technical Change and Economic Theory. Southern Economic Journal, April 1989, 55:4, pp. 1070-71.

1989

Harvey Leibenstein's Inside the Firm: The Inefficiencies of Hierarchy. Journal of Economic Issues, March 1989, 23:1, pp. 297-300.

1988

Marc Maurice, Francois Sellier, and Jean-Jacques Silvestre's The Social Foundations of Industrial Power: A Comparison of France and Germany. Review of Social Economy, April 1988, 46:1, pp. 86-89.

1988

R.D. Collison Black's (ed.) Ideas in Economics. Southern Economic Journal, April 1988, 54:4, pp. 1062-1063.

1987

Anthony Wright's Socialisms: Theories and Practices. Review of Radical Political Economics, Winter 1987, 19:4, pp. 109-111.

1987

Karel Englis's An Essay on Economic Systems: A Teleological Approach. Review of Radical Political Economics, Fall 1987, 19:3, pp. 98-100.

1986

Thomas Sowell's Marxism: Philosophy and Economics. History of Political Economy, Fall 1986, 18:3, pp. 541-543.