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January-February 1999

BOOKS

Brookings trade forum 1998, edited by Robert Z. Lawrence. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1998. 434p.(382 B872 1998)

Krauss, Melvyn B. How nations grow rich: the case for free trade. Oxford Univ. Press, 1997. 140p. (382.73 K91)

Labor statistics measurement issues, edited by John Haltiwanger, Marilyn Manser & Robert Topel. University of Chicago Press, for the NBER, 1998. 478p. (330.873 C748 v. 60)

Markets, information, and uncertainty: essays in economic theory in honor of Kenneth J. Arrow, edited by Graciela Chichilnisky. Cambridge University Press, 1999. 386p. (330.01 M346)

The political economy of Latin America in the postwar period, ed. by Laura Randall. Univ. of Texas Pr., 1997. 319p.(338.98 P769)

Pour-El, Marian & J. Ian Richards. Computability in analysis and physics. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1989. 206p.(511.3 P877)

Social security and retirement around the world, ed. by Jonathan Gruber & David A. Wise. Univ. of Chicago Press, for the NBER, 1999. 486p. (368.4 S677)

Solow, Robert M. Monopolistic competition and macroeconomic theory. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998. 78p.(339.2 S689) [F.Caffe Lecture]

Walstad, William B. & Phillip Saunders. Teaching undergraduate economics: a handbook for instructors. New York: Irwin/ McGraw-Hill, 1998. 368p. (371.3 W229)

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

Economic Report of the President, Feb. 1999. U.S. GPO, 1999. 454p.

Regulatory takings and proposals for change. CBO, Dec, 1998. 75p.

****New Fiction Section****

Novels written by economists or featuring economics:

Galbraith, John Kenneth. A tenured professor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.

Jevons, Marshall (pseud. of William Breit & Kenneth G. Elzinga). Economics professor Henry Spearman solves murders in 3 books: Murder at the margin. Princeton University Press, 1978. The fatal equilibrium. The MIT Press, 1985. A deadly indifference. Princeton University Press, 1995.

March 1999

BOOKS

Bernanke, Ben S., et al. Inflation targeting: lessons from the international experience. Princeton U Press, 1999. 382p. (332.41 B517)

Changes in exchange rates in rapidly developing countries: theory, practice, and policy issues, edited by Takatoshi Ito & Anne O. Krueger. Univ. of Chicago Press, for the NBER, 1999. 450p. (332.45 C456)

Cooper, Russell W. Coordination games: complementaries and macroeconomics. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999. 163p. (339.0151 C778)

Econometrics and economic theory in the 20th century: the Ragnar Frisch Centennial Symposium, edited by Steiner Strøm. Cambridge University Press, 1998. 629p. (330.0182 E18)

The economics of the Great Depression, edited by Mark Wheeler. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Inst., 1998. 211p. (330.973 E20)

Geography and ownership as bases for economic accounting, edited by Robert E. Baldwin, Robert E. Lipsey & J. David Richardson. Univ. of Chicago Press, for the NBER, 1998. 346p.(339.42 G342)

Griliches, Zvi. R & D and productivity: the econometric evidence. Univ. of Chicago Press, for the NBER, 1998. 382p. (338.06 G858)

Learning by doing in markets, firms, and countries, edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M.G. Raff & Peter Temin. Univ. of Chicago Press, for the NBER, 1999. 347p. (338.7 L438)

Maddala, G.S. & In-Moo Kim. Unit roots, cointegration, & structural change. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998. 505p.(330.0182 M178)

Sargent, Thomas J. The conquest of American inflation. Princeton University Press, 1999. 148p. (332.41 S344)

Simon, Herbert A. An empirically based microeconomics. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997. 223p. [R.Mattioli Lecture] (338.001 S594)

Solomon, Robert. Money on the move: the revolution in international finance since 1980. Princeton University Press, 1999. 210p. (332.042 S689)

Solow, Robert M. Work and welfare, edited by Amy Gutmann. Princeton ton University Press, 1998. 100p. (362.5 S689)

Tax policy and the economy, volume 12, edited by James M. Poterba. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1998. 253p. (336.2 T235 v.12)

April-May 1999

BOOKS

Aczel, Amir D. Fermat's last theorem: unlocking the secret of an ancient mathematical problem. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996. 147p. (512.74 A189)

Aghion, Philippe & Jeffrey G. Williamson. Growth, inequality and globalization: theory, history and policy. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998. 207p. [R. Mattioli Lectures] (338.9 A268)

Computational methods for the study of dynamic economies, ed. by Ramon Marimon & Andrew Scott. OUP, 1999. 280p. (330.018 C738)

The economics of globalization: policy perspectives from public economics, edited by Assaf Razin & Efraim Sadka. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999. 420p. (336 E18)

Generational accounting around the world, edited by Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff & Willi Leibfritz. University of Chicago Press, 1999. 534p. (339.52 G326)

Income inequality: issues and policy options; a symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Aug. 1998. Kansas City: FRB, 1999. 397p. (339.2 I35)

Karatzas, Ioannis & Steven E. Shreve. Methods of mathematical finance. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1998. 407p. (332.0151 K18)

Labor economics, edited by Orley Ashenfelter. New York: Worth Publishers, 1999. 552p. (331 L122)

Lo, Andrew W. & A. Craig MacKinlay. A non-random walk down Wall Street. Princeton Univ. Press, 1999. 424p. (332.632 L795)

Real business cycles: a reader, edited by James E. Hartley, Kevin D. Hoover & Kevin D. Salyer. New York: Routledge, 1998. 669p. (338.54 R287)

Spulber, Daniel F. Market microstructure: intermediaries and the theory of the firm. Camb. Univ. Press, 1999. 374p (338.7 S772)

Trading blocs: alternative approaches to analyzing preferential free trade agreements, edited by Jagdish Bhagwati, Pravin Krisha and Arvind Panagariya. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999. 583p. (382.91 T763)

The WTO as an international organization, ed. by Anne O. Krueger. Univ. of Chicago PRess, for the NBER, 1998. 425p.(382.06 W927)

Wolfram, Stephen. The MATHEMATICA® book, 4th ed. Cambridge University Press, 1999. 1470p. (510.285 W861)

June 1999

BOOKS

Annual World Bank conference on development economics 1998, edited by Boris Pleskovic & Joseph E. Stiglitz. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1999. 411p. (338.9 A613 1998)

Diebold, Francis X. & Glenn D. Rudebusch. Business cycles: dura- tions, dynamics, and forecasting. Princeton University Press, 1999. 420p. (338.54 D559)

Dutta, Prajit K. Strategies and games: theory and practice. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999. 476p. (330.0151 D979)

Finance Literature Index, 6th ed., by Jean Louis Heck. New York: Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 1999. Reference: on journal index shelf.

Financing rural America. Kansas City: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 1997. 197p. (332.3 F491)

Fiscal institutions and fiscal performance, ed. by James Poterba & Jurgen von Hagen. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1999. (336.3 F528)

Kuttner, Robert. Everything for sale: the virtues and limits of markets. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1999. 410p. (338.973 K97)

The MATLAB 5 handbook, by Darren Redfern & Colin Campbell. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1998. 488p. Reference

NBER macroeconomics annual 1998, edited by Ben S. Bernanke and Julio J. Rotemberg. The MIT Press, 1999. (339 N277 1998)

Nasar, Sylvia. A beautiful mind: A biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. 459p. (001.4 N243)

Perry, Guillermo E. & Daniel Lederman. Financial vulnerability, spillover effects, and contagion: lessons from the Asian crises for Latin America. Washington, DC: World Bank, 1998. 69p. (338.542 P462)

Young, H. Peyton. Individual strategy and social structure: an evolutionary theory of institutions. Princeton University Press, 1998. 189p. (330.1 Y72)

***The Sons of Minnesota Economists Collection***

Coen, Ethan. (son of Ed) Gates of Eden: stories. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1998. 261p.

Papandreou, Nicholas. (son of Andreas) A crowded heart. New York: Picador, 1998.

Schmookler, Andrew Bard. (son of Jacob) Fool's gold: the fate of values in a world of goods. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.


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