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RECENT ACQUISITIONS

July-August 1997

BOOKS

Barro, Robert J. Determinants of economic growth: a cross-country empirical study. The MIT Press, 1997. 145p. (338.9 B276)

Basu, Kaushik. Analytical development economics: the less developed economy revisited. The MIT Press, 1997. 366p. (338.9 B327)

Corden, W. Max. Trade policy and economic welfare, 2nd. Oxford University Press, 1997. 301p. (382.3 C794 2nd)

Economies in transition: comparing Asia and Europe, edited by Wing Thye Woo, Stephen Parker & Jeffrey D. Sachs. The MIT Press, 1997. 412p. (338.947 E20)

Firms, organizations and contracts: a reader in industrial organization, edited by Peter J. Buckley & Jonathan Michie. Oxford University Press, 1996. 475p. (338.7 F525)

Flaschel, Peter, Reiner Franke & Willi Semmler. Dynamic macroeconomics: instability, fluctuation, and growth in monetary economies. The MIT Press, 1997. 455p. (339.0151 F585)

Internet economics, edited by Lee W. McKnight & Joseph P. Bailey. The MIT Press, 1997. 525p. (384.3 I61)

Macho-Stadler, Ines & J. David Perez-Castrillo. An introduction to the economics of information: incentives and contracts. Oxford University Press, 1997. 277p. (338.8 M151)

Ruttan, Vernon W. United States development assistance policy: the domestic policies of foreign economic aid. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 657p. (338.9 R982)

Sen, Amartya. On economic inequality, expanded edition. Oxford University Press, 1997. 260p. (330.16 S474)

Starr, Ross M. General equilibrium theory: an introduction. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997. 250p. (339.5 S796)

The Tobin tax: coping with financial volatility, edited by Mahbub ul Haq, Inge Kaul & Isabelle Grunberg. Oxford University Press, 1996. 318p. (332.45 T629)

Vega-Redondo, Fernando. Evolution, games, and economic behaviour. Oxford University Press, 1996. 209p. (330.0151 V422)

World development report 1997: The state in a changing world. Oxford University Press, for the World Bank, 1997. 265p. (338.9 W927 1997)

 

September 1997

BOOKS

Brunner, Karl & Allan H. Meltzer. Money and the economy: issues in monetary analysis. Cambridge University Press, 1993. 392p. (332.4 B898)

Deaton, Angus. The analysis of household surveys: a microeconometric approach to development policy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, for the World Bank, 1997. 479p.(339.4 D285)

Gabszewicz, Jean J., et al. Location theory. Harwood Academic Publishers, 1986. 190p. (338.6 G119)

Health and welfare during industrialization, edited by Richard H. Steckel & Roderick Floud. University of Chicago Press, for the NBER, 1997. 465p. (338.43 H434)

Krugman, Paul. The age of diminished expectations: U.S. economic policy in the 1990s, 3rd ed. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1997. 232p. (338.973 K94 3rd)

Kuznets, Simon. Economic development, the family, and income distribution: selected essays. Cambridge University Press, 1989. 463p. (330.908 K97)

Simon, Herbert A. Models of bounded rationality, vol. 3: Empirically grounded economic reason. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1997. 457p. (330.08 S595 v.3)

Stiglitz, Joseph E. Economics, 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 1997. 1066p. (330 S855 2nd)

Tax progressivity and income inequality, edited by Joel Slemrod. Cambridge University Press, 1994. 363p. (336.29 T235)

Viscusi, W. Kip. Fatal tradeoffs: public and private responsibil- ities for risk. Oxford University Press, 1992. 306p. (363.1 V827)

The welfare state in transition: reforming the Swedish model, ed. Richard B. Freeman, Robert Topel & Birgitta Swedenborg. Univ. of Chicago Press, for the NBER, 1997. 477p. (330.948 W445) [Includes paper by Ljungqvist and Sargent.]

 

SAMPLE COPIES OF JOURNALS

Public Economics Review, June 1996. Dept. of Public Finance, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2/year.

Review of Development Economics, vol. 1 #2, June 1997. Blackwell Publishers, 3/year.

 

October-November 1997

BOOKS

 Annual World Bank conference on development in Latin America and the Caribbean 1995: The challenges of reform, edited by Shahid J. Burki, Sebastian Edwards & Sri-Ram Aiyer. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1997. 191p. (338.98 A613 1995)

The China circle: economics and technology in the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, edited by Barry Naughton. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1997. 316p. (330.951 C539)

Chow, Gregory. Econometrics. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983. 432p. (330.0182 C552)

The East Asian miracle: economic growth and public policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 387p. (338.95 E13)

The economics of preferential trade agreements, edited by Jagdish Bhagwati & Arvind Panagariya. Washington, DC: AEI Press, 1996. (382.91 E19)

Freixas, Xavier and Jean-Charles Rochet. Microeconomics of banking. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1997. 312p. (332.1 F866)

Gallant, A. Ronald. An introduction to econometric theory: measure-theoretic probability and statistics with applications to economics. Princeton University Press, 1997. 202p. (330.0182 G163)

Greene, William H. Econometric analysis, 3rd ed. Prentice-Hall, 1997. 1075p. (330.0182 G812 3rd)

Labor markets in Latin America: combining social protection with market flexibility, edited by Sebastian Edwards and Nora C. Lustig. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1997. (331.12 L123)

Nelson, Richard R. and Sidney G. Winter. An evolutionary theory of economic change. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982. 437p. (338.9 N429)

Shone, Ronald. Economic dynamics: phase diagrams and their economic application. Cambridge University Press, 1997. 553p. (330.0151 S559)

Sichel, Daniel E. The computer revolution: an economic perspective. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1997. 152p. (338.47 S565)

 

December 1997

BOOKS

Frankel, Jeffrey A. Regional trading blocs in the world economic system. Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 1997. 364p. (382.91 F829)

Ginsburgh, Victor and Michiel Keyzer. The structure of applied general equilibrium models. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 997. 555p. (339.5 G493)

Solow, Robert M. Learning from "Learning by Doing": lessons for economic growth. Stanford University Press, 1997. 94p. (338.9 S689)

Technology and growth: conference proceedings June 1996, edited by Jeffrey C. Fuhrer & Jane Sneddon Little. Boston, MA: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 1997. 309p. (338.09 T255)

Topics in public economics: theoretical and applied analysis, edited by David Pines, Efraim Sadka & Itzhak Zilcha. Cambridge University Press, 1997. 344p. (336 T674)

 

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

Statistical Abstract of the U.S. 1997, 117th ed. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, October 1997. 1023p.

U.S. Government manual, 1997/98. National Archives and Records Administration, May 1997. 859p.

 

NEW JOURNALS

Estudios de Economia, Dept. de Economia, Universidad de Chile. Vol. 24, no. 1, June 1997. 6 out of the 7 articles are in Spanish [Article in English is by Donald Robbins, "Trade and Wages in Colombia"].

Macroeconomic dynamics, Cambridge University Press, William A. Barnett, ed. Quarterly starting in 1997. First two issues include articles by K. Judd, G. Tauchen, L.P. Hansen, J. Cochrane, W. den Haan, and P. Krusell.

Review of Economic Dynamics, Academic Press and the Society for Economic Dynamics. Quarterly starting in 1998. Editors: Tom Cooley, David Levine, Ramon Marimon, Dale Mortenson, Ed Prescott, Tom Sargent, and Roger Craine. 9 of the 12 economists on the editorial board have Minnesota connections: V.V. Chari, Larry Christiano, Gary Hansen, Nobu Kiyotaki, Per Krusell, Richard Rogerson, Aldo Rustichini, Manuel Santos, and Randy Wright.  


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