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Book reviewed in this article: City, Region, and North American Hierarchy Benjamin Higgins, The Rise—And Fall? of Montreal: A Case Study of Urban Growth, Regional Economic Expansion and National Development. The Quality of Community Life David Popenoe, Private Pleasure, Public Plight: American Community Life in Comparative Perspective. Rural America Dale Jahr, Jerry W. Johnson, and Ronald Wimberley, eds., New Dimensions in Rural Policy: Building upon Our Heritage. East Meets West: Theory and Practice Don R. McCreary, Japanese-U.S. Business Negotiations: A Cross-Cultural Study. National Issues along the Rio Grande Lay James Gibson and Alfonso Corona Renteria, eds., The U.S. and Mexico: Borderland Development and the National Economies.     

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Book reviews in this article: Economic Power and Human Capital Ray Marshall, Unheard Voices: Labor & Economic Policy in a Competitive World. Housing—Changes Ahead Leland S. Burns and Leo Grebler, The Future of Housing Markets: A New Appraisal. State Industrial Development Policy Norman Walzer and David E. Chicoine, eds., Financing Economic Development in the 1980's: Issues and Trends. Quality of Life in Suburbia Donald N. Rothblatt and Daniel J. Garr, Suburbia: An International Assessment.     

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Book reviews in this article: Incomplete Picture Victor L. Arnold, ed., Alternatives to Confrontation: A National Policy toward Regional Change. Ladies’Room Gerda R. Wekerle, Rebecca Peterson, and David Morley, eds., New Space for Women. Speaking Fluidly Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Western Water Resources: Multilateral Monologues Alice H. Amsden, ed., The Economics of Women and Work. New York: To Plan or Not to Plan Joseph F. DiMento, The Consistency Doctrine and the Limits of Planning. Comprehensive Social Theory Walter Isard and Panagis Liossatos with Yoshigeto Kanemoto and Phyllis C. Kaniss Galvanized into Action Kai N. Lee and Donna Lee Klemka with Marion E. Marts, Electric Power and the Future of the Pacific Northwest. Seattle and London: Toil and Trouble Andrew Levison, The Full Employment Alternative. New York: Made in the U.S.A. Hsin-Min Tong, Plant Location Decisions of Foreign Manufacturing Investors. Also of Interest Peter Abelson, Cost Benefit Analysis and Environmental Boblems. Also of Interest Brian J. L. Berry and Lester P. Silverman, eds., Also of Interest John Carney, Ray Hudson, and Jim Lewis, eds. Also of Interest Leslie Dienes and Theodore Shabad, The Soviet Energy System: Resource Use and Policies. New York: Also of Interest Thomas R. Dye and Virginia Gray, eds., The Determinants of Public Policy. Lexington, Mass. Also of Interest Stahrl W. Edmunds and Adam Z. Rose, eds. Also of Interest Thomas G. Rawski, China's Transition to Industrialism: Producer Goods and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century.     

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Books reviewed in this article: H. Charles and L. Boon‐Chye (eds), Globalisation and SMEs in East Asia H. Charles and L. Boon‐Chye (eds), The Role of SMEs in National Economies in East Asia C. Allen, Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts Mushtaq H. Khan and K. S. Jomo (eds), Rents, Rent‐seeking and Economic Development: Theory and Evidence in Asia T. Dwyer (ed.), Resource Tax Policy in Countries of the Asia Pacific Region J. X. Kasperson and E. K. Roger, Global Environmental Risk J. D. Kelly and M. Kaplan, Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization R. E. Elson, Suharto: A Political Biography     

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Books reviewed: Char Miller, Fluid Arguments: Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict Michael Dear, (ed.) From Chicago to L.A.: Making Sense of Urban Theory Martin Dangerfield, Subregional Economic Cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe: The Political Economy of CEFTA Kenneth Button and Roger Stough, Air Transport Networks: Theory and Policy Implications     

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Book Review in This Article: Robert S. Eckley. Global Competition in Capital Goods: An American Perspective. Christian N. Madu. Strategic Planning in Technology Transfer to Less Developed Countries. John R. Logan and Todd Swanstrom. Beyond the City Limits: Urban Policy and Economic Restructuring in Comparative Perspective. Jurgen Schmandt and Robert Wilson, eds., Growth Policy in the Age of High Technology: The Role of Regions and States. Michael Chrisholm. Regions in Recession and Resurgence John M. Levy. Economic Development Programs for Cities, Counties and Towns. Cynthia M. Duncan, ed., Rural Poverty in America. Richard Stren, Rodney White, and Joseph Whitney, editors. Sustainable Cities — Urbanization and the Environment in International Perspective. Stuart Lowe and David Hughes, eds., A New Century of Social Housing John H. Goddeeris and Andrew J. Hogan, Editors Improving Access to Health Care: What Can the States Do? Dorothy J. Howell. Scientific Literacy and Environmental Policy. Gilbert B. Siegel. Public Employee Compensation and its Role in Public Sector Strategic Management     

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Sar A. Levitan and Robert Taggart, The Promise of Greatness. Martha Blaxall and Barbara Reagan, eds, Women and the Workplace: The Implications of Occupational Segregation. Katherine McMillan Heintz, Retirement Communities: For Adults Only. New Brunswick Richard D. Bingham with Thomas P. McNaught, The Adoption of Innovation by Local Government Karel Joseph Kansky, Urbanization under Socialism: The Case of Czechoslovakia. Gordon Soules, The Housing Crisis: Causes, Effects, Solutions. Susan Olson and M. Leanne Lachman, Tax Delinquency in the Inner City: The Problem and its Possible Solutions. Jonathan L. Freedman, Crowding and Behavior. Neal R. Pierce, The New England States: People, Politics, and Power in the Six New England States. Luther Tweeten and George L. Brinkman, Micropolitan Development: Theory and Practice of Greater-Rural Economic Development. Orvill Schell and Ilka Hartmann, The Town That Fought to Save Itself. Lewis J. Perelman, The Global Mind: Beyond the Limits to Growth.     

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Books reviewed Moazzem Hozzain, Iyanatul Islam and Reza Kibria, South Asian Economic Development:Transformation, Opportunities and Challenges, Valentine Udoh James and James S. Etim, (eds.) The Feminization of Development Processes in Africa Aura Reggiani, (ed.) Accessibility, Trade and Locational Behaviour Richard H. Olson and Thomas A. Lyson, (eds.) Under the Blade: The Conservation of Agricultural Landscapes     

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Book Review in this Article. Norman J. Glickman, The Growth and Management of the Japanese Urban System. Thomas J. Espenshade and William J. Serow, eds., The Economic Consequences of Slowing Population Growth. Phillip L. Clay, Neighborhood Renewal: Middle-class Resettlement and Incumbent Upgrading in American Neighborhoods. Juliet Saltman, Open Housing: Dynamics of a Social Movement. Herman Kahn, World Economic Development: 1979 and Beyond. Werner Sichel, ed., Public Utility Rate Making in an Energy-Conscious Environment. Russian Research Carol W. Lewis and Stephen Sternheimer, Soviet Urban Management: With Comparisons to the United States. Gene F. Summers and Arne Selvik, eds., Nonrnetropolitan Industrial Growth and Community Change. Tony Killick, Development Economics in Action: A Study of Economic Policies in Ghana. Glynn Cochrane, The Cultural Appraisal of Development Projects. Meryl Aldridge, The British New Towns: A Programme without a Policy. Edmond M. Burke, A Participatory Approach to Urban Planning.     

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Book reviews in this article: Industrial Change International G J.R. Linge and G.A. van der Knaap, eds., Labor, Environment and Industrial Change. Internal Colonies C. Matthew Snipp, ed. Public Policy Impacts on American Indian Economic Development. Do People Choose in Government Service Markets? The Competitive City: The Political Economy of Suburbia. Stimulating Business-The State as Entrepreneur Peter K. Eisinger. The Rise of the Entrepreneurial State: State and Local Economic Development Policy in the United States. Alternative Service Delivery: One View John A. Rehfuss. Contracting Out in Government: A Guide to Working with Outside Contractors to Supply Public Services. Alternative Service Delivery: Another View Lawrence K. Finley ed., Public Sector Privatization: Alternative Approaches to Service Delivery. Changes: United States and Australia Lay James Gibson and Robert J. Stimson eds., Regional Structural Change: Experience and Prospects in Two Mature Economies.     

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Book Review in this Article Nick Eberstadt, ed., Fertility Decline in the Less Developed Countries K. S. Shrader-Frechette, Nuclear Power and Public Policy: The Social and Ethical Problems of Fission Technology Lloyd C. Irland, Wildlands and Woodlots: The Story of New England's Forests David Lowenthal and Marcus Binney, eds., Our Past before Us: Why Do We Save It? Theodore W. Schultz, Investing in People: The Economics of Population Quality Peter O. Muller, Contemporary Suburban America Gail Garfield Schwartz, ed., Advanced Industrialization and the Inner Cities William W. Philliber and Clyde B. McCoy, eds., The Invisible Minority: Urban Appalachians A. C. Lewin, Housing Co-operatives in Developing Countries: A Manual for Self-Help in Low-Cost Housing Schemes Richard E. Lonsdale and John H. Holmes, eds., Settlement Systems in Sparsely Populated Regions: The United States and Australia Laurence J. C. Ma and Edward W. Hanten, eds., Urban Development in Modern China Charles Madge and Peter Willmott, Inner City Poverty in Paris and London Dean E. Mann, ed., Environmental Policy Formation: The Impact of Values, Ideology, and Standards Edward S. Mason et al., The Economic and Social Modernization of the Republic of Korea Thomas L. McPhail, Electronic Colonialism: The Future of International Broadcasting and Communication     

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Book Reviewed in this Article: Vox Populi John C. Pierce and Harvey R. Doerksen, eds., Water Politics and Public Involvement. Ann Arbor, Mich.: New Topic for Political Scientists James E. Anderson, ed., Economic Regulatory Policies. Carbondale, III.: The Collegiate Cookie Jar Walter I. Garms, Financing Community Colleges. New York: The Local Fisc James C. Snyder, Fiscal Management and Planning in Local Government Lexington, Mass.: Unsuccessful Reign Harry Edward Berndt, New Rulers in the Ghetto: Race and Residence David H. McKay, Housing and Race in Industrial Society: What Ails Us Kenneth E. F. Watt et al., The Unsteady State: The Effects of Indexing Henry J. Aaron, ed., Inflation and the Income Tax. Washington, D.C.: Mood of Gloom E. J. Mishan, The Economic Growth Debate: An Assessment, London: Development in Dixie Leonard F. Wheat, Urban Growth in the Nonmetro politan South. Lexington, Mass.: The Cost of Getting There Alan Abouchar, Transportation Economics and Public Policy: With Urban Extensions. New York:     

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Book Review in This Article: Derick W. Brinkerhoff and Arthur A. Goldsmith, editors. Institutional Sustainability in Agriculture and Rural Development: A Global Perspective. Edward J. Malecki. Technology and Economic Development: The Dynamics of Local, Regional and National Change. Edward J. Malecki. Technology and Economic Development: The Dynamics of Local, Regional and National Change. William R. Mangun, ed., Public Policy Issues in Wildlife Management. John D. Hutcheson, Jr., Francis P. Noe, and Robert E. Snow. Outdoor Recreation Policy: Pleasure and Preservation. Carl Davidson. Recent Developments in the Theory of Involuntary Unemployment. Randall Ebert and Joe A. Stone. Wage and Employment Adjustments in Local Labor Markets. Roy Bahl and William Duncombe. Economic Growth and Fiscal Planning: New York in the 1990s. Mary O. Borg, Paul M. Mason, and Stephen L. Shapiro. The Economic Consequences of State Lotteries. Ryutaro Komiya. The Japanese Economy: Trade, Industry, and Government. Ken Jones and Jim Simmons. The Retail Environment.     

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Book reviews in this article: Straight Talk from Our Former Editor U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (prepared by Lawrence R. Klein and Susan Ghozeil), A Popularized Version of 21 Doctoral Dissertations, R & D monograph. The Well-Tempered Caveat Benjamin Chinitz, ed., The Declining Northeast: Demographic and Economic Analyses.. George Sternlieb and James W. Hughes, eds., Revitalizing the Northeast: Prelude to an Agenda.. The Economic Solution William J. Baumol and Wallace E. Oates, Economics, Environmental Policy, and the Quality of Life. The No-Free-Lunch Bunch Harold Sprout and Margaret Sprout, The Context of Environmental Politics: Unfinished Business for America's Third Century. Of Flora, Fish, and Titmice Ian C. Laurie, ed., Nature in Cities: The Natural Environment in the Design and Development of Urban Green Space. An Array of Options David J. Bartholomew and Andrew F. Forbes, Statistical Techniques for Manpower Planning. Reusing Resources David W. Pearce and Ingo Walter, eds., Resource Conservation: Social and Economic Dimensions of Recycling. Once More with Fueling Wallace E. Tyner, Energy Resources and Economic Development in India. Left-of-Center Viewpoint Jeannine Swift, Economic Development in Latin America. Edward J. Blakely, ed., Community Development Research: Concepts, Issues, and Strategies. Elchanan Cohn, The Economics of Education P. W. Daniels, ed., Spatial Patterns of Office Growth and Location. Douglas Evans, Western Energy Policy: The Case for Competition. R. A. French and F. E. Ian Hamilton, eds., The Socialist City: Spatial Structure and Urban Policy. D. A. Kirby, Slum Housing and Residential Renewal: The Case in Urban Britain. Thomas D. Lynch, Public Budgeting in America. Ragaei El Mallakh, Qatar: Development of an Oil Economy. Roberta Balstad Miller, City and Hinterland: A Case Study of Urban Growth and Regional Development. Rakesh Mohan, Urban Economic and Planning Models: Assessing the Potential for Cities in Developing Countries. Joseph P. Newhouse, The Economics of Medical Care: A Policy Perspective. John L. Palmer, ed., Creating Jobs: Public Employment Programs and Wage Subsidies. V. Kerry Smith, ed., Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered.     

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Book reviews in this article: Vintage Wine James M . Buchanan, Liberty, Market and State: New Trade Outlook James J. Emery, Norman A. Graham, and Michael F. Oppenheimer An Interdisciplinary Approach Allan Schnaiberg, Nicolas Watts, and Klaus Zimmermann, eds. Small-Scale Farming Gerald G. Marten, ed. Traditional Agriculture in Southeast Asia: A Human Ecology Perspective. Technological Advancement Nathan Rosenberg and Claudio Frischtak, eds. Dividing up the Oil Walter J. Mead, Asbjorn Moseidjord, Dennis D. Muraoka, and Philip E. Sorensen A Substantial Work Herman Van der Wee, Prosperity and Upheaval: The World Economy 1945-1980. Development: Red, Blue, or Green? Herb Addo, et al. eds., Development as Social Transformation: Reflections on the Global Problematique. The European Experience Graham Hall, ed., European Industrial Policy. Urban Homesteading David P. Varady, Neighborhood Upgrading Assessment and Future Directions Martin Fransman, Technology and Economic Development. Technology, Economics, Energy Norman K. Whittlesey, ed., Energy and Water Management in Western Irrigated Agriculture. Israeli Enigma S.N. Eisenstadt, The Transformation of Israeli Society: An Essay in Interpretation.     

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Book Review in this Article. Richard A. Easterlin, ed., Population and Economic Change in Developing Countries. John F. McDonald, Economic Analysis of an Urban Housing Market. Thomas A. Clark, Blacks in Suburbs: A National Perspective. Stephen Merrett, State Housing in Britain. Lloyd C. Irland, Wilderness Economics and Policy. Richard E. Lonsdale and H. L. Seyler, eds., Nonmetro-politan Industrialization Donald N. Rothblatt, Daniel J. Garr, and Jo Sprague, The Suburban Environment and Women. Glenn V. Fuguitt, Paul R. Voss, and J. C. Doherty, Growth and Change in Rural America. Chia-ling Kuo, Social and Political Change in New York's Chinatown: The Role of Voluntary Associations. Frank Cancian, The Innovator's Situation: Upper-Middle-Class Conservatism in Agricultural Cornrnunities.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Understanding and Action
Peter Marris, Community Planning and Conceptions of Change. Policy Fad?
George W. Gau and Michael A. Goldberg, eds., North American Housing Markets into the Twenty-First Century. View from the Inside
W. G. Roeseler, Successful American Urban Plans. Theory Kickers
Philip L. Clay and Robert M. Hollister, eds., Neighborhood Policy and Planning. Invisible Hand
Albert M. Church, Conflicts over Resource Ownership: The Use of Public Policy by Private Interests. Beyond Growth Poles
Dennis A. Rondinelli, Secondary Cities in Developing Countries: Policies for Diffusing Urbanization. Clearing Obstacles
Max Neiman and Barbara J. Burt, eds., The Social Constraints on Energy-Policy Implementation. Causes and Relationships
Richard J. Cebula, Geographic Living-Cost Differentials. The Separatists
Pierre Clavel, Opposition Planning in Wales and Appalachia. International Buffet
Lawrence Susskind and Michael Elliott, Paternalism, Conflict, and Coproduction: Learning from Citizen Action and Citizen Participation in Western Europe. Social Impact Assessment
Steve H. Murdock, F. Larry Leistritz, and Rita R. Hamm, eds., Nuclear Waste: Socioeconomic Dimensions of Long-Term Storage. Two Environmental Problems
Partha Dasgupta, The Control of Resources. Cambridge     

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Book reviewed in this article: Numbers Racket
Richard A. Easterlin, Birth and Fortune: The Impact of Numbers on Personal Welfare. The Decision to Work
James P. Smith, ed., Female Labor Supply: Theory and Estimation. The Character of a People
Solomon B. Levine and Hisashi Kawada, Human Resources in Japanese Industrial Development. Beyond Nine to Five
Sarah Fenstermaker Berk, ed., Women and Household Labor Owner's Manual
Karen R. Polenske, The U.S. Multiregional Input-Output Accounts and Model. Collective Concerns
Scott Cummings, ed., Self-Help in Urban America: Patterns of Minority Business Enterprise. St. Louis Blues
Eugene I. Meehan, The Quality of Federal Policymaking: Programmed Failure in Public Housing. The Hard-Soft Path
Gregory A. Daneke and George K. Lagassa, eds., Energy Policy and Public Administration. Also of Interest
Ralph Andreano and John J. Siegfried, eds., The Economics of Crime. Regina Belz Armstrong et al., Regional Accounts: Structure and Performance of the New York Region's Economy in the Seventies, ed. Boris S. Pushkarev and Peter J. Bearse. Malcolm Gillis and Ralph E. Beak, Tax and Investment Policies for Hard Minerals: Public and Multinational Enterprises in Indonesia. Arthur P. Solomon, ed., The Prospective City: Economic, Population, Energy, and Environmental Developments. George Sternlieb, James W. Hughes, et al., America's Housing: Prospects and Problems. Edward L. Ullman, Geography as Spatial Interaction, ed.     

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Book Review in this Article. Thomas R. Pezzullo and Barbara E. Brittingham, eds., Salary Equity: Detecting Sex Bias in Salaries among College and University Professors. Carman St. John Hunter with David Harman, Adult Illiteracy in the United States: A Report to the Ford Foundation. Leo Grebler and Frank G. Mittelbach, The Inflation of House Prices: Its Extent, Causes, and Consequences. Eileen Zeitz, Private Urban Renewal: A Different Residential Trend. Joe W. Russell, Jr., Economic Disincentives for Energy Conservation. P. G. Bock and Irene Fraser Rothenberg, Internal Migration Policy and New Towns: The Mexican Experience. John Friedmann and Clyde Weaver, Territory and Function: The Evolution of Regional Planning. Ludwig L. Geismar and Shirley Geismar, Families in an Urban Mold: Policy Implications of an Australian-US. Comparison. Charles A. Clinton, Local Success and Federal Failure: A Study of Community Development and Educational Change in the Rural South. John Oosterbaan, Population Dispersal: A National Imperative. Warren Johnson, Muddling toward Frugality.     

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Book reviews in this article: Harnessing the Beast- America's Twin Passions Jack DeSario and Stuart Langton, eds. The Costs and Benefits of Getting There Hans A. Adler, Economic Appraisal of Transport Projects: A Manual with Case Studies. Dynamic Efficiency Stephen S. Cohen and John Zysman, Manufacturing Matters. Skill-Training Life Cycle Patricia M. Flynn, Facilitating Technological Change: The Human Resource Challenge. Our Underclass John Erickson and Charles Wilhelm, eds., Housing the Homeless. Attitudes and Policy John E. Tropman, Public Opinon and the Elderly, 1952-1978: A Kaleidoscope of Culture. Animal, Human, and Machine Power Prabhu L. Pingali, Yves Bigot, and Hans Binswanger Why Do We Drive? Scott L. Bottles, Los Angeles and the Automobile? Political Science Approaches Philip O. Foss, ed., Federal Lands Policy. Energy Policies Richard L. Ender and John Choon Kim, eds. Catch the Wave-Book Review Essay Booth, Douglas E. Regional Long Waves, Uneven Growth, and the Cooperative Alternative. Catch the Wave-Book Review Essay Mager, Nathan H. The Kondratieff Waves. Catch the Wave-Book Review Essay Marshall, Michael. Long Waves of Regional Development.