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Other Books Received
Listed below are some of the books we received but were unable to review because of lack of space.
Latin America
Eliana Cardoso and Ann Helwege, Latin America’s Economy: Diversity, Trends, and Conflicts, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1991, viii + 326 pp., $29.95.
Victor J. Elias, Sources of Growth; A Study of Seven Latin American Economies, International Center for Economic Growth, San Francisco, CA, USA, xx + 254 pp., $14.95 (paper).
Patricio Meller (editor), The Latin American Development Debate: Neostructuralism, Neomoneturism, and Adjustment Processes, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, USA, 1991, xiii + 220 PP., $37.50.
Simon Teitel (editor), Towards a New Development Strategy for Latin America: Pathways from Hirschman’s Thought, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, USA, 1992, xii + 403 pp., $25 (paper).
East Asia
Dilip K. Das, Korean Economic Dynamism, St. Mania’s Press, New York, NY, USA, 1991. xiv + 230 pp., $79.95.
Taktoshi Ito, The Japanese Economy, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1992, xvi 455 PP., $39.95.
Nicholas R. Lardy, Foreign Trade and Economic Reform in China 1978-1990, Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, USA, 1992, x + 197 pp., $44.95.
Byung-Nak Song, The Rise of the Korean Economy, Oxfoed University Press, New York, NY, USA, 1991, xviii + 278 pp., $14.95 (paper).
Gordon White (editor), The Chinese State in the Era of Economic Reform, M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY, USA, 1991, xiii + 345 pp., $49.95.
Eastern Europe
Judy Batt, East Central Europe from Reform to Transformation, and John Pinder, The European Community and Eastern Europe, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations Press, New York, NY, USA, 188 pp., and 129 pp., respectively, both $14.95.
Oliver Blanchard, Rudiger Dornsbusch, Paul Krugman, Richard Layard, and Lawrence Summers, Reform in Eastern Europe, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1991, xxiii + 98 pp., $17.95.
Robert W Campbell. The Socialist Economies in Transition: A Primer on Semi Reformed Systems, Indiana University Press, Bloomington. Indiana. USA, 1991, vi+241 pp.. $35($12.95 paper).
Richard A Debs. Harvey Shapiro, and Charles Taylor, Financing Eastern Europe, Group of Thirty, Washington, DC, USA, 1991, iii + 203 pp., $15.
Iliana Zloch-Christy, East-West Financial Relations: Current Problems and Future Prospects, Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, USA, 1991, xiii + 126 pp., $16.95.