Book Reviews : The Year Book of World Affairs 1982. Editors George W. Keeton and Georg Schwarzenberger. Stevens & Sons. £16.50
| DOI | 10.1177/004711788200700417 |
| Date | 01 October 1982 |
| Published date | 01 October 1982 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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Determination
and
Unemployment:
the
Efficiency
Wage
Model,
by
Joseph
E.
Stiglitz;
Agricultural
Development,
Education
and
Innovation,
by
Mark
R.
Rosenzweig;
and
Uncertainty,
Information
and
the
Inflation
Tax
in
Poor
Countries,
by
Mark
Gersovitz.
Part
Two:
The
Open
Economy;
Unequal
Exchange
in
a
Lewis-Type
World,
by
Pranab
K
Bardhan;
Protection
and
Growth
in
a
Dual
Economy,
by
Ronald
Findlay;
Lessons
of
Experience
under
Fixed
Exchange
Rates,
by Arnold C.
Harberger and
Sebastian
Edwards;
Currency Baskets
and
Real
Effective
Exchange
Rates,
by
William
H.
Branson
and
Louka
T.
Katseli;
and
Negotiating
International
Economic
Order,
by
Goran
Ohlin.
Part
Three:
Cost
Benefit
and
Planning:
General
Equilibrium
Theory,
Project
Evaluation
and
Economic
Development,
by
T.
N.
Srinivasan:
The
Economics
of
Pollution
Control,
by
Partha
Dasgupta;
and
Planning
and
Dual
Values
of
Linearized
Nonlinear
Problems:
a
Gothic
Tale,
by
William
J.
Baumol.
Part
Four:
Economic
History
and
History
of Thought:
Economic
Growth
and
Stagnation
in
the
United
Kingdom
before
the
First
World
War,
by
SirAlec
Cairncross;
The
Cyclical
Pattern
of
Long-Term
Lending,
by
Charles
P.
Kindleberger;
Inter-Country
Diffusion
of
Economic
Growth,
1870-1914,
by
Lloyd
G.
Reynolds:
Latin
America
in
D,epression,
1929-39,
by
Carlos
F.
Diaz-Alejandro;
Indian
Industrialization
before
1945,
by
Ian
M.
D.
Little:
The
Rise
and
Decline of
Development
Economics,
by
Albert
O.
Hirschman.
Since
the
papers
include
authoritative
discussion
on
the
role
of
governmental
policy
in
the
development
process,
especially
with
reference
to
planning
and
the
choice
of
public
projects,
inflation,
import
substitution,
the relation
between
developing
and
developed
countries
and
the
&dquo;new
international
economic
order&dquo;,
it
is
obvious
that
the
book
will
be
of
special
interest
to
academic
researchers,
practising
professionally
in
international
organisations
and
national
governments.
The
Year
Book
of
World
Affairs
1982.
Editors
George
W.
Keeton
and
Georg
Schwarzenberger.
Stevens
&
Sons.
£16.50.
The
volume
opens
with
an
Annual
Survey
entitled
Trends
and
Events
which
is
intended
to
highlight
material
in
earlier volumes
which
is
of particular
relevance
to
events
today.
This
can
prove
a
very
useful
tool
in
present
studies.
It
is
followed
by
four
articles
dealing
with
aspects
of
our
present
discontents.
Professor
Richard
Falk
discusses
The
Decline
of
International
Order:
Normative
Regression
and
Geopolitical
Maelstrom.
He
writes
&dquo;The
notion
of
decline
is
elusive.
My
usage
implies
three
dimensions:
the
risk
of
general
war:
the
degree
to
which
statecraft
is
multilateral:
and
the
diminishing
extent
to
which
world
order
values
are
realised...The
third
dimension
involving
world
order
values
is
of
little
significance
without
specification.
In
brief,
world
order values
as
used
here
refers
to
peace
(violence-avoidance),
economic
well-being,
human
rights
and
ecological
balance.
&dquo;The
central
thesis
of
this
analysis
of
international
order
is
that
international
order
is
declining
in
quality
with
respect
to
each
of
these
dimensions.&dquo;
However,
the
writer
feels
that
there
is
room
for
hope
since
the
course
of
human
history,
however
discouraging
at
a
given
moment,
is
not
immutable,
if
problems
are
recognised
for
what
they
are
and
are
then
energetically
tackled.
Wayland
and
Elizabeth
Young
deal
with
DisarmamentNow;
Catching
Up
with
Crucé.
Since
this
reviewer
had
never
heard
of
Eméric
Crucé
it
might
be
helpful
to
quote
the
account
of
his
work
given
here.
He
was &dquo;a
Parisian
monk
who
published
a
bookLeNouveau
Cynée
in
1623
in
which
he
called
for
general
and
comprehensive
disarmament
down
to
the
level
required
to
maintain
orderwithin
nation
states,
for
national
resettlement
plans
for
the
demobilised
armies
for
a
’United
Nations
Assembly’ covering
the
whole
world
as
he
knew
it.
and
for
a
peace-keeping
force
to
back
up
the
decisions
of
the
&dquo;Assembly&dquo;.
All
this
was
remarkable,
but
most
remarkable
of
all
was
that
he
included
Ottoman
Turkey,
Persia
and
the
princes
of
India
and
Africa
in
his
proposed
&dquo;United
Nations&dquo;:
he
was
the
first
European
to
count
Islam.
Buddhism
and
Hinduism
worthy
of inclusion
in
an
ideal
world
order:
it
is
only
10
years
since
we
re-admitted
China
in
today’s
&dquo;United
Nations&dquo;.
The
authors
advocate,
inter
alia,
that
the
idea
of
the
Geneva
Disarmament
Conference
should
be
used
as
a
structure
of
theory
into
which
must
be
fitted
the
practical
goals
which
can
be
achieved,
and
the
introduction
into
the
Special
General
Assembly
on
Disarmament
of
a
Single
Informal
Negotiating
Text
on
the
analogy
of
the
Law
of
the
Sea
Conference.
This.
they
feel,
might
materially
contribute
to
breaking
the
prevailing
logjam.
They
say
that
&dquo;above
all,
such
a
move
would
be
a
way
of
getting
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