Book reviews

Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture. By David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton. Cambridge: Polity, 1999. Pp.xxiii + 515. £59.50 and £16.99. ISBN 0 7456 1498 1 and 1499 X

Housing and Finance in Developing Countries. Edited by Kavita Datta and Gareth A. Jones. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. Pp.xxiii + 270. £50. ISBN 0 415 17242 X

Comprehending and Mastering African Conflicts: The Search for Sustainable Peace and Good Governance. Edited by Adebayo Adedeji. London and New York: Zed Books, in association with African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies (Ijebu‐Ode, Nigeria), 1999. Pp.xxii + 384. £50 and £16.95. ISBN 1 85649 762 3 and 763 1

Income Poverty and Beyond: Human Development in India. Edited by Raja J. Chelliah and R. Sudarshan. New Delhi: Social Science Press, 1999. Pp.xxvi + 221. Rs 395. ISBN 81 87358 00 9

Fiscal Decentralisation in Developing Countries. Edited by Richard M. Bird and Francois Vaillancourt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp.xiv + 304. £37.50 (US$59.95). ISBN 0 521 64143 8

The Future of Development Assistance: Common Pools and International Public Goods. By Ravi Kanbur and Todd Sandier with Kevin M. Morrison. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1999. ODC Policy Essay No.25. Pp.x + 106. $34.95/£10.50. ISBN 1 56517 026 1

The Global Crisis in Foreign Aid. Edited by Richard Grant and Jan Nijman. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1998. Pp.xxiv + 224. $34.95. ISBN 0 8156 2771 8

Economic Development. By Michael P. Todaro. Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman, 2000. Seventh Edition. Pp.xxvi + 783. £24.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 201 64858 X

Growth and Development: With Special Reference to Developing Economies. By A.P. Thirlwall. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1999. Sixth Edition. Pp.xvii + 521. £62.50 and £21.99. ISBN 0 333 74678 3 and 74679 1

Economics of Development. By Malcolm Gillis, Dwight H. Perkins, Michael Roemer and Donald R. Snodgrass. London: W.W. Norton, 1996. Fourth Edition. Pp.xvi + 604. £23.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 393 96957 6

A Finger in the Wound: Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala. By Diane M. Nelson. Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1999. $55.00 and $22.00. Pp.xvii + 450. ISBN 0 520 21284 3 and 21285 1     

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Monetary and Financial Policies in Developing Countries: Growth and Stabilisation. By Akhtar Hossain and Anis Chowdhury. London: Routledge, 1996. Pp.x + 230. £40. ISBN 0 415 10870 5

Globalization in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance. By Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996. Pp.vi + 227. £45 and £12.95. ISBN 0 7456 1244 X and 1245 8

Aid and Political Conditionality. Edited by Olav Stokke (EADI Book Series 16). London: Frank Cass, 1995. Pp.xviii + 417.£35 and £19.50. ISBN 0 7146 4640 7 and 4162 6

Coping with Austerity: Poverty and Inequality in Latin America. Edited by Nora Lustig. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1995. Pp.xviii + 460. $39.95 and $18.50 ISBN 0 8157 5318 7 and 5317 9

Unshackling the Private Sector: A Latin American Story. By Paul Holden and Sarath Rajapatirana. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1995. $10.95. ISBN 0 8213 3336 4

Debating Development Discourse. Edited by David Moore and Gerald Schmitz (Foreword by Colin Leys). London: Macmillan, 1995. £40. ISBN 0 312 12886 X

Lessons in Economic Policy for Eastern Europe from Latin America. Edited by Gary McMahon. London: Macmillan, 1996. Pp.xxii + 256. £40. ISBN 0 333 64270 8     

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United States Development Assistance Policy: The Domestic Politics of Foreign Economic Aid. By Vernon W. Ruttan. Baltimore, MD and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp.xxiv + 657. £54. ISBN 0 8018 5051 7

India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity. By Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp.292. £25. ISBN 0 19 829012 8

Regaining Marxism. By Ken Post. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press for Institute of Social Studies, 1996. Pp.x + 393. £45. ISBN 0 333 65444 7

Inflation and Investment Controls in China: The Political Economy of Central‐Local Relations during the Reform Era. By Yasheng Huang. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.xviii + 371. £40. ISBN 0 521 55483 7

The Village Concept in the Transformation of Rural Southeast Asia: Studies from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Edited by Mason C. Hoadley and Christer Gunnarsson. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1996. Pp.xviii + 229. £35. ISBN 0 7007 0350 0

African Industry in Decline: The Case of Textiles in Tanzania in the 1980s. By Peter de Valk. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996. Pp.xii + 370. £45. ISBN 0 333 65445 5

The Urban Opportunity: The Work of the NGOs in Cities of the South. Edited by Nicolas Hall, Rob Hart and Diana Mitlin. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1996. Pp.xv + 128. £9.95 ISBN 1 85339 347 9

Doctrines of Development. By M.P. Cowen and R.W. Shenton. London: Routledge, 1996. Pp.xv + 554. £18.99. ISBN 0 415 12516 2

Democracy, Development and the Countryside: Urban‐Rural Struggles in India. By Ashutosh Varshney (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.xi + 214. £35. 0 521 44153 6

Ethnicity and Development: Geographical Perspectives. Edited by Dennis Dwyer and David Drakakis‐Smith. Chichester: J. Wiley &; Sons, 1996. Pp.296. £35. ISBN 0 47196354 2

Indigenous Organizations and Development. Edited by Peter Blunt and D. Michael Warren. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1996. Pp.xv + 253. £16.95. ISBN 1 85339 321 5

Sustainable Tourism in Islands and Small States: Issues and Policies. Edited by Lino Briguglio, Brian Archer, Jafar Jafari and Geoffrey Wall. London: Pinter, 1996. Pp.xiii + 226. £45. ISBN 1 85567 371 1

Sustainable Tourism in Islands and Small States: Case Studies. Edited by Lino Briguglio, Richard Butler, David Harrison and Walter Leal Filho. London: Pinter, 1996. Pp.xiv + 317. £45. ISBN 1 85567 371 1

Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. By Mahmood Mamdani (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp.xii + 356. (Also published: Kampala: Fountain Publishers. ISBN 9970 02 090 0; Cape Town: David Philip. ISBN 0 85255 399 4; London: James Currey. £14.95. ISBN 0 852555 399 4)     

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Author: SALIH, M.A. MOHAMED; African Democracies and African Politics; Reviewer: Liiso Laakso; Author: MOLYNEUX, MAXINE; Women's Movements in International Perspective; Reviewer: Katie Willis; Author: ATHUKORALA, PREMA-CHANDRA; Crisis and Recovery in Malaysia: The Role of Capital Controls; Reviewer: Anne Booth; Author: RUTHERFORD, BLAIR A.; Working on the Margins: Black Workers, White Farmers in Postcolonial Zimbabwe; Reviewer: Angela Cheater; Editors: DESAI, VANDANA and POTTER, ROBERT B.; The Companion to Development Studies; Reviewer: Philipp H. Lepenies; Editor: SCOONES, IAN; Dynamics and Diversity: Soil Fertility and Farming Livelihoods in Africa; Reviewer: Michael Stocking; Editor: CHANG, HA-JOON; Joseph Stiglitz and the World Bank: The Rebel Within; Reviewer: Barry Riddell; Editors: GUERRIERI, PAOLO, IAMMARINO, SIMONA and PIETROBELLI, CARLO; The Global Challenge to Industrial Districts: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Italy and Taiwan; Reviewer: Michael J. Ryan; Authors: PAYNE, ANTHONY and SUTTON, PAUL; Charting Caribbean Development; Reviewer: Jean Stubbs     

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Author: NEEFJES, KOOS; Environments and Livelihoods: Strategies for Sustainability; Reviewer: Caroline Ashley; Editors: KLEINBERG, REMONDA BENSABAT and CLARK, JANINE A.; Economic Liberalization, Democratization and Civil Society in the Developing World; Reviewer: Walter Eberlei; Authors: CORBRIDGE, STUART and HARRISS, JOHN; Reinventing India: Liberalisation, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy; Reviewer: Gurharpal Singh; Author: SEABRIGHT, PAUL; The Vanishing Rouble: Barter Networks and Non-Monetary Transactions in Post-Soviet Societies; Reviewer: Alistair McAuley; Author: BRASS, TOM; Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism: The Return of the Agrarian Myth; Reviewer: James Overton; Author: MBAKU, J.M.; Bureaucratic and Political Corruption in Africa: The Public Choice Perspective; Reviewer: Robert Williams; Author: ROSE-ACKERMAN, SUSAN; Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences and Reform; Reviewer: Robert Williams; Author: FIELDS, GARY S.; Distribution and Development: A New Look at the Developing World; Reviewer: Arne Bigsten; Author: ABU SHAIR, OSANA J.A.R.; Privatization and Development; Reviewer: Stephen Trotter; Editors: COOK, PAUL, KIRKPATRICK, COLIN and NIXSON, FREDERICK; Privatization, Enterprise Development and Economic Reform: Experiences of Developing and Transitional Economies; Reviewer: Stephen Trotter; Editor: HARRIS, GEOFF; Recovery from Armed Conflict in Developing Countries: An Economic and Political Analysis; Reviewer: Paul Dunne     

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Author: MASKUS, KEITH; Intellectual Property Rights in the Global Economy; Reviewer: Donald G. Richards; Author: SVEDBERG, PETER; Poverty and Undernutrition: Theory, Measurement and Policy; Reviewer: Stephen Devereux; Editors: JALILAN, HOSSEIN, TRIBE, MICHAEL and WEISS, JOHN; Industrial Development and Policy in Africa: Issues of De-industrialisation and Development Strategy; Reviewer: Peter Lawrence; Editors: WISE, CAROL and ROETT, RIORDAN; Exchange Rate Politics in Latin America; Reviewer: Omar Sanchez; Author: THE WORLD BANK; India: Reducing Poverty, Accelerating Development; Reviewer: John Farrington     

Toward a theory of induced institutional innovation

In this paper we elaborate a theory of institutional innovation in which changes in the demand for institutional innovation are induced by changes in relative resource endowments and by technical change. We illustrate, from agricultural history, how changes in resource endowments and technical change have induced changes in private property rights and in the development of non‐market institutions. We also consider the impact of advances in social science knowledge and of cultural endowments on the supply of institutional change. In a final section we present the elements of a model of institutional innovation that maps the relationships among resource endowments, cultural endowments, technology, and institutions.     

Book reviews

Branko Lazitch and Milorad M. Drachkovitch, Lenin and the Comintern, Volume I. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1972. (Publications Series 106.) xiii + 683 pp. $17.50.

Karl‐Eugen Wadekin, The Private Sector in Soviet Agriculture. Edited by George Karcz. Second, enlarged, revised edition of Privatproduzenten in der sowjetischen Landzoirtschaft. Translated by Keith Bush. Berkeley, Calif, and London: University of California Press, 1973. xviii + 407 pp. $17.50.

Richard H. Ullman, The Anglo‐Soviet Accord. (Vol. III of Anglo‐Soviet Relations, 1917–1921.) Princeton, N.J. and London: Princeton UP, 1972. xv + 509 pp. £7.00.

Eloise Engle and Lauri Paananen, The Winter War. (The Russo‐Finnish Conflict, 1939–40.) New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973. xv+176 pp. $7.95.

Allen F. Chew, The White Death: the Epic of the Soviet‐Finnish Winter War. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1971. x + 313 pp. $12.50.

Geoffrey Jukes, The Soviet Union in Asia. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1973. 304 pp. £2.95.

Jaroslaw A. Piekalkiewicz, Public Opinion Polling in Czechoslovakia, 1968–69. Results and Analysis of Surveys Conducted During the Dubcek Era. (Praeger Special Studies in International Politics and Government.) New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972, and London: Pall Mall Press, 1973. xxix + 357 pp. £7.75.

Deborah D. Milenkovitch, Plan and Market in Yugoslav Economic Thought. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1971. (Yale Russian and East European Studies, 9.) x + 323 pp. $10.00. £4.50.

Robert G. Wesson, The Soviet Russian State. New York and London: John Wiley & Sons, 1972. x + 404 pp. £4.00. Condensed edition £1.95.

Joseph Nedava, Trotsky and the Jews. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1972. 299 pp. $6.00.

Joshua Rothenberg, The Jewish Religion in the Soviet Union. New York: KTAV Publishing House (for Brandeis University), 1972. (Series: Institute for East European Jewish Studies.) viii + 242 pp. $10.00.

Vladimir Petrov, Escape from the Future. Bloomington & London: Indiana UP, 1973. xiii + 470 pp. £3.75.     

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The article attempts to model structural adjustment patterns in a single, middle‐income oil exporter, Mexico. It explores the economy‐wide costs, in terms of economic growth, income inequality and poverty, of Mexico's economic stabilisation policies of the 1980s. On the basis of counterf actual simulation, it also explores the likely impacts of alternative adjustment strategies. This analysis utilises a modified Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) approach designed to overcome one of the major shortcomings of the conventional SAM: the assumption of unitary expenditure elasticities in household accounts. The base model is calibrated to track the overall and sectoral growth performance of the Mexican economy from 1980 to 1986 and becomes the foundation upon which our policy experiments are built. The article is part of an on‐going study of economy‐wide impacts of alternative structural adjustment policies in Mexico [Adelman and Taylor, 1990], and proceeds as follows: the SAM framework and estimated SAM are described in parts I and II; part III presents the base SAM model solution for 1980 to 1986; part IV presents the results of the policy experiments; and the conclusions are summarised in part V.     

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Yeshayahu Jelinek, The Parish Republic; Hlinka's Slovak People's Party, 1939–1945, East European Quarterly, Boulder, Colorado; distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, 1976, 206 p., $11.50.

M.K. Dziewanowski, The Communist Party of Poland: An Outline of History. 2d ed. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. 419 p. $20.00.

Branko Horvat, Mihailo Markovic and Rudi Supek, eds., Self‐governing Socialism. A Reader. White Plains, N.Y.: International Arts and Sciences Press, 1975. Vol. I, xiv, 490 pp., Vol. II, viii, 327 pp. $19.00 paper.

Celia S. Heller, On the Edge of Destruction: Jews of Poland Between the Two World Wars. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. 369 p. $14.95.     

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Larry Hirschhorn, REWORKING AUTHORITY: LEADING AND FOLLOWING IN THE POST-MODERN ORGANIZATZON Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 1997. $25.00 cloth Pp. 129, iv.

Larry S. Lutton, THE POLITICS OF GARBAGE: A COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVE ON SOLID WASTE POLICY MAKING Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. Cloth. Pp. 307, xii.     

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Clay G. Westcott (ed.), Key Governance Issues in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Viet Nam (Manila: Asian Development Bank, 2001), 71 pages.

Michael Jacobsen and Ole Bruun (eds.), Human Rights and Asian Values: Contesting National Identities and Cultural Representations in Asia (Surrey, Great Britain: Curzon Press, 2000), 330 pages.

Robert H. Taylor (ed.), Burma: Political Economy Under Military Rules (London: Hurst & Company, 2001).

Satu Kahkonen and Anthony Lanyi (eds.), Institutions, Incentives and Economic Reforms in India (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2000).

Kyung‐Ae Park and Dalchoong Kim (eds.), Korean Security Dynamics and Transition (New York: Palgrave, 2001), 209 pages.     

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Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times, (Verso, London 1994). 414pp. ISBN 1–85984–015–9.

Iwen Morgan, Beyond the Liberal Consensus: A Political History of the United States, (Hurst, London 1994). 302 pp. ISBN 1–85065–204‐X.

Andrew Ross, The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life: Nature's Debt to Society, (Verso, London 1994). 308 pp. ISBN 0–86091–429–1.

S.Padgett (ed), The Development of the German Chancellorship: Adenauer to Kohl, (Hurst, London 1994). 204 pp. ISBN 1–85065–134–5.

Bryan D. Palmer, E.P. Thompson, Objections and Oppositions, (Verso, London 1994). 201 pp. ISBN 1–85984 975 X.