Review article

Social Relations in a Philippine Market: Self‐interest and Subjectivity by William G. Davis. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1973. Pp. xiii+315, maps, tables; $12.50.     

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EVALUATION FOR DECISION IN SOCIAL PROGRAMMES, Mark S. Thompson, Saxon House/Lexington Books, 1975, pp. xi + 196, £7.25.     

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TRANSPORT ORGANISATION IN A GREAT CITY—THE CASE OF LONDON, Michael F. Collins and Timothy M. Pharoah, Allen & Unwin, 1974, pp. 660, £12.50.     

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The Burning Question, Michael Simmonds, Adam Smith Institute, 1989, pp. 43, £9.00.     

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Janusz Bugajski and Maxine Pollock, East European Fault Lines: Dissent, Opposition, and Social Activism. Boulder: Westview Press, 1989. 332 pp., index, paper: $42.50.

H. Stuart Hughes, Sophisticated Rebels: the Political Culture of European Dissent, 1968–1987. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. 171 pp., index, cloth: $20.00.

H. Gordon Skilling, Samizdat and an Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1989. 293 pp., index, cloth.     

The politics of hunger: Review article

Food Politics: the regional conflict. David Balaam & Michael J Carey, London: Croom Helm. 1981. 246pp. £16.95.

World Hunger: a guide to the economic and political dimensions. Nicole Ball, Oxford: Clio Press. 1981. 386pp. £27.95.

The Political Economy of Food Aid. John Cathie, Aldershot, England: Gower. 1982. 190pp. £14.50.

Food Security for Developing Countries. Edited by Alberto Valdes, Epping, England: Bowker. 1981. 351pp. £16.25.

Future Dimensions of World Food and Population. Edited by Richard G Woods, Epping, England: Bowker. 1981. 413pp. £16.25.     

Review article: In Search of Indonesia

Indonesian Political Thinking 1945–1965. Herbert Feith and Lance Castles (eds.), Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press. 1970. pp. xvi, 505; n.p.

Rites of Modernization. Symbolic and Social Aspects of Indonesian Proletarian Drama. By James L. Peacock. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. 1968. Pp. xxv, 306; $11.

Javanese Villagers. Social Relations in Rural Modjokuto. By Robert R. Jay. Cambridge, Mass, M.I.T. Press. 1969. Pp. xiii, 468; £7.

Ethnicity, Party, and National Integration. An Indonesian Case Study. By R. William Liddle. New Haven, Yale University Press. Pp. xv, 238; $8.75.     

Review article: Urban problems in developing countries

The Urban Informal Sector: critical perspectives on employment and housing policies. Edited by Ray Bromley, Oxford: Pergamon. 1979. (First published in 1978 in World Development Vol 6 No 9 pp 1031–1200). £12.00

Casual Work and Poverty in Third World Cities. Edited by Ray Bromley & Chris Gerry, Chichester: John Wiley. 1979. 323 pp. £13.50

Urbanisation and Urban Growth in the Caribbean: an essay on social change in dependent societies. Malcolm Cross, Cambridge University Press. 1979. 174 pp. £10.50. £3.95 pb

People and Housing in Third World Cities: perspectives on the problem of spontaneous settlements. D J Dwyer, New York: Longman. 1979. (First published in 1975). 286 pp. £4.95 £4.95 pb

Urbanisation and Social Change in West Africa. Josef Gugler & William G Flanagan, Cambridge University Press. 1978. 235 pp. £10.00. £3.95 pb

Urban Development in the Third World: policy guidelines. John D Herbert, New York: Praeger. 1979. 238 pp. £12.25

Urbanisation in Papua New Guinea: a study of ambivalent townsmen. Hal B Levine & Marten Wolfzhan Levine, Cambridge University Press. 1979. 161 pp. £8.95. £3.95 pb

Networks and Marginality: life in a Mexican shantytown. Larissa Adler Lomnitz, London: Academic Press. 1977. (First published in Spanish in 1976.) 230 pp. £13.65

Million Cities of India. Edited by R P Misra, New Delhi: Vikas. 1978. 405 pp. £10.95

The Management of Squatter Upgrading: a case study of organisation, procedures and participation. David Pasteur, Farnborough, England: Saxon House. 1979. 232 pp. £11.50

Cities of Peasants: the political economy of urbanisation in the Third World. Bryan Roberts, London: Edward Arnold. 1978. 207 pp. £4.50 pb

An Urban Profile of the Middle East. Hugh Roberts, London: Croom Helm. 1979. 239 pp. £14.95

Urban Planning in Rich and Poor Countries. Hugh Stretton, Oxford University Press. 1978. 220 pp. £4.50. £2.25 pb

Manchester and Sao Paulo: problems of rapid urban growth. Edited by John D Wirth & Robert L Jones, Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1978. 234 pp. np

Housing Asia's Millions: problems, policies and prospects for low‐cost housing in Southeast Asia. Edited by Stephen H K Yeh & A A Laquian, Ottawa: International Development Research Centre. 1979. 243 pp. $12.00     

Economics of transition: A review article

Milford Bateman et al., Business Cultures in Central & Eastern Europe. Oxford: Butterworth‐Heinemann, 1997, xxii + 238 pp., £18.99.

John L. Campbell & Ove K. Pedersen (eds), Legacies of Change, Transformations of Postcommunist European Economies. Berlin: Aldine De Gruyter, 1996, xii + 258 pp., DM48.00.

Mark Knell (ed.), Economics of Transition, Structural Adjustments and Growth Prospects in Eastern Europe. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1996, xii + 246 pp., £45.00.

Martin Myant et al., Successful Transformations? The Creation of Market Economies in Eastern Germany and the Czech Republic. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1996 xiii + 267 pp., £49.95.     

Ten years of transition: a review article

Ten years after the launching of the transition process, many books and reports are offering a balance sheet of the transformation that occurred in Central and Eastern Europe and in the former Soviet Union area. The review article looks at some of them, particularly at Grzegorz W. Kolodko's book published in 2000, “From Shock to Therapy. The Political Economy of Postsocialist Transformation”. On the basis of this book and of some recent contributions, three major issues are discussed. First, why has there been such a recession in the beginning of the transition process in all countries, and was the recession inevitable? Second, due to the dire criticisms of the standard policy applied in these countries, dubbed the “Washington consensus”, has a “post-Washington consensus” emerged? Third, as we are already engaged in the second decade of the transition process, can we state when it is bound to be over, and what role is played by the European Union enlargement in accelerating the end of transition?     

From Marxism to communism: A review article

James D. White, Karl Marx and the Intellectual Origins of Dialectical Materialism. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996, xii + 416 pp., £40.00 h/b, £14.99 p/b.     

Jobs and local action: A review article

A Working Community: A Report on the Role of a Local Authority in Creating Jobs, and the Problems of Reducing Unemployment, Southwark Borough Council, 1987, £2.50.

Manchester Employment Plan, City Council Economic Development Department, with Services to Community Action and Tenants, and the Manchester Employment Research Group Ltd, 1987, free.

Sheffield: Working it Out, An Outline Employment Plan for Sheffield, Sheffield City Council, 1987, free.

Real Needs ‐ Local Jobs, Parliamentary Spokesperson's Working Group (available from John Prescott MP, House of Common, London SW1A 0AA), 1987, £2.00.     

The Soviet ideology of industrialization : A review article

This paper studies reproductive behaviour (ideal family size, completed family size and family planning acceptance) in a rural Indian area which was rapidly industrialising. Two castes and eleven villages were sampled. It was found that family planning was quite common and that fertility differentials among couples were related to the couples’ unique socioeconomic characteristics as well as to two group level variables (caste and village). The latter result was shown to be statistically significant, for all three measures of reproductive behaviour, even after many unique socioeconomic characteristics and attitudes of each couple were accounted for statistically.