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Reviews the book 'Value, Capital, and Growth: Papers in Honour of Sir John Hicks,' edited by J.N. Wolfe.

Reviews the book 'Marchés, Capital et Incertitude,' edited by M. Boiteux, Th. de Montbrial, and B. Munier.

Reviews the book "Restoring Europe's Prosperity: Macroeconomic Papers From the Centre for European Policy Studies," by O. Blanchard, R. Dornbusch and R. Layard.

Reviews the book 'Frontiers of Quantitative Economics,' edited by Michael D. Intriligator.

The article reviews the book "Stabilization Policies in Interdependent Economies," edited by Emil Claassen and Pascal Salin.

Reviews the book "Papers of the General Council of the International Workingmen's Association, New York, 1872-1876," edited by Samuel Bernstein.

Reviews the book "The Individual in Society: Papers on Adam Smith," by A. L. Mcfie.

Reviews the book 'The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul A. Samuelson,' edited by Joseph E. Stiglitz.

Reviews the book 'The Foundations of Monetary Economics,' vol.3, edited by David Laidler.

Reviews the book 'Adaptive Economic Models,' edited by Richard W. Day and Theodore Groves.

Reviews the book 'Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 3, Individual Choice Under Certainty' and 'Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 4, The Economics of Information,' by K.J. Arrow.

The article reviews the book "Contemporary Issues in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications," edited by Ralf Becker and Stan Hurn.

Reviews the book "The Economics of Property-Casualty Insurance," edited by David F. Bradford.

Reviews the book 'Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 2, General Equilibrium,' by K.J. Arrow.

Reviews the book 'Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume I, Social Choice and Justice,' by K.J. Arrow.

Reviews the book 'Papers on Welfare and Growth,' by Tiber Scitovsky.

Reviews the book 'Organization of Debt Into Currency and Other Papers,' by Charles Holt Carroll and edited by Edward C. Simmons.

Reviews the book 'Antitrust Economics,' by Oliver E. Williamson.

Reviews the book `American Domestic Priorities: An Economic Appraisal,' edited by John M. Quigley and Daniel Rubinfeld.

The article reviews the book "The global economy in the 1990s: a long run perspective," edited by Paul W. Rhode and Gianni Toniolo.

Reviews the book 'Completing Transition: The Main Challenges,' edited by Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, Lindsay Wolfe and Peter Mooslechner.

This article comments on several articles about the phenomena of war and peace in relation to sociology. Several authors recognize the threat posed to Marxism by the phenomenon of war. Weaker sociologists will take refuge in useful phrases, such as relative autonomy, uneven development and determination in the last instance. One of the legacies of Marxism is the division between base and superstructure, and its idea that political decisions are the effects, but not the causes of economic change. Class analysis comes to the fore only in two papers, one by John Mattausch, the other by Graham Day. Mattauch's unconcealed nostalgia for mass working class support sits unhappily with the fact that the majority of activists are state class radicals. Other papers are more interested in peace movements than in peace. They make no reference to the actual effect of such movements, for example, in contributing to the pre-war strategy of Adolph Hitler. Only one paper offers a definition of war. This occurs as a prelude to David Riches' discussion of the peaceful Eskimos. War, according to Riches, is the authorized employment of physical force against other persons, as means by which groups competing for control of public resources and benefits attempt to influence the outcome of the competition in their favor.

Reviews the book "Advances in Monetary Economics," edited by David Currie.

The article reviews the book "Monetary Economics--Readings on Current Issues," by William Gibson and George Kaufman.

The article reviews the book "Problems in the International Comparison of Economic Accounts."

The article reviews the book "India Policy Forum," by Otmar Issing and Gaspar Martins, edited by Suman Bery, Barry Bosworth and Arvind Panagriya.

Reviews the book 'Innovation Policy in a Global Economy,' by Daniele Archibugi.

Reviews the book 'Village-Level Modernization in Southeast Asia: The Political Economy of Rice and Water,' edited by Geoffrey B. Hainsworth.

Reviews the non-fiction book 'The Economics of Small Firms: A European Challenge,' edited by Z. Acs and D. B. Audretsch.

Reviews the book 'Psychological Economics: Development, Tensions, Prospects,' edited by Peter E. Earl.

Reviews the book 'Economic Psychology: Intersections in Theory and Application,' edited by Alan J. MacFadyen and Heather W. MacFadyen.

Reviews the book 'Economic Adjustment and Exchange Rates in Developing Countries,' edited by Sebastian Edwards and Liaquat Ahamed.

Despite the frequent criticisms of the forecasting achievements of large scale econometric models their makers, undiscouraged, continue to nibble at the problem of increasing the realism, accuracy, and reliability of their forecasts as compared with those of naive models. Medium and long-term models are often found to perform the most satisfactorily in practice and seem therefore to be well-suited for exploratory studies. This volume describes some of the ongoing efforts, results, and future plans of a group of economists in the development of a medium term (five year) projections model of the Swedish economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Money, Trade, and Economic Growth."

Reviews the book "Economic Theory and Econometrics," by L. Klein.

Reviews the book 'Spatial Choices and Processes,' edited by Manfred M. Fischer, Peter Nijkamp and Yorgos Y. Papageorgiou.

The article reviews the book "Volatility and Growth: The Clarendon Lectures in Economics," by Philippe Aghion and Abhijit Banerjee.

The article reviews the book "The Reluctant Economist: Perspectives on Economics, Economic History, and Demography," by Richard A. Easterlin.

Reviews the book "Land Economics Research," edited by Joseph Ackerman, Marion Clawson and Marshall Harris.

The article reviews the book "Economics and the Future: Time and Discounting in Private and Public Decision Making," by D. J. Pannell and S. G. M. Schilizzi.

This article provides information on the submissions received by the journal Economica, in the year to June 30, 2003. Twenty-five papers were accepted and 23 were rejected for possible resubmission. Average time to rejection is 3 months. The fast turn-around time of papers is attributed to the electronic handling of submissions. To maintain this, the journal will only accept electronic submissions from January 1, 2004. Furthermore, 23 book reviews were published between June 2002 and June 2003.

Reviews the book 'Natural Resource Economics: Selected Papers,' by S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup and edited by Richard C. Bishop and Stephen O. Andersen.

Reviews the book "Modelling the Economy," edited by G.A. Renton.

Reviews the book 'Modelling the International Transmission Mechanism,' edited by John A. Sawyer.

Reviews two books on economics. 'The Economics of the Single European Act,' edited by George McKenzie and Anthony Venables; 'Economics for the New Europe,' edited by Anthony Atkinson and Renato Brunetta.

One of the most gracious gestures of respect on the retirement of an eminent person is the revelation of a sense of diminution (and perhaps void) caused by the event. When the case on hand involves a leading academic, colleagues and former students gather in a Festschrift to reminisce, and reassure the scholar about the lasting value of his contributions to the scientific community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Per Jacobsson was not only a distinguished economist and banker, but a forceful and colorful personality. The present volume conveys a clear impression of his views, but little of the force and color of the man. An earlier collection of Jacobsson's speeches and papers was published several years ago as Some Monetary Problems-International and National (Oxford University Press, 1958); the confusing similarity of titles will doubtless bedevil readers and librarians for years to come. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews two books on economy and environment. "Estimating Economic Values for Nature: Methods for Nonmarket Valuation," by V. Kerry Smith; "Environmental Options: Accounting for Sustainability," by Kimio Uno.

Reviews the book "Issues in Monetary Economics: Proceedings of the 1972 Money Study Group Conference," edited by H.G. Johnson and A.R. Nobay.

The article reviews the book "Modern Finance and Industrial Economics," by Thomas E. Copeland.