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This article takes a note of a few relevant events from the economic fields. It first corrects an error occurred in the June 1955 issue of "The American Economic Review," whereby the name of the nominee for president of the American Economic Association was mistaken as Edwin E. White for Professor Edwin E. Witte. The next note is a preliminary announcement of the program for the Sixty-Eight Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association to be held in New York City, on December 28-30, 1955. Nearly half of the sessions of the program for this year will be centered upon the economic growth of the United States, that is, on the problem of keeping the United States economy moving onward and upward. It further notices on the The first congress of the International Economic Association, to be held in Rome, Italy, from September 6-11, 1956. The next note is on International Committee for Social Sciences Documentation, which was created at the end of 1950 as a result of meetings of experts convened by UNESCO to coordinate and improve existing bibliographic instruments for the social sciences, and the creation of new instruments in this area.

Theoretical and substantive issues concerning the use of social area analysis are addressed by means of comparisons of U. S. and Roman findings. Analysis reveals: (1) the social area approach may be applied to non-U. S. census data; (2) all dimensions of the typology are necessary in Rome as in the U. S.; (3) the test variables describing life styles, living conditions, and work patterns are meaningfully related to the dimensions of the typology; (4) changes in the forms of social differentiation may be related to the relative scale of social organization of a society; (5) social rank and urbanization are more highly related in Rome than in U. S.; (6) distribution of areas in terms of social rank and urbanization is both zonal and sect oral with low social rank areas in the periphery of Rome. Findings present strong evidence for the broad theoretical and analytic utility of this approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]