Book Reviews : William P. Hachten and C. Anthony Giffard, The Press and Apartheid: Repression and Propaganda in South Africa. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1984, pp. xvi, 336, $ 22.50 (cloth)

1986 ◽  
Vol 27 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 135-136
Author(s):  
W. Mills
2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 1021-1023

Enghin Atalay of University of Wisconsin-Madison reviews “Financial and Macroeconomic Connectedness: A Network Approach to Measurement and Monitoring”, by Francis X. Diebold and Kamil Yilmaz. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Presents a framework for defining, measuring, and monitoring connectedness, focusing on connectedness in financial and related macroeconomic environments. Discusses measuring and monitoring financial and macroeconomic connectedness; US asset classes; major US financial institutions; global stock markets; sovereign bond markets; foreign exchange markets; assets across countries; and global business cycles. Diebold is Paul F. and Warren S. Miller Professor of Economics and Professor of Finance and Statistics in the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Yilmaz is Professor of Economics at Koç University.”


2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 809-818

Jeffrey G. Williamson of Harvard University and University of Wisconsin reviews “Economic Development in the Americas since 1500: Endowments and Institutions” by Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. The EconLit abstract of the reviewed work begins: Eleven papers explore differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin America and mainland North America, specifically the United States and Canada, and consider how relative differences in growth over time are related to differences in the institutions that developed in different economies. Papers discuss paths of development -- an overview; factor endowments and institutions; the role of institutions in shaping factor endowments; the evolution of suffrage institutions; the evolution of schooling – 1800–1925; inequality and the evolution of taxation; land and immigration policies; politics and banking systems; five hundred years of European colonization; institutional and noninstitutional explanations of economic development; and institutions in political and economic development. Engerman is John H. Munro Professor of Economics and Professor of History at the University of Rochester. The late Sokoloff was Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Bibliography; index.


2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-162

Harry P. Bowen of Queens University of Charlotte reviews “The Development and Testing of Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Models: A Review” by Robert E. Baldwin,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Reviews the theoretical development of the basic insights of Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin into the modern factor-content trade model and the results of empirical tests of Heckscher-Ohlin models. Discusses the development of Heckscher-Ohlin trade models; early empirical tests of the Heckscher-Ohlin proposition; multicountry, multifactor tests; and testing for Stolper-Samuelson, Rybczynski, and factor price equalization effects. Baldwin is Hilldale Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Index.”


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