Book Reviews : Joyce Kolko, Restructuring the World Economy. New York: Pantheon Books, 1988, pp. 390, $ 14.95 (paper)

1990 ◽  
Vol 31 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 276-277
Author(s):  
M. O. Schapiro
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New York ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Janet Klein ◽  
David Romano ◽  
Michael M. Gunter ◽  
Joost Jongerden ◽  
Atakan İnce ◽  
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Uğur Ümit Üngör, The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 352 pp. (ISBN: 9780199603602).Mohammed M. A. Ahmed, Iraqi Kurds and Nation-Building. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 294 pp., (ISBN: 978-1-137-03407-6), (paper). Ofra Bengio, The Kurds of Iraq: Building a State within a State. Boulder, CO and London, UK: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012, xiv + 346 pp., (ISBN 978-1-58826-836-5), (hardcover). Cengiz Gunes, The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey, from Protest to Resistance, London: Routledge, 2012, 256 pp., (ISBN: 978-0-415—68047-9). Aygen, Gülşat, Kurmanjî Kurdish. Languages of the World/Materials 468, München: Lincom Europa, 2007, 92 pp., (ISBN: 9783895860706), (paper).Barzoo Eliassi, Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden: Quest for Belonging among Middle Eastern Youth, Oxford: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 234 pp. (ISBN: 9781137282071).


2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-216

Elias Dinopoulos of University of Florida reviews “Unified Growth Theory” by Oded Galor. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins: Explores the forces that have generated the transition of the world economy from an epoch of stagnation to an era of sustained economic growth and triggered the emergence of the large disparity in living standards across the globe. Discusses the move from stagnation to growth; the Malthusian theory; theories of the demographic transition; unified growth theory; unified growth theory and comparative development; and human evolution and the process of development. Galor is Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics at Brown University. Name and subject indexes.


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