Book Reviews

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Book reviewed in this article:Peter Hayes and Kirk Smith (eds), The Global Greenhouse Regime:Martin Carnoy, Manuel Castells, Stephen S. Cohen, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, The New Global Economy in the Information Age: Reflections on our Changing WorldKeith Griffin and Azizur Rahman Khan, Globalization and the Developing World: An essay on the international dimensions of development in the post‐Cold War eraPiers Blaikie, Terry Cannon, Ian Davis and Ben Wisner, At Risk. Natural hazards, people's vulnerability, and disasters.David G. Westendorff and Dharam Ghai (eds), Monitoring Social Progress in the 1990sPer Lind, Computerization in Developing Countries: Model and Reality.Olav Stokke (ed.), Evaluating Development Assistance: Policies and Performance.P. O. Pedersen, A. Sverrisson and M. P. van Dijk (eds), Flexible Specialization.Edward G. Goetz and Susan E. Clarke (eds), The New Localism: Comparative urban politics in a global era.Richard D. Bingham and Robert Mier (eds), Theories of Local Economic Development: Perspectives from across the disciplines.‘Atu Emberson‐Bain’, Labour and Gold in Fiji. Cambridge:Brij V. Lai, Broken Waves: A History of the Fiji Islands in the Twentieth Century.Yanrui Wu and Xiaohe Zhang (eds), Chinese Economy in Transition. Canberra:Linda Low et al. (eds), Challenge and Response:David R. Phillips (ed.), Ageing in East and South‐East Asia, Research Studies in Gerontology.Nandini Dasgupta, Petty Trading in the Third World: The Case of Calcutta.Stanley Lalta and Marie Freckleton (eds) Caribbean Economic Development—The first generation, Kingston, Jamaica:Peter Wade, Blackness and Race Mixture. The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia. Baltimore and London:Sarah A. Radcliffe and Sallie Westwood (eds) ‘VIVA’, Women and Popular Protest in Latin America.Javier Gonzalo Alcalde, Development, Decay and Social Conflict.Thomas Carothers, In the Name of Democracy: US Policy Toward Latin America in the Reagan Years. Berkeley:Jeffry A. Frieden, Debt, Development and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America,Aderanti Adepoju and Christine Oppong (eds), Gender, Work and Population in Sub‐Saharan Africa. London: James Currey;Eliphas G. Mukonoweshuro, Colonialism, Class Formation and Underdevelopment in Sierra Leone.J. S. Eades, Strangers and Traders: Yoruba Migrants, Markets and the State in Northern Ghana.C. R. Cutshall, Justice for the People. Community Courts and Legal Transformation in Zimbabwe.Yusif A. Sayigh, Elusive Development: From Dependence to Self‐Reliance in the Arab Region.Jean‐Pierre Potier, Pierro Sraffa—unorthodox economist (1898–1983). A Biographical Essay.