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Abstract Business Cycles: A Theoretical, Historical, and Statistical Analysis of the Capitalist Process, by Joseph A. Schumpeter. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1939. Vol. I—xvi, 448 pp. Vol. II—ix, 449–1095 pp. $10.00. Reviewed by Oskar Morgenstern Turning Points in Business Cycles, by Leonard P. Ayres. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1939. xiii, 214 pp. $2.75. Reviewed by J. Philip Wernette Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control, by Walter A. Shewhart with the editorial assistance of W. Edwards Deming. Washington, D. C.: Department of Agriculture Graduate School. 1939. ix, 155 pp. Reviewed by Joseph Manuele Mathematical Analysis for Economists, by R. G. D. Allen. New York and London: The Macmillan Company. London School of Economics and Political Science, Studies in Statistics and Scientific Method, No. 3. 1938. xv, 548 pp. $9.00. Reviewed by Theodore O. Yntema Mathematical Tables, Volume VII, The Probability Integral, by W. F. Sheppard. New York: The Macmillan Company. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Published for the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 1939. xi, 34 pp. $2.50. Reviewed by Helen M. Walker Statistik als ein Erkenntnismittel der Wirtschaftspolitik, by Fritz Huhle. Jena, Germany: Gustav Fischer. 1938. vi, 158 pp. RM 6. Reviewed by Eugen Altschul Consumer Expenditures in the United States, Estimates for 1935–36. Washington, D. C.: National Resources Committee. 1939. ix, 195 pp. 50 cents. Reviewed by Elizabeth W. Gilboy Studies in Income and Wealth, Volume Three, by the Conference on Research in National Income and Wealth. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research. 1939. xxiii, 479 pp. $3.50. Reviewed by Dwight B. Yntema Normal and Abnormal International Capital Transfers, by Marco Fanno. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. November, 1939. xi, 120 pp. $2.00. Reviewed by Clifford L. James International Monetary Organisation, by Michael A. Heilperin. Paris: League of Nations, International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation. New York: Columbia University Press. 1939. 61 pp. 75 cents. Reviewed by James D. Paris Golden Avalanche, by Frank D. Graham and Charles R. Whittlesey. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1939. xv, 228 pp. $2.50. Reviewed by R. J. Saulnier Marketing Burned-Clay Products, by A. Hamilton Chute. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University. June, 1939. xx, 374 pp. Reviewed by J. F. Pyle Price Maintenance in Knoxville, Tennessee, under the Tennessee Fair Trade Act of 1937, by Charles W. Lewis. Knoxville: University of Tennessee. November, 1939. 64 pp. Reviewed by Arend E. Boer The Economics of Building, by Herbert W. Robinson. London: P. S. King & Son, Ltd. 1939. xii, 162 pp. 10s. 6d. Reviewed by Rosalind Tough The Economics of Business Enterprise, by Walter Rautenstrauch. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd. 1939. xiv, 445 pp. $4.00. Reviewed by Robert W. Burgess Capitalism the Creator, the Economic Foundations of Modern Industrial Society, by Carl Snyder. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1940. xii, 473 pp. $3.75. Reviewed by Willford I. King Consumer Credit and Economic Stability, by Rolf Nugent. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 1939. 420 pp. $3.00. Reviewed by John H. Cover A Statistical Study of Credit Unions in New York, by Francis E. Wilcox. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1940. ix, 91 pp. $1.00. Reviewed by Joseph L. Snider De Svenska Privatanställda, en Sociologisk Studie, by Fritz Croner. Stockholm: Kooperativa Förbundet Bokförlag. 1939. 474 pp. Kr. 12:-. Reviewed by Walter A. Lunden Labor in the United States, Basic Statistics for Social Security, by W. S. Woytinsky. New York: Social Science Research Council. A Report Prepared for the Committee on Social Security. 1938. xxii, 333 pp. $3.50. Reviewed by Royal E. Montgomery Old-Age Security, Social and Financial Trends, by Margaret Grant. New York: Social Science Research Council. A Report Prepared for the Committee on Social Security. 1939. xiii, 261 pp. $2.50. Reviewed by Abraham Epstein Predicting Success or Failure in Marriage, by Ernest W. Burgess and Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1939. xxiii, 472 pp. $3.25. Reviewed by Agnes M. H. Byrnes New Facts on Mental Disorders, Study of 89,190 Cases, by Neil A. Dayton. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C Thomas. 1940. xxxiv, 486 pp. $4.50. Reviewed by Harold F. Dorn