Greenwood Publishing Group

Bookwatch, The, April, 2005

88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881

David E. O'Connor's Basics Of Economics (0313325200, $75.00) will easily serve as a college-level text: it provides a fine history of the rise of modern capitalism and other economic movements, considers the evolution of the business world from local to global, and examines world finance, savings institutions and investments to probe the roots of economic trends and activities. Excellent and in-depth, Basics Of Economics is not to be missed. Jennifer C. Boettcher and Leonard M. Gaines' Industry Research Using The Economic Census: How To Ifnd It, How To Use It (157356351X, $85.00) provides an important resource reference to the US Census explaining its concepts, methods, and data sources with an eye to relating Census results to student research in economics. From changes between the 1997 and 2002 census to reports and special publications relating to it, this provides an important research 'bible' of detail.