Business Services Industry
Publications received
Monthly Labor Review, August, 1999
Markholt, Ottillie, Maritime Solidarity: Pacific Coast Unionism, 1929-1938. Tacoma, WA, Pacific Coast Maritime History Committee, 1998, 461 pp., bibliography. $19.95.
Management and organization theory
Hao, Li, Conflicts and Common Interests in Committees. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 47 pp. (Working Paper 7158.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.
Harris, Jim and Joan Brannick, Finding and Keeping Great Employees. New York, AMACOM, 1999, 222 pp. $24.95.
Monetary and fiscal policy
Coggins, Bruce, Does Financial Deregulation Work: A Critique of Free Market Approaches. Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 1998, 230 pp., bibliography. $80.
Hall, Robert E., The Stock Market and Capital Accumulation. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 32 pp. (Working Paper 7180.) $10, per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.
Prices and living conditions
Wood, Geoffrey, ed., Money, Prices, and the Real Economy. Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 1998, 125 pp, $65.
Productivity and technological change
Abernathy, Frederick H. and others, A Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing--Lessons from the Apparel and Textile Industries. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999, 368 pp. $35.
Bartel, Ann P. and Ann E. Harrison, Ownership Versus Environment: Why are Public Sector Firms Inefficient? Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 50 pp. (Working Paper 7043.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.
Benkard, C. Lanier Learning and Forgetting: The Dynamics of Aircraft Production. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 56 pp. (Working Paper 7127.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.
Bernard, Andrew B. and J. Bradford Jensen, Exporting and Productivity. Cambridge, MA National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 37 pp. (Working Paper 7135.) $10 per copy plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.
Berndt, Ernst R., Robert S. Pindyck, and Pierre Azoulay, Network Effects and Diffusiion in Pharmaceutical Markets: Antiulcer Drugs. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 31 pp. (Working Paper 7024.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.
Bresnahan, Timothy F., Erik Brynjolfsson, and Lorin M. Hitt, Information Technology, Workplace Organization, and the Demand for Skilled Labor: Firm-Level Evidence. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 43 pp. (Working Paper 7136.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.
Christiano, Lawrence J. and Robert Vigfusson, Maximum Likelihood in the Frequency Domain: A Time to Build Example. Cambridge, MA, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 1999, 15 pp. (Working Paper 7027.) $10 per copy, plus $10 for postage and handling outside the United States.
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