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Volume 20 - December 1960

The Penetrative Power of the Price System

Patent Medicines: An Early Example of Competitive Marketing

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Precision Valley: The Machine Tool Companies of Springfield, Vermont. By Wayne G. BroehlJr. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1959. Pp. xii, 274. $5.95.

The Roots of Capitalism. By John Chamberlain. (The Library of American Capitalism, Clyde Robinson, Editor.) Princeton, N. J.: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1959. Pp. xiv, 222. $5.50.

Descripcion del Virreinato del Peru: Cronica inedita de Comienzos del Siglo XVII. Edited by Boleslao Lewin. (Instituto de Investigaciones Historicas, Coleccion de Textos y Documentos, Serie B, No. I.) Sante Fe, Argentina: Universidad National del Litoral, 1959. Pp. 140.

The Rhondda Valleys, A Study on Industrial Development from 1800 to the Present Day. By E. D. Lewis. London: Phoenix House, 1959. Pp. 312. 25s.

The Average Workweek As An Economic Indicator. By Gerhard Bry. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., Occasional Paper 69, 1959. Pp. ix, 115. $2.00

The Penetrative Power of the Price System

Report of the Discussion

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Le choléra: la première épidémie du XIXème siècle. Étude collective présentée par Louis Chevalier. (Bibliothèque de la Révolution de 1848.) La Roche-sur-Yon: Imprimerie centrale de l'Ouest, 1958. Pp. xvii 188.

Le drame français: du libre échange au Marché Commun. By Paul Combe. (Collection “Tribune Libre.”) Paris: Plon, 1959. Pp. v, 230. Fr. 690.

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Le libéralisme économique et les pays sous-développés: études sur l'évolution d'une idée. By Frederic Clairmonte. Geneva: Librairie E. Droz and Paris: Librairie Minard, 1958. Études d'Historie Économique, Politique et Sociale XXIII) Pp. 361. Swiss francs 30.

The Brewing Industry in England, 1700–1830. By Peter Mathias. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1959. Pp. 596. $15.

The Household of Edward IV: The Black Book and the Ordinance of 1478. Edited by A. R. Myers. Manchester and New York: University of Manchester, 1959. Pp. xii,315. 45s.

Tomorrow a New World: the New Deal Community Program. By Paul K. Conkin. (Published for the American Historical Association.) Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1959. Pp. ix, 350. $6.00.

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Index to Volume XX

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Business Enterprise in Its Social Setting. By Arthur H. Cole. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1959. Pp. xiii, 286. $5.50.

Economics of the Business Firm: Economics of Decision Making in the Business Enterprise. By Joseph D. Coppock. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1959. Pp. xiii, 366. $6.95.

Risorgimento e capitalismo. By Rosario Romeo. Bari: Editori Laterza, 1959. Pp. 207. L. 1,400. - L'agricoltura in Lombardia dal periodo delle riforme al 1859—struttura, organizzazione sociale e tecnica. By Mario Romani. Milano: Societa Editrice “Vita e Pensiero,” 1957. Pp. 287. L. 2,500.

The Foundations of Capitalism. By Oliver C. Cox. Foreword by Harry Elmer Barnes. New York: Philosophical Library, 1959. Pp. 500. $7.50.

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The Penetrative Power of the Price System

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