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BOOKS TO READ

Combines and Rationalisation in Germany.

By DoreEEN WaARRINER, Ph.D. Demy 8yvo. 224 pp. Cloth, ros. 6d.

This book surveys the German combination movement in the critical years 1924-28. It analyses the causes of combine formation, its influence on German economic life and appraises the extent to which it has been attended by rationalisation.

The Economic Policy of Soviet Russia.

By PRoFEssor Pavt HaENsEL, D.LL. Demy 8vo. 190 pp: Cloth, 9s.

Professor Haensel has a thorough inside knowledge of his subject, having held the chair of Public Finance in the University of Moscow for more than twenty-five years, besides occupying other public positions of importance, including membership of the Board of Directors of the State Bank of Russia. From 1921 to 1928 he was President, under the Soviet, of the financial section of the Institute of Economic Research, and he has taken part in the work of several of the Soviet Commissariats, in the State Budget Committee, the Tariffs Committee and other bodies.

British Banks and the Finance of Industry.

By S. Evetyn Tuomas, B.Com. (Lond.). Demy 8vo.

304 pp. Cloth, 12s. 6d. The Week-end Review.—‘ This book serves a valuable function, and is written with great clearness and good judgment. As a guide to the debatable land of

politics, finance and industry in Great Britain since the war, it forms a work of reference which was definitely needed.”

The New Survey of London Life and Labour. Volume One: Forty Years of Change.

Demy 8vo. 438 pp. Portrait, seven Maps, Charts and Diagrams. Buckram, 17s. 6d.

The Times.—“ It remains to commend the maps and charts, particularly the two population maps, in this extraordinarily rich and informative volume, and once more, perhaps, to emphasize the essential statistical nature of its contents, not forgetting the scrupulous way in which the method by which the statistics are used is frequently explained.”’

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