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Abstract. Vritz Redlich (1892–1978) played a leading role in the development of the analytic approach in history and in establishing the new institutional history that combines entrepreneurial and business historv and sociology. A member, in economics, of the German historical school, he spent 16 years in the chemical industry before the triumph of Nazism forced him to emigrate from Germany in 1936. After teaching at various colleges until 1942, he spent the rest of his life doing research in the libraries of Harvard University, producing several notable works in economic history, including a classical study of American banking, and pioneering in entrepreneurial history.

Abstract. Fritz Redlich (1892‐1978) played a leading role in the development of the analytic approach in history and in establishing the new institutional history that combines entrepreneurial and business history and sociology. A member, in economics, of the German historical school, he spent 16 years in the chemical industry before the triumph of Nazism forced him to emigrate from Germany in 1936. After teaching at various colleges until 1942, he spent the rest of his life doing research in the libraries of Harvard University, producing several notable works in economic history, including a classical study of American banking, and pioneering in entrepreneurial history.

The dramatised documentary Death of a Princess, first shown on British television on 9 April, caused a political and diplomatic storm, with Saudi Arabian protests leading to the expulsion of the British Ambassador from Jeddah and to strenuous efforts by official and business representatives to prevent the film being screened in a number of other countries. In this interview with John Bonus, a writer on Middle East affairs, Anthony Thomas Princess and rebuts Saudi charges that his film was 'anti-Islamic'. Q. What gave you the idea of making the film in the first place?

The strident first-round offensive in the Carter administration's human rights crusade is over. In retrospect the first phase of the human rights movement had a noble purpose, yet failed to capture and hold the high ground of national policy and public support. It failed as national policy because it did not comprehend the fundamental relationship between human rights, prosperity, international trade, and investment. Public support declined because asymmetric, therefore hypocritical, publicity of human rights violations concentrated on minor blemishes on the record of U.S. business abroad while ignoring more terrible disfigurements of human rights.

The concept of outreach has become associated with public service to
community, media and business interests, to public and private educational
institutions, and to African and Africanist academics at home and abroad
lacking access to resources to pursue their studies and research. This paper
is concerned chiefly with the role of colleges and universities in African
studies outreach, which is not to minimize the importance of other agents of
change, private and public, committed to the task of improving the quality
and quantity of our understanding and knowledge of African affairs.

Iranian village accounting, which we studied by translating and analyzing the records of a trading house in the early twentieth century, was relatively unaffected by Western contact. The records were kept on a slightly modified cash basis, single-entry, with little distinction between business and personal transactions; this mirrors accounting practices in many "developing" societies. What was indeed unique was a distinctive set of numerical symbols, comprehensible to but a few initiates in each community, and whose primary goal was secrecy and privacy of the records. The system was used well before 1900 and is still in use in some rural areas today.

AGENCY: Industry and Trade Administration (formerly Domestic and Innational Business Administration), reau of Trade Regulation, Dcpartnt of Commerce.The agency is amending the Restrictive Trade Practices or boycotts part of the Export Administion Regulations (Part 369, Tide 15, of Federal Regulations). The mges are being made to implement de II of the Export Administration lendments of 1977 (Pub. L. S5-52). turned into law on June 22, 1977. In leral, these regulations prohibit united States persons from complying each specified foreign boycott requirements, including the furnishing of boycott-related information.

Foreign aid is seldom seen by bourgeois economics for what it actually is — one method by which capital and capitalism are internationalized. Bourgeois economists argue over aid's effectiveness in promoting development, while in business and political circles its defenders make the only really telling arguments; that markets and resources are secured, and a climate conducive to world wide private investment is created and strengthened. Those arguments fit quite well into the Marxist concept of imperialism, an analysis of which is in cluded here, while a study of U.S. aid flows from 1958 to 1974 confirms such a hypothesis.

Our view of the world economy has grown gloomier during the last three months. It has become increasingly clear that we (and, far more significantly, governments) had underestimated the level of demand that would be needed to induce industry to add substantially to its productive capacity and, in Western Europe, to cease to reduce its work force. The revival of business investment has been generally weak, while unemployment has been falling more slowly in the United States and rising rapidly in Canada and Western Europe, thus further depressing the expectations of consumers and investors alike.

ABSTRACTThis paper illustrates how multivariate spectral analysis can be used to analyze complex, dynamic, business systems. Important temporal aspects of multiple time series are captured in the frequency domain by the coherence, phase, and gain statistics. A computer simulation of a time domain model produces sample results which demonstrate how the timing relations between two series can be reversed when the effects common to both series are partialled out. Finally, an empirical multivariate analysis of beef prices is used to determine the timing relations among prices at different levels of the production‐distribution system.

This report discusses the problem of how to organise the activities of the firm in order to achieve efficient logistics performance. In reviewing over 50 books and articles (professional and academic) published before 1975, the author identifies seven major themes, ranging from timing the establishment of logistics departments to modern theories of "matrix" organisations. The results of a survey conducted by the author in 1974 are presented, and the difficulties of developing definitive conclusions or guides to action in this area are discussed. (This report was written while the author was a graduate student at the Harvard Business School.)

Earthquake prediction is a new technology soon to be added to the other adjustments which can be used by a community to cope with the earthquake hazard. Governmental and business organisations will be faced with new challenges when a specific earthquake prediction is issued for their area. Research on organisational response to such a prediction indicates that there will be significant positive and negative consequences. With an extended lead time of several years the risk of death and injury can be brought to near zero but the resulting local economic recession will be of major proportions.

The formidable problems of estimating stable econometric relationships explaining capital expenditure which are usable for forecasting purposes are well known. These are attested by the fact that despite the very large number of regression studies in the field no clear consensus has yet emerged among economists as to the determinants of investment behaviour. Given the difficulties of econometric model-building it is hardly surprising that in practice considerable reliance should be placed on the concrete evidence about future investment plans afforded by business surveys when making short-term forecasts of investment.

Book reviewed in this article:Elites and Power in British Society. Edited by Philip Stanworth and Anthony Giddens.Front‐Bench Opposition. By R. M. Punnett.Too Serious a Business. By Donald Cameron Watt.The Revolutionary Left in Spain 1914–1923. By Gerald H. Meaker.The Dying Lion: Feudalism and Modernization in Ethiopia. By Patrick Gilkes.Essays on The Study of Urban Politics. Edited by Ken Young.Politics, Power and Bureaucracy in France: The Administrative Elite. By Ezra N. Suleiman.The Russian Tradition. By Tibor Szamuely.The Good SoldierŠvejk, and His Fortunes in the World War. By Jaroslav Hašek. A New and Unabridged Translation by Cecil Parrott.

Schedule for the 80th annual conference of the Minnesota Library Association held November 13- 14 at the Thunderbird Hotel, Bloominton, Minnesota. The theme was "Plan Your Future or Live in a World Designed by Others." General session topics included "MLA Legislation: An Open Discussion," "Planning for Statewide Library Services," and "MIDLNET and Statewide Library Services." Also included are notes from the "MLA Legislation: An Open Discussion" general session, a proposed amendment to the MLA Bylaws, Media Round Table and Government Documents Roundtable conference activities, a MLA Technical Services Section business meeting agenda, and conference promotional letters.