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Source: Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Jun., 2002), pp. 714-716
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Shenzhen in China's economic transition; relevant management practices in control of urban

growth; against harbor reclamation in Hong
Kong; a partnership approach to urban renewal
in Brisbane; railways and reurbanization in
Perth; creating a livable city in Kanazawa
through historical preservation; continuity and
change in Macau's historic landscape during a
period of transition; Lisbon and Expo98; planning issues and the new generation technology
economy-comparative regional analysis and the
case of the U.S. national capital region; using
electronic commerce in planning for successful
urban and regional development. Williams is with
the Department of Geography, Michigan State
University. Stimson is with the School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, University of
Queensland. No index.
See also: Book number JEL 2002-0560

Z Other Special Topics

Zi CULTURAL ECONOMICS

CHAI, SUN-KI. Choosing an identity: A general model

of preference and belief formation. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 2001. Pp. viii, 344.
$52.50. ISBN 0-472-10701-1. JEL 2002-0849
Provides a general model of preference and
belief.formation, integrating it with a model of
rationality to generate a unified model of preferences, beliefs, and actions. Assesses the
strengths and weaknesses of conventional rational choice theory. Surveys various alternatives
to conventional rational choice. Presents a new
model of preference and belief formation that
draws on ideas from a range of disciplines, including psychological theories of motivation and
cognition, sociological theories of value and
identity formation, and philosophical theories
of coherence and higher-order rationality. Uses
the model of action to analyze major questions
in the analysis of comparative development,
considering the origins of economic ideology
among the leaders of ex-colonies; what factors
determine the boundaries of ethnic identity in
developing countries and how these boundaries
affect collective political action; and the causal
relationship between socioeconomic change,

political culture, and levels of political violence.

For each question, compares the hypotheses
generated by the model to those generated by
existing rational-choice theories. Chai is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of
Hawaii. Index.

FISCHER, EDWARD F. Cultural logics and global

economies: Maya identity in thought and practice.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Pp. xii,
287. $50.00, cloth; $22.95, paper. ISBN 0-29272530-2, cloth; 0-292-72534-5, pbk.
JEL 2002-0850

Examines the tensions and synergies that

arise from the conjuncture of national panMaya identity politics in Guatemala and lived
experience in Tecp'an and Patzuin, two predominantly Kaqchikel Maya towns. Introduces the
contexts of daily life in Tecpain and Patzuin. Examines Guatemalan political economies and the
rise of national pan-Maya activism. Explores
Guatemala's changing position in global structures of political economy. Discusses how Maya
leaders have taken advantage of post-cold war
ideological shifts to colonize new political space
for themselves in state and global systems. Illustrates how Maya leaders have actively and
tactically leveraged emerging patterns of global
political and economic relations to their own
ends, by focusing on pan-Mayanist (re)constructions of salient cultural symbols such as dress
and language. Examines Maya identity as lived
experience in Tecpain and Patzuin, discussing
cultural models of heart and soul; hearth, kin,
and communities; local forms of cultural creativity, self-expression, and ethnic resistance;
and economic change and cultural continuity.
Fischer is Assistant Professor of Anthropology
at Vanderbilt University. Bibliography; index.
GALENSON, DAVID W. Painting outside the lines: Patterns of creativity in modern art. Cambridge and
London: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp.
xvi, 250. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-00612-7.
JEL 2002-0851
Studies the relationship between age and productivity among modern painters, focusing on
two groups: fifty painters born from 1796
through 1900 who lived and worked in France,
and seventy-five American painters born from
1870 through 1940. Analyzes the relationship
between the age at which an artist produced a
work and the quality of that work, as indicated
by the price at which the work has sold in recent auctions, the use of the work as an illustra-

tion in surveys of modern paintings, and the

inclusion of the work in recent museum retrospectives. Provides evidence of two dramatic
shifts: in both Paris during the late nineteenth

century and New York in the mid-twentieth,

there was a tendency over time for artists to
produce their most valuable work at progressively younger ages. Argues that all important
modern artists have been innovators and that

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they are important because they are innovators.

history and prehistory, and addresses whether

Distinguishes two types of innovators-experi-

exchange was an early agent of human evolution

or a mere de novo artifact of modern civiliza-

mental and conceptual innovators-and explains why artists with different approaches

tion. Discusses exchange in human and non-

have made important contributions at different

human societies; junctions between classical

ages. Examines the chronology of the two periods, discussing art in Paris from Edouard
Manet to Joan Miro and art in New York from
John Marin to Minimalism. Studies the interrelationships among artists, both within and

economics and classical Darwinism; evolution-

across generations. Provides an explanation of

the changing careers of modern artists. Galenson is Professor of Economics at the University
of Chicago. Bibliography; index.
LIN, NAN; COOK, KAREN AND BURT, RONALD S., eds.

Social capital: Theory and research. Sociology and

Economics: Controversy and Integration series.

ary implications of the division of labor; the

feeding ecology; the origins of nepotistic exchange; baboon speciation versus human spe-

cialization; the human or protohuman departure from the feed-as-you-go strategy and
transition to hunting and gathering; the origins
of market exchange; the domestication of fire in
relation to market exchange; the Upper Paleolithic and other creative explosions; and limiting
and facilitating factors in the transition to
agriculture. Ofek is in the Department of
Economics at Binghamton University. Index.

New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 2001. Pp. xii, 333.

$57.95, cloth; $28.95, paper. ISBN 0-202-306437, cloth; 0-202-30644-5, pbk. JEL 2002-0852
Twelve papers, first presented at a conference held in October-November 1998 at Duke
University, investigate social capital from a
social-network perspective and provide a forum
for ongoing research programs initiated by
some sociologists. Papers explore building a
network theory of social capital; structural holes
versus network closures as social capital; measurement techniques for investigations of social
capital; social capital in employee referral networks; interpersonal ties, social capital, and employer staffing practices; the value of social

capital to employers and employees; the influence of social capital on the start of the occupational career; social capital as social mechanisms and collective assets-the example of
status auctions among colleagues; social networks and social capital in extreme environments; network capital in a multilevel worldgetting support from personal communities;
guanxi capital and social eating in Chinese cities; and change and stability in social network
resources-the case of Hungary under transformation. Lin is at Duke University. Cook is at
Stanford University. Burt is at the University of
Chicago. Index.

OFEK, HAIM. Second nature: Economic origins of human evolution. Cambridge; New York and Mel-

bourne: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp.

254. $74.95, cloth; $27.95, paper. ISBN 0-52162399-5, cloth; 0-521-62534-3, pbk.
JEL 2002-0853

Explores the root causes of the pervasive human disposition to engage in exchange and the
evolutionary consequences of this disposition in

PRAZNIAK, ROXANN AND DIRLIK, ARIF, eds. Places

and politics in an age of globalization. Lanham,

Md. and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.
Pp. xiv, 329. $80.00, cloth; $24.95, paper. ISBN
0-7425-0038-1, cloth; 0-7425-0039-X, pbk.
JEL 2002-0854

Thirteen papers, most presented at a conference on "Asia-Pacific Identities: Culture and

Identity Formation in the Age of Global Capi-

tal" at Duke University, April 1995; address the

issues of contemporary cultural identity in relation to the politics of place. Explores cultural
identity and the politics of place (Arif Dirlik
and Roxann Prazniak); globalism and the politics of place (Dirlik); indigenous struggles and
the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie (Jonathan
Friedman); transnational capital and local community in the making of contemporary Asian
America (Dirlik); Chinese illegals are American
labor (Peter Kwong); the impact of race/
ethnicity, citizenship, and gender in workingclass solidarity (Margaret M. Zamudio); identity
formation in postcolonial Melanesia (Geoffrey
M. White); the indigenization of ethnicity
(Elizabeth Rata); place, economy, and culture
in a postdevelopment era (Arturo Escobar);
globalization and environmental resistance politics (James H. Mittelman); political organizing
in the land of the Great Spirit, Tunkashila
(Prazniak); transcommunal roots of coordination in the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) model of
cooperation and diversity (John Brown Childs);
and rethinking difference and equality-women
and the politics of place (Wendy Harcourt).
Prazniak is Elliot Professor of History at
Hampden-Sydney College. Dirlik is Professor
of History at Duke University. Index.

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SAEGERT, SUSAN; THOMPSON, J. PHILLIP AND WAR-

for second-order elliptic equations; strong

REN, MARK R., eds. Social capital and poor com-

uniqueness for fourth-order elliptic differential

munities. Ford Foundation Series on Asset Building. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001. Pp.
xviii, 333. $39.95. ISBN 0-87154-733-3.
JEL 2002-0855

operators; second microlocalization methods

for degenerate Cauchy-Riemann equations; a

Garding inequality on a manifold with a boundary; some necessary conditions for hyperbolic

Twelve papers, originally presented at the

systems; strong unique continuation property

conference "Social Capital and Poor Communities: Building and Using Social Assets to Com-

for first order elliptic systems; observability of

the Schrodinger equation; unique continuation
from sets of positive measure; and the controllability of linear and semilinear heat equations.

bat Poverty" held in March 1999, examine the

contributions that social capital can make to
combating poverty and fostering the development of poor communities. Papers address the

Colombini is at the University of Pisa. Zuily is at

the University of Paris South, Orsay. No index.

role of social capital in combating poverty; social

capital and the culture of power; social capital

FERNHOLZ, LUISA TURRIN; MORGENTHALER, STE-

in America's poor rural communities; insights

PHAN AND STAHEL, WERNER, eds. Statistics in genetics and in the environmental sciences. Trends in

on crime and public safety from communitylevel perspectives on social capital; social capital and community economic development;
housing, social capital, and poor communities;
social capital, poverty, and community health;

transforming urban schools through investments in the social capital of parents; social
capital, religious institutions, and poor commu-

Mathematics. Basel and Boston: Birkhauser, 2001.

Pp. xiv, 183. $74.95. ISBN 3-7643-6575-7.
JEL 2002-0857

Twelve papers presented at the Workshop on

Statistics and the Sciences, held at the Centro
Stefano Franscini in Ascona, Switzerland, during May 1999, focus on statistics in genetics and

nities; capitalizing on labor's capital; social capi-

the environmental sciences. Papers discuss sta-

tal, intervening institutions, and political power;

and social capital, political participation, and the
urban community. Saegert is at the City University of New York Graduate School and University Center. Thompson is at Columbia University.

tistical interaction with quantitative geneticists

Warren is at Fordham University. Index.

See also: Book numbers JEL 2002-0398, 20020763

Related Disciplines
COLOMBINI, FERRUCCIO AND ZUILY, CLAUDE, eds.

Carleman estimates and applications to uniqueness and control theory. Progress in Nonlinear
Differential Equations and Their Applications,
vol. 46. Basel and Boston: Birkhauser, 2001. Pp.
vi, 211. $89.95. ISBN 0-8176-4230-7.

to enhance impact from plant breeding programs; outlier resistance, standardization, and
modeling issues for DNA microarray data; variance components estimation with uncertainty;
robust estimation for chemical concentration

data subject to detection limits; risk assessment

of low dose exposure to carcinogens; a stochastic model of carcinogenesis; statistical modeling
to answer key questions in atmospheric chemistry; space debris in a two dimensional orbit; a
robust approach to common principal components; a robustified version of sliced inverse
regression; similarities between location depth
and regression depth; and approximate ROEestimates for linear regression based on subsampling of elemental sets. Fernholz is at Temple University. Morgenthaler and Stahel are at the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. No index.

JEL 2002-0856

Fourteen papers focus on new results on

Carleman estimates and their applications to
uniqueness and controllability of partial differential equations and systems. Papers discuss
stabilization for the wave equation on exterior

domains; the Carleman estimate and decay rate

of the local energy for the Neumann problem of
elasticity; microlocal defect measures for systems; strong uniqueness for Laplace and biLaplace operators in the limit case; stabilization
for the semilinear wave equation in bounded
domains; recent results on unique continuation

New Journals
Advances in Macroeconomics

Published electronically (www.bepress.com/

bejm/advances) by Berkeley Electronic Press on
an ongoing, as-needed basis with a target of two
or three issues per calendar year. Volume 1,
no. 2 (2001) includes three papers that discuss
economic growth over the very long run and
whether an Industrial Revolution was inevitable; patterns of exchange, fiat money, and

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