Capsule Review Winter 1980/81 Issue

The Developing Countries and the World Economic Order; The Structure of the World Economy and Prospects for a New International Economic Order

Lars Anell and Birgitta Nygren, Edited by Ervin Laszlo and Joel Kurtzman
Reviewed by William Diebold, Jr.

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The Developing Countries and the World Economic Order

By Lars Anell and Birgitta Nygren
St. Martin's, 1980
217 pp. $22.50
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The Structure of the World Economy and Prospects for a New International Economic Order

Edited by Ervin Laszlo and Joel Kurtzman
Pergamon Press (for UNITAR/CEESTEM), 1980
118 pp. $15.00
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The Swedish government's Secretariat for Futures Studies lays out the issues of the NIEO in a fairly provocative fashion that challenges a number of received opinions on both sides. In the Laszlo/Kurtzman volume, three quite interesting papers on structural difficulties are followed by studies of the possibilities of changing things.