In This Review

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

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.

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