George Dalton

Traditional Production in Primitive African Economies

The absence of market dependence, 361. — Production and social organization, 364. — Allocation of factors of production, 365. — Work arrangement, 367. — Disposition of products, 369. — Reciprocity, 370. — Redistribution, 371. — Market exchange, 373. — Colonial impact and the new national economies, 374. —

History, Politics, and Economic Development in Liberia

American and European economists who work in the least developed countries of Africa, Asia, or the Middle East sometimes come away with the feeling of having learned more than they imparted. Nor is this surprising: the minds of economists are often more receptive to development than are the exotic economies in which they now work. In considering problems of underdevelopment and processes of development we learn—inadvertently, as it were—new things about conventional fields of economics and about the developed economies of Europe and America. These feedbacks have been particularly valuable to economic historians who have given us fresh insights into European, Russian, Japanese, and American development as a direct consequence of the present concern with developing the backward countries. Economic history is now wedded to economic development.

MARSHALL SAHLINS. Stone Age Economics. Pp. 348. Chicago, III.: Aldine-Atherton, 1972.

Doctor, in his corporation life tribology. The tuberous root shown on the book jacket-the publisher’s attempt to translate the title into a recognizable image-may evoke more than the publisher bargained for. It suggests a vintner’s offering of a new wine to a wine tasters’ convention: Is it hock, claret, port with a plonk, or a fortified fiddle from Burgogne? The yam on the jacket reclines in a jewel box, symbolic of its importance to the Trobriand

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author bases his account principally upon the correspondence between Cromer and London. The narrative does include a very large amount of direct quotation, but since the principal figures-including Cromer himself-ordinarily wrote lucid, vigorous, and frequently pungent prose, we can hardly complain if the author has chosen to incorporate so much of it in his text. J. KENNETH MCDONALD Associate Professor of International Affairs