Contribution and Reward, by Mogens V. Hermann (Exposition, $6.50). One of the goals of this work is the “merging of economics with geography, history, and psychology.” With astonishing clarity and relevance the author shows what he means, using the equatorial civilizations and economies as his laboratory. Through Development Geography to Psycho-political Mechanism to Abstract Warfare to the Analysis of Chaos to Forced Industrialization, this is a trail-blazing book, well worth the attention of anyone who has ever wondered about foreign aid, central economic planning, or pre-mature industrialization. The author has worked in a dozen countries around the world from Honduras to Ethiopia; was born in Denmark; writes idiomatic English; is a monetary economist and statistician; and considers the problems of economics as Roepke considers them: a portion of human life, to be treated by men who are interested not in economics alone but in human economics—including geography, history, psychology. This is a breath of fresh air. Let those who have noses breathe it.
W. F. RICKENBACKER
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