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  1. the University of Texas at Austin, USA

    W. W. Rostow (Rex G. Baker Jr. Professor of Political Economy)

  2. the University of Minnesota, USA

    Harold W. Chase (professor of political science)

  3. Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

    Stanton K. Tefft (chairman of the Department of Anthropology)

  4. the University of California at Davis, USA

    Marc Pilisuk (professor of community psychology and chairperson of the Department of Applied Behavioral Sciences)

  5. Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA

    Beth B. Hess (professor of sociology at the County College of Morris (New Jersey) and lecturer in sociology)

  6. Douglass College, Rutgers University, USA

    Beth B. Hess (professor of sociology at the County College of Morris (New Jersey) and lecturer in sociology)

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He served in various capacities in the administrations of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and is the author of numerous books, including the recent Why the Poor Get Richer and the Rich Slow Down: Essays in the Marshallian Long Period.His article “Power and Economics” appeared in Society18:4.

former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs in the Carter administration. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including the recent American Government from a Comparative Perspective.

He is the editor of the recently published Secrecy: A Cross-Cultural Perspective.

He is the author of International Conflict and Social Policyand co-editor of several books, including, with Phyllis Pilisuk, How We Lost the War on Poverty.

She is the editor of Growing Old in America,published by Transaction Books, and co-author, with Elizabeth Markson and Peter Stein, of Self in Society,forthcoming from Macmillan.

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Rostow, W.W., Chase, H.W., Tefft, S.K. et al. Books in review. Society 18, 100–110 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02701334

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