Book Reviews

A Decade of Debt. By Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff. Policy Analyses in International Economics, vol. 95. Washington, D.C.: Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011. Pp. xix, 157. Paper. ISBN 978-0-88132-622-2. Reviewed by Menzie D. Chinn. [Preview]

A Theory of Fairness and Social Welfare. By Marc Fleurbaey and Francois Maniquet. Econometric Society Monographs. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xx, 293. $99.00, cloth; $36.99, paper. ISBN 978-0-521-88742-7, cloth; 978-0-521-71534-8, pbk. Reviewed by Robin Boadway. [Preview]

Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful. By Daniel S. Hamermesh. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xii, 216. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-691-14046-9. Reviewed by Emir Kamenica. [Preview]

Changing Inequality. By Rebecca M. Blank. Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy, vol. 8. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. xiii, 225. $60.00, cloth; $24.95, paper. ISBN 978-0-520-26692-6, cloth; 978-0-520-26693-3, pbk. Reviewed by Richard V. Burkhauser. [Preview]

Economic Origins of Roman Christianity. By Robert B. Ekelund Jr. and Robert D. Tollison. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. xiii, 269. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-226-20002-6. Reviewed by Douglas W. Allen. [Preview]

From Financial Crisis to Global Recovery. By Padma Desai. New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi, 254. $27.50. ISBN 978-0-231-15786-5. Reviewed by Kenneth Kuttner. [Preview]

Global Trade in Services: Fear, Facts, and Offshoring. By J. Bradford Jensen. Washington, D.C.: Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011. Pp. xix, 245. $25.95, paper. ISBN 978-0-88132-601-7. Reviewed by William F. Lincoln. [Preview]

Inside and Outside Liquidity. By Bengt Holmstrom and Jean Tirole. Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 2011. Pp. viii, 254. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-262-01578-3. Reviewed by Arvind Krishnamurthy. [Preview]

Macroeconomics beyond the NAIRU. By Servaas Storm and C. W. M. Naastepad. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. xi, 289. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-674-06227-6. Reviewed by Carolin Pflueger. [Preview]

Maynard's Revenge: The Collapse of Free Market Macroeconomics. By Lance Taylor. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. x, 385. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-674-05046-4. Reviewed by Gerald Epstein. [Preview]

Pollution Limits and Polluters' Efforts to Comply: The Role of Government Monitoring and Enforcement. By Dietrich H. Earnhart and Robert L. Glicksman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, Stanford Economics and Finance, 2011. Pp. viii, 319. Paper. ISBN 978-0-8047-6257-1, cloth; 978-0-8047-6258-8, pbk. Reviewed by Rebecca P. Judge. [Preview]

Something for Nothing: A Novel. By Michael W. Klein. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2011. Pp. viii, 324. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-262-01575-2. Reviewed by Yoram Bauman. [Preview]

The Age of Equality: The Twentieth Century in Economic Perspective. By Richard Pomfret. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, 2011. Pp. xi, 283. $28.95. ISBN 978-0-674-06217-7. Reviewed by Peter Temin. [Preview]

The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700. By Roderick Floud, Robert W. Fogel, Bernard Harris, and Sok Chul Hong. New Approaches to Economic and Social History. NBER Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xxvi, 431. $90.00, cloth; $32.99, paper. ISBN 978-0-521-87975-0, cloth; 978-0-521-70561-5, pbk. Reviewed by Robert A. Margo. [Preview]

The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics. By Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith. New York: Perseus Books, Public Affairs, 2011. Pp. xxv, 319. $27.99. ISBN 978-1-61039-044-6. Reviewed by Bruce Russett. [Preview]