Volume 25, Number 16 · October 26, 1978
Waiting for the New Order
By Geoffrey Barraclough
The Vast Majority: A Journey to the World's Poor
by Michael Harrington
Simon and Schusion, 281 pp., $3.95 (paper)
The Evolution of the International Economic Order
by W. Arthur Lewis
Princeton University Press, 81 pp., $2.45 (paper)
1980s Project of the Council on Foreign Relations: Rich and Poor Nations in the World Economy
by Albert Fishlow, by Carlos Diaz-Alejandro, by Richard R. Fagen, by Roger D. Hansen
McGraw-Hill, 288 pp., $6.95 (paper)
Reducing Global Inequalities
by W. Howard Wriggins, by Gunnar Adler-Karlsson
McGraw-Hill, 176 pp., $5.95 (paper)
Three years ago, as Western statesmen were girding themselves to do battle at the Seventh Special Session of the United Nations under the banner of that intrepid knight in armor, Henry Kissinger, a sense of expectancy, even of excitement, filled the air. At last, it seemed, the poor, destitute, backward countries were beginning to make headway with the demand for a more equitable reordering of the world economy which they had been pressing since 1964. Some feared the prospect; others welcomed it. But everyone was alert and keyed up, awaiting the outcome.
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