Volume 21, Number 21 & 22 · January 23, 1975
The Great World Crisis I
By Geoffrey Barraclough
World Bank Annual Report 1974
World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20433, 142 pp., free
International Monetary Fund, Annual Report of the Executive Directors for the Fiscal Year Ended April 30, 1974
International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC 20431, 155 pp., free
A Time to Choose: America's Energy Future
by the Energy Policy Project of the Ford Foundation, with a foreword by McGeorge Bundy
Ballinger, 528 pp., $4.95 (paper)
World Hunger: Causes and Remedies Studies, 1520 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
Transnational Institute (an affiliate of the Institute for Policy, 64, 16 tables pp., free
The Energy Crisis
by Tad Szulc
Franklin Watts, 160 pp., $6.88
By Bread Alone
by Lester R. Brown
Praeger, 272 pp., $3.95 (paper)
When the history of the approaching depression comes to be written—a depression likely, on present showing, to be even more severe and more world-shaking than the depression of 1929-1940—the second half of 1974 will appear as the time when an unwilling world, preoccupied with inflation and mounting unemployment, was suddenly brought face to face with the twin issues of food and energy.
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