Book Reviews

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Book Reviews —Hanssmann, Fred, Operations Research Techniques for Capital Investment . New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1968, 269 pp., $11.50; —Calman, Robert F., Linear Programming and Cash Management. CASH ALPHA . Cambridge, Mass.: The M. I. T. Press, 1968, 154 pp., $10; —Terborgh, George, Business Investment Management: A MAPI Study and Manual . Washington, D.C: Machinery and Allied Products Institute and Council for Technological Advancement, 1967, 357 pp., $20; —Van Horne, James C., Financial Management and Policy . Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968, 583 pp., $10.50; —Hester, Donald D. and James Tobin (eds.), Risk Aversion and Portfolio Choice; Cowles Monograph 19 . New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1967, 180 pp., $8.95; —Hester, Donald D. and James Tobin (eds.), Studies of Portfolio Behavior; Cowles Monograph 20 . New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1967, 258 pp., $8.95; —Hester, Donald D. and James Tobin (eds.), Financial Markets and Economic Activity; Cowles Monograph 21 . New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1967, 256 pp., $8.95; —Cohen, Jerome B. and Edward D. Zinbarg, Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management . Homewood, Ill.: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1967, 792 pp., $12.50; —Robichek, Alexander A. (ed.), Financial Research and Management Decisions. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1967, 232 pp., $8.95; —Kempster, John H., Financial Analysis to Guide Capital Expenditures . New York: National Association of Accountants, 1967, 193 pp., paperback $2.50; —Cootner, Paul (ed.), The Random Character of Stock Market Prices . Cambridge, Mass.: The M. I. T. Press, 1967, 536 pp., paperback $4.95; —Weingartner, H. Martin, Mathematical Programming and the Analysis of Capital Budgeting Problems . Chicago, Ill.: Markham Publishing Co., 1967, 265 pp., $6; —Archer, Stephen H. and Charles A. D'Ambrosio (eds.), The Theory of Business Finance: A Book of Readings . New York: Macmillan Co., 1967, 713 pp., $9.95; —Mock, Edward J. (compiler), Financial Decision-Making . Scranton, Pa.: International Textbook Co., 1967, 953 pp., $11; —Weston, J. Fred and Donald H. Woods (eds.), Basic Financial Management: Selected Readings . Belmont, Cal.: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1967, 494 pp., paperback text $4.95, trade $6.60; —Weston, J. Fred and Donald H. Woods (eds.), Theory of Business Finance: Advanced Readings . Belmont, Cal.: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1967, 482 pp; —Schlaifer, Robert, Analysis of Decisions Under Uncertainty, Volume I, Preliminary Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1967, about 280 pp., paperback, $9.95; —Peters, William S. and George W. Summers, Statistical Analysis for Business Decisions . Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968, 540 pp., $9.95; —Morgan, Bruce W., An Introduction to Bayesian Statistical Decision Processes . Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1968, 116 pp., paperback $3.95; —Forester, John, Statistical Selection of Business Strategies . Homewood, Ill.: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1968, 220 pp., $7; —Krishnaiah, Paruchuri R. (ed.), Multivariate Analysis . New York: Academic Press Inc., 1966, 592 pp., $19.50; —Wolberg, John R., Prediction Analysis . Princeton, N. J.: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., 1967, 291 pp., $10.75; —Aigner, Dennis J., Principles of Statistical Decision Making . New York: Macmillan Co., 1968, 145 pp., $6.95 and paperback $2.95; —Ferguson, Thomas S., Mathematical Statistics: A Decision Theoretic Approach . New York: Academic Press, 1967, 396 pp., $14.50; —Sielaff, Theodore J. and P. S. Wang, Practical Problems in Business and Economic Statistics . San Francisco: Holden-Day, Inc., 1968, 272 pp. plus work paper, paperback $4.75; —Mothes, J., Previsions et Decisions Statistique dans l'Enterprise . Paris: Dunod, 1968, 644 pp., 96 F; —Harman, Harry H., Modern Factor Analysis . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967 (second edition), 474 pp., $12.50; —Hannan, Edward J., Time Series Analysis . New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1967 (second edition), 152 pp., paperback $2.25; —Parzen, Emanuel, Time Series Analysis Papers . San Francisco: Holden-Day, Inc., 1967, 565 pp., paperback $8.50; —Rashevsky, Nicolas, Looking at History Through Mathematics . Cambridge, Mass.: The M. I. T. Press, 1968, 240 pp., $10; —Singh, Jagjit, Great Ideas of Operations Research . New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1968, 228 pp., paperback $2.25.