146 Short Book Reviews of this meeting was to bring together scientists from stochastic programming and from those engineering areas, where mathematical programming models are common tools, for example, optimal structural design, power dispatch, acid rain management etc. The first, theoretical part includes papers by S.D. Flare, H. Niederreiter, E. P16chinger and R. Sehultz. The second part on methods and applications contains articles by N. Baba, N. Gr6we et al. Organisation for Economic development STI REVIEW no.8 OECD, 1991, FFllO, 164pages. Co-operation and This book groups some texts presented at the International Seminar on Science, Technology and Economic Growth, which took place at OECD Headquarters in June 1989. This issue contains 5 articles. The first four articles were discussed in the workshop devoted to technical problems raised by the measurement of total factor productivity growth and by the measurement of technical change. The last article was discussed in that workshop which dealt with issues related to introducing technical change in macro-economic modelling. The titles of the different articles are : 1) R&D and productivity : a survey of econometric studies at the firm level, 2) How to re-evaluate durable capital stock, 3) Tests for measurement of service sector productivity, 4) measurement of the value of patents fights, and 5) Secular trends in technology in the United States. duality, optimality conditions, semi-infinite optimization, multiobjective optimization and problems of model identification. Neuefeind, W., Riezman, R.G. (eds.) Economic Theory and International Trade Sptinger-Veda~ 1992, DM160, x + 306pages. This volume contains papers on economic theory and international trade. The papers on economic theory cover the existence and structure of competitive equilibrium in various settings : non- convexities, non-transitivity of preferences, and absence of differentiability or free-disposal assumptions, the role of compensating variation as a welfare measure, oligopoly under bounded rationality, and regulation of a public utility. The papers on International Trade offer analyses of the "Dutch disease" and the Atlantic Slave Trade, treat the influence of economic growth on import demand, the terms of trade, and other economic variables, and present theoretical and empirical evidence for the validi~ of the Heekscher-Ohlin model. The papers are ngourous and often require mathematical sophistication, reflecting various aspects of Trout Rader's work. Guddat, J., Jongen, H.Th., Kummer, B., Nozicka, F. (eds.) Parametric optimi~,ation and Related Topics II (Mathematical Research vol. 62) Akademie Verla~ 1991, 175pages. The present volume, which contains selected contributions to the conference "Parametric Optimization and Related Topics II" (Eisenaeh, June 27 - July 2, 1989), includes new results in the theoretically as well as practically important field of parametric optimization. A variety of corresponding problems, which seem to be quite different at first ~lance, is introduced to the reader. Their common teature is the investigation of the behaviour of solutions to mathematical prolgramming problems when the problem data are subjected perturbations. More or less explicitly, this question plays an important role in the whole field of optimization, but especially in connection with solution methods, Operational Researchers wishing to review books and publishers wishing to have books reviewed please contact Prof. L.F. Gelders, Dr. D.G. Catttysse, Catholic University of Leuven, Division of Industrial Management, Celestijnenlaan 300 A , B - 3001 HEVERLEE - LEUVEN, BELGIUM, Tel : 32 - 16 - 28.66.11, Fax : 32 - 16 - 22.23.45