"This volume is an attempt to shed light on my family's life-or-death decision of the summer of 1944 and on a grateful immigrant's struggle to earn a Ph. D. in economics in America in the 1950s." - Page [5]

The collection includes both refereed articles and review essays. The articles highlight research on the role of western economic advisors in China before the Communist Revolution (Paul Trescott), John Ryan on minimum wage legislation, a symposium on Clement Juglar, and a comparison of recent...