Book reviewed in this articles:Mongolia: a centrally planned economy in transitionThe Oil Boom and After: lndonesian economic policy and performance in the Soeharto eraEdited by Anne BoothChinese Industrial Firms Under ReformEdited by William A. ByrdAustralia and Northeast Asia in the 1990s: accelerating changeEconomic Reform and Internationalization: China and the Pacific RimEdited by Ross Garnaut and Liu GuoguangRegional Policy in a Changing WorldNiles Hansen, Benjamin Higgins and Donald SavoieThe West Pacific Rim: an introductionRupert HodderIncome Distribution in Thailand: its changes, causes and structureYukio IkemotoThe East‐West PendulumRobert Lloyd GeorgeRice Policy in IndonesiaScott Pearson, Walter Falcon, Paul Heytons, Eric Monke and Rosamond NaylorThe ASEAN ReaderCompiled by K. S. Sandhu, Sharon Siddique, Chandran Jeshurun, Ananda Rajah, Joseph L. H. Tan and Pushpa Thambipill