Book reviewed in this article:Gain from the Pain: Australia Recovers from Its Economic Boom‐Bust, Australian Financial Review, Economics Extra 2, by Michael Stutchbury.What's Really Happening: Australia's Business World, by Robert Gottliebsen.From Boom to Bust: Trial and Error in British Economic Policy, by David Smith.False Promises: The Failure of Conservative Economics, edited by Robert C.Demand and Exchange in Economic Analysis, A History from Coumot to Marshall, by John Creedy.In Reserve: Central Banking in Australia, 1945‐75, by C.B. Schedvin.Imperfect Competition, Differential Information, and Microfoundations of Macroeconomics, by Kiyohiko Nishimura.Corporatization and Privatization Lessons from New Zealand, by Ian Duncan and Alan Bollard.Modelling Individual Choice: The Econometrics of Corners, Kinks and Holes, by Stephen Pudney.Inequality Re‐examined, by Amartya Sen.The Japanese Enterprise System. Competitive Strategies and Cooperative Structures, by W. Mark Fruin.Efficiency Wages: models of unemployment, layoffs, and wage dispersionj, by Andrew Weiss.International Trade Theory and Policy: Selected Essays of W. Max Corden, by W. Max Corden.Corden, W.M. (1953), ‘The Maximization of Profit by a Newspaper’,Review of Economic Studies.Inside the Bank: The Role of the Reserve Bank of Australia in the Economic, Banking and Financial Systems, by J. Linklater.The Economics of Australian Labour Markets, by Keith Norris.Riach, P.A. and Rich, J.(1987), ‘Testing for Sexual Discrimination in the Labour Market’.Responding to Unemployment: Perspectives and Strategies, edited by Ann Hodgkinson, Di Kelly and Nadia Verrucci.Managing Government: Labor's Achievements and Failures, by Fred Gruen and Mic