VOL. XXX

NO. 1

13-OCTOBER-1986

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

The Gulf Stock Exchange Crash, by Fida Darwiche. Published by Croom Helm,London, August 1986, 162 pp. 9.95

Of the many aspects involved in the collapse of Kuwait's stock markets in1982-83, perhaps the best documented and least interesting is the legislativereaction to the crisis. What has been missing is an analysis of events from theinvestors' point of view, as well as a formal model of the economic andsocio-political implications of the...