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Notes and Book Reviews Divisia Index Numbers and Productivity Measurement

A recent note by Merrilees [15] concludes that Divisia index numbers as employed in our studies of productivity change [ l l , 141 represent a new perspective on the analysis of productivity. Merrilees concludes further that Divisia index numbers are appropriate for the explanation of productivity change, but that they should not be used for measurement. In this note we examine and reject both ...

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S AND BOOK REVIEWS Richard Boothby. Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud. London and New York: Routledge, 1991. xv + 266 pp. The importance of Richard Boothby's Death and Desire lies in its demonstration of the theoretical centrality of the death drive to Freudian psychoanalysis. Taking seriously the commonplace about Lacan's "return to Freud," Boothby's account ma...

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We may perhaps be sceptical regarding the flood of literature on this subject proceeding from across the Atlantic, but the fact that the author, now Professor of Education in the Teachers' College, Columbia University, U.S.A., was formerly a distinguished student of one of our own Universities, may win for this book a somewhat readier welcome. It will certainly be deserved, for at the present s...