Abstract
THERE is much in this unpretentious book to commend it to the attention of the scientific reader. Its indictment of our present system of production and distribution as obsolete and inadequate, leading to a chronic condition of chaos in which unemployment on a large scale is endemic, is characterised by common sense and moderation. No less noteworthy for the complete absence of denunciation and class hatred or bitterness is its condemnation of the private monopolies which are the inevitable result of the present system and which control, in their own interest only, prices of the necessities of life. Its resolute attempt at fundamental thinking on the situation and to secure the economic conditions which will enable the scientific and technical triumphs of mankind to benefit the whole race has a sure claim on the sympathy of scientific opinion, and this claim is reinforced by the many years of administrative experience in Amsterdam from which Dr. Wibaut is able to speak.
A World Production Order
By Dr. F. M. Wibaut. Translated from the Dutch by R. W. Roame. Pp. 240. (London: George Alien and Unwin, Ltd., 1935.) 6s. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 136, 935 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136935b0
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