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When originally published in 1945 this book was the first to give a detailed account, based largely upon original sources, of the 'Scheldt Question' from its medieval origins to the settlement of 1839 and to set it against an adequate background of political and economic history. The river Scheldt, the waterway giving access to the port of Antwerp which was so much in the news during the Allied liberation of Belgium and Holland was for centuries the subject of an international question in which all the leading states of Europe were at different times involved. The later part of the book is based on archival researches including the private papers of Lord Palmerston.

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Within the last two decades, the disciplinary boundary between economics and philosophy has come under increasing scrutiny. In examining economic justice, Winfield follows in the tradition of John Rawls's Theory of Justice (CH, Sep '72). Unfortunately, where Rawls was well versed in the literature of both economics and philosophy, Winfield is not. Winfield's treatment of economic theory begins with Smith and ends with Marx. Modern economic theory, even the obviously pertinent literature of welfare economics, is ignored entirely. As a result, Winfield is forced to labor in murky detail over matters that have received far more adequate treatment in the economic literature, at the expense of his primary focus--economic justice. On philosophical matters, Winfield is more convincing. Finding both the praxis theories of Plato and Aristotle and the social contract theories of Hobbes, Rousseau, and others ill suited to the task of defining economic justice, Winfield develops a philosophical foundation for the just economy from Hegel's Philosophy of Right. What emerges is a description of the just economy as a market economy safeguarded by limited government intervention to counter problems of market failure and ensure equal economic opportunity. Simply put, Winfield's economic justice is little more than common exercise of market freedom. -R. S. Hewett, Drake University