The decisions to keep fairly complete accounts of the theory and of its application to one country dictated omitting virtually all the statis- tical analysis (Chapters VII-XIII and a long section of Chapter XIV of the original edition). One of the reviews that appeared not long after the 1939 edition was published criticized it for not having a service- able statistical technique. The criticism was just, and omitting the sta- tistical chapters may be deemed no great loss. Perhaps it would have been desirable to have cut them heavily, retaining the parts most use- ful for throwing light on the implications of the.