CYCLES IN YOUR LIFE

by Darrell Yuff ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

There is no need to worry about your blues, ""Mr. Yuff cheerily reports, since ""every sane person"" seems to have an emotional dominance, long-range weather forecasting, women's fahsions, and the best times to sit for examinations or ask the boss for a raise, are some of the social and economic questions touched upon in this statistical potpourri. Business cycles being perhaps the most intently watched and out-surveyed of all varieties of periodicity, it is unfortunate that in his speculations on boom and bust Yuff reveals a sorry lack of insight into cause and effect, creating in the process of writing about it a tight little knot of opinion amid his facts. The study of cyclical relationships is not yet an organized discipline, but the trend seems to be toward greater selectivity and away from impulsive attempts to declare relationships where they have not yet been demonstrated to exist. Yuff's approach is to skim the surface as lightly as possible, but much of this material is amusing, and it is after all hard to see how a popular analytical treatment can be expected until the subject graduates from its scientific infancy.

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Publisher: Norton

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1964

Categories: NONFICTION