This narrative recounts the 18th and 19th century "shipping out" of Pacific islanders aboard European and American vessels, a kind of "counter-exploring", that echoed the ancient voyages of settlement of their island ancestors.

Marc R. Tool is Emeritus Professor of Economics at California State University, Sacramento. He is the author of The Discretionary Economy: A Normative Theory of Political Economy (1979), and Essays in Social Value Theory: A Neoinstitutionalist Contributio

Editor's Introduction, Fundamentals of an Institutionalist Perspective on Economic Policy, Social Reform and Economic Policy, Institutionalist Reflections on the Role of the Public Sector, Economic Stabilization and Inflation, Domestic Monetary Policy: If Not Monetarism, What?, Selective Employment Programs and Economic Policy, The Myth Is Not the Reality: Income Maintenance and Welfare, Industrial Policy, Uncertainty, Indicative Planning, and Industrial Policy, Public Utility Regulation: A Case Study in the Debate over Effectiveness of Economic Regulation, Shifting the Burden of Environmental Protection, A Geobased National Agricultural Policy for Rural Community Enhancement, Environmental Vitality, and Income Stabilization, Foreign Economic Policy: Challenges of the 1980s, The Implementation of Economic Development, About the Authors