Economics
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KEYNES, John Maynard. A Tract on Monetary Reform.1923
First edition, first impression. Based in part on earlier essays, this book promoted several novel ideas regarding monetary reform, including the replacement of the gold standard (which Keynes termed a "barbarous relic") with a managed currency. Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 140110
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FARRER, T. H. The State in its Relation to Trade.London : 1883
First edition; one of the principal works of Thomas Henry, first Baron Farrer (1819-1899), civil servant. "Farrer shared with most of his political masters the view that government should do no more than seek to create the conditions for commerce to flourish - preventing fraud, curbing monopoly, and protecting "as much individual freedom as is consistent... Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 140148
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COLE, George Douglas Howard (ed.) What Everybody Wants to Know About Money.London : 1933
First edition, first impression, of this overview of the monetary system, policy, and debates. Nine economists from Oxford contributed, all broadly on the left, including future Labour Leader Hugh Gaitskell, and Colin Clark, George Douglas Howard Cole, Evan Frank Mottram Durbin, E. L. Hargreaves, R. F. Harrod, G. R. Mitchison, E. A. Radice, and Aylmer... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 140163
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TROUP, C. E. The Future Work of Free Trade in English Legislation.London : 1884
First edition, the Cobden Prize Essay of 1883, proposing the legislative changes need to further and entrench free trade. With a nice provenance, the title page with the presentation stamp "presented by the Cobden Club", the free trade association named in honour of Richard Cobden, the great campaigner for free trade; also with the bookplate of Robert... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 140177
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CROWTHER, Geoffrey. Economics for Democrats.London : 1939
First edition, first impression, of this overview of contemporary economics by the editor of The Economist, and his proposals to democratize the system. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 140187
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SMITH, Vernon L. Investment and Production.Cambridge, Massachusetts : 1961
First edition, first printing, of the economist's work on capital and investment theory. Smith would go on to share the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Daniel Kahneman for his contributions to Behavioral Economics. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 140107
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(HAYEK, Friedrich August von.) FINER, Herman. Road to Reaction.London : 1946
First UK edition of this socialist counterblast to Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, by the British Fabian socialist Herman Finer (1898-1969). Finer christens Hayek's treatise "The Reactionary Manifesto", and calls it "the most inopportune offensive against democracy to emerge from a democratic country for many decades".
The UK edition was preceded by... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 140167
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MISES, Ludwig von. The Theory of Money and Credit.London : 1953
First expanded edition, UK issue from the US sheets. Mises's Theory of Money and Credit offers "a detailed sophisticated explanation of the quantity theory of money based on the subjective, marginal utility theory. Explains money's origin, the development and nature of banking, the cause and consequences of inflation and credit expansion, the differences... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 140171
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HAYEK, Friedrich August von. The Constitution of Liberty.London : 1960
First UK edition, first impression. Written to coincide with the centenary of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (although published a year late), Hayek surveys the origin and development of economic and personal liberty in Western civilization, and outlines the threats that socialism and welfarism pose to a free, liberal society. Along with The Road to... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 140173
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MISES, Ludwig von. The Theory of Money and Credit.London : 1934
First edition in English. Mises's Theory of Money and Credit offers "a detailed sophisticated explanation of the quantity theory of money based on the subjective, marginal utility theory. It explains money's origin, the development and nature of banking, the cause and consequences of inflation and credit expansion, the differences in the value of different... Learn More£800.00Stock Code: 140178
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SIDGWICK, Henry. Miscellaneous Essays and Addresses.London : 1904
First edition, first impression, of this posthumous collection of essays and speeches by the philosopher, with subjects ranging from economic socialism and the ethics of sociology, to Shakespeare and the poetry of Arthur Hugh Clough. Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 140101
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(HAYEK, Friedrich August von.) Streissler, Erich (ed.) Roads to Freedom.London : 1969
First edition, first impression, of this collection of essays published as a tribute to Hayek, named "Roads to Freedom" in contrast to Hayek's "Road to Serfdom". The contributors include Peter T. Bauer, Fritz Machlup, and Karl Popper. Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 140118
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KEYNES, John Maynard. Essays in Biography.London : 1951
Expanded edition, with three new essays, on Isaac Newton, William Stanley Jevons, and Mary Paley Marshall. First published in March 1933, with a second impression in May 1933, this marked the third printing overall. Keynes's collection gives biographical sketches of various economists and politicians, including Winston Churchill, Alfred Marshall, and... Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 140126
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(HUME, David). Rotwein, Eugene (ed.) David Hume: Writings on Economics.London : 1955
First edition, first impression, of this collection of Hume's economics writings, edited and introduced by Eugene Rotwein, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin. The work marks the first collected publication of the economic writings, consisting of nine of the twelve essays in his Political Discourses, and a small number of... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 140063
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MARSHALL, Alfred. Official Papers.London : 1926
First collected edition, first impression, containing "the whole of Alfred Marshall's contributions to official enquiries on economic questions with the exception of his work on the Labour Commission", with a preface by its editor John Maynard Keynes. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 140098
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SAMUELSON, Paul Anthony. Foundations of Economic Analysis.Cambridge, MA : 1947
First edition, first impression of this "milestone in the conversion of modern economists to the view that all economic behaviour can be studied as the solution to a maximization problem explicitly or implicitly employing the formulation of differential and integral calculus" (Blaug, Great Economists Since Keynes, p. 214). Here Samuelson demonstrates... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 140024
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HOBSON, John Atkinson. Towards International Government.London : 1915
First edition, first impression, inscribed "With the Writer's kind regards" to the front free endpaper and with the ownership inscription of Liberal MP P. A. Molteno. Written against the backdrop of the First World War, Hobson defends the establishment of international government and institutions, which would enhance the domestic role of states to counter... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 139916
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ROBERTSON, John Mackinnon. The Fallacy of Saving.London & New York : 1892
First edition, an expanded version of an essay first read to the Political Economy Circle of the National Liberal Club by the journalist and liberal J. M. Robertson, at this time editor of the National Reformer following Charles Bradlaugh's death. In the first part he studies the views of economists on saving from Adam Smith, Turgot, Lauderdale, Malthus,... Learn More£90.00Stock Code: 139659
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FAWCETT, Henry. Pauperism: its Causes and Remedies.London : 1871
First edition, based on a course of lectures that economist Henry Fawcett (1833-1884), husband of suffragist Millicent Fawcett (1847-1929), delivered at Cambridge in 1870 to raise the issue of poverty and the poor law system.
"His direct, realistic, unpolished attempts to explain the substance and policy implications of elementary economic analysis... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 140031
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MARSHALL, Alfred. The Early Economic Writings of Alfred Marshall, 1867-1890.London : 1975
First edition, comprising five parts, largely based on manuscript material in the Marshall Library, Cambridge. The work "explores Marshall's early development as an economist in much greater detail than has been possible hitherto" (dust jacket), and reproduces many previously-unpublished manuscripts composed by Marshall during the years 1867-1890. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 139996
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[KEYNES, John Maynard.] Britain's Industrial Future. Being the Report of the Liberal Industrial Inquiry.1928
First edition, first impression. Notable for the presence of W. T. Layton, Lloyd George, Philip Kerr, J. M. Keynes and Ramsay Muir on the executive committee of the Liberal Industrial Inquiry, and the body responsible for this volume. For those attending the Liberal Summer School (founded in 1921) "there was need for fresh investigation of the economic... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 139998
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SAMUELSON, Paul Anthony. Foundations of Economic Analysis.Cambridge, MA : 1947
First edition, first impression of this "milestone in the conversion of modern economists to the view that all economic behaviour can be studied as the solution to a maximization problem explicitly or implicitly employing the formulation of differential and integral calculus" (Blaug, Great Economists Since Keynes, p. 214). Here Samuelson demonstrates... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 140045
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CUNNINGHAM, William. The Wisdom of the Wise.Cambridge : 1906
First edition, first impression, with the author's clipped signature "yrs. very sincerely W. Cunningham" mounted to the front pastedown. "Cunningham's reputation rests largely on his economic history, which has been called neo-mercantilist, and as an apologist for British imperialism. He explained that Britain's economic success was not rooted in laissez-faire,... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 139476
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DENNISON, Henry S., Lincoln Filene, Ralph E. Flanders, & Morris E. Leeds. Toward Full Employment.New York : 1938
First edition, first printing, of this joint proposal by the presidents of four progressive industrial concerns to expand governmental public works programs and increase long range planning to achieve full employment and stabilize employment figures. Although Keynes is cited only briefly, the proposals are Keynesian in principle, and reflect the ongoing... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 139979
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BÖHM-BAWERK, Eugen von. Histoire Critique des Théories de l'Intérêt du Capital.Paris : 1902-1903
First edition in French of Geschichte und Kritik der Kapitalzins-Theorien (1884, this taken from the second German edition of 1900), "an exhaustive survey of the alternative treatments of the phenomenon of interest: use theories, productivity theories, abstinence theories, and many more. Most significant in this early work is his devastating... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 139981
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SAY, Louis Auguste. Traité élémentaire de la Richesse individuelle et de la Richesse Publique,Paris : 1827
First edition of this economic study by the Nantes industrialist Louis Auguste Say (1774-1840), the brother of the more famous Jean-Baptiste, yet a significant economist in his own right. The present work is in two parts, the first discussing the moral and political implications of public and private wealth, and the second applying the principle of... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 139991
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SAY, Jean-Baptiste. Traité d'économie politique,Paris : 1803
First edition of Say's masterpiece, one of the great works of the classical period of economic thought. Initially not republished until 1814, partly due to Napoleon's hostility to Say, the work thereafter went through 32 editions, and with Smith's Wealth of Nations (whose doctrine Say expounded from an early age), became the most popular work on economics... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 136945
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FRIEDMAN, Milton (ed.) Studies in the Quantity Theory of Money.Chicago : 1956
First edition, first printing. An important work: "It was only in Studies in the Quantity Theory of Money that Friedman turned decisively towards monetary economics, resuscitating the old discredited 'quantity theory of money' and giving new life to the anti-Keynesian doctrine that 'money matters'" (Blaug). Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 136460
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AFTALION, ALbert. Les Crises périodiques de surproduction.Paris : 1913
First edition, very scarce: one of the earliest statements of the acceleration principle "an important concept which has been used successfully in explaining investment behaviour as well as cyclical behaviour in a capitalist economy. It will continue to play an important role in macroeconomic models as well as in models of business cycles." (The New... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 135866
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SIDGWICK, Henry. The Scope and Method of Economic Science. An Address delivered to the Economic Science and Statistics Section of the British Association at Aberdeen 10 September, 1885.London : 1885
First edition, very scarce. "This British Association address argues that abstract reasoning can never be 'a substitute for an accurate and thorough investigation of facts', and discusses at length the relations between economics and politics." (Batson).
"His texts were generally distinguished more by the careful clarity of his exposition and the... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 135844
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LARDNER, Dionysius. Railway Economy: a treatise on the new art of transport, its management, prospects, and relations, commercial, financial, and social. With an exposition of the practical results of the railways in operation in the United Kingdom, on the Continent and inLondon : 1850
First edition of the first book collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell (18491936), whose extensive collections now form the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at Harvard.
In his article "Herbert Somerton Foxwell" (Economic Journal, Dec. 1936), J. M. Keynes documents... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 135495
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(GREEN, Hetty.) BULLARD, John M. The Greens As I Knew Them.New Bedford, MA : 1964
First edition, signed by the author on the half-title, of this collection of tales of Hetty Green, 'The Witch of Wall Street', and her eccentric son Colonel Ned Green. "The extraordinary Green family was very closely associated with my law office for so many years that I have absorbed many interesting anecdotes about them, besides having had considerable... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 135158
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[SWEDISH ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.] Economiska Annaler, med Kongl. Maj:ts Nådigste Tillstånd utgifna af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Academien.Stockholm : 1807-1808
First edition, all published, of the series of "Economic Annals" of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden. The work, issued in monthly parts, deals with economics in the sense of practical advice and findings applicable in agriculture and business in general. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 135159
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SNELGRAVE, William. A new Account of some Parts of Guinea, and the Slave-Trade,London : 1734
First edition of Snelgrave's account of slavery and of the capture of his ship by pirates (pages 193-288. "The author, a slaving captain, traded at Whydah in 1727 and 1730; he complains that the Dahomean conquest has ruined the slave trade there." (Hogg). He makes several references to his trips to Antigua in connection with the slave trade. Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 134659
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(ROBBINS, Lionel.) BURNS, Arthur Robert. The Decline of Competition.New York and London : 1936
First edition, first impression. The copy of the economist Lionel Robbins, with his pencilled ownership signature to the front free endpaper. At the LSE, Robbins "dominated the economics department for thirty years and built it up to its pre-eminent position in British economics" (ODNB). Burns studied at the LSE before joining the economics faculty... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 133035
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CANNAN, Edwin. A History of the Theories of Production and Distribution in English Political Economy from 1776 to 1848.London : 1893
First edition, first issue, but with the spine stamped Rivington, Percival & Co., (Rivington distributed the book with a cancel title page sharing the imprint in 1894). A pioneering work in the history of economics, the work traces the development of theories of production and distribution from the Wealth of Nations to Mill's Principles of Political... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 133017
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(JEVONS.) INOUE, Takutoshi. W. Stanley Jevons. Selected Works in Variorum Editions.Tokyo and London : 2018
First variorum edition of Jevons's The Coal Question and The Theory of Political Economy, with editorial introduction, notes and appendices by the leading Jevons scholar Takutoshi Inoue. Learn More£625.00Stock Code: 131387
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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Acts of Parliament relating to the Revolutionary period and its aftermath, 1770-1807.London : [1770-1807]
A remarkable collection of British Acts of Parliament relating to trade with the American colonies and subsequently with the fledgling republic. The collection documents the role of parliament in instigating the American Revolution through mercantilist policies, its continued assertion of its sovereignty during the War of Independence, and the ongoing... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 130669
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SWEEZY, Paul, et al. The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism.London : 1976
First collected edition of these essays, first impression. Paul Sweezy and Maurice Dobb had published an article under the same title in Science & Society in 1950. It engendered various academic replies, including by Georges Lefebvre, Eric Hobsawm and Christopher Hill. The present volume collects together several of these contributions, representing... Learn More£50.00Stock Code: 129409
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HAWTREY, R. G. Towards the Rescue of Sterling.London : 1954
First edition, first impression. Hawtrey proposes a remedy of restraining the supply of money and sound government finance to rein in inflation and adverse balance of payments, and allow sterling to become freely convertible again. Learn More£50.00Stock Code: 129385
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HEILBRONER, Robert L. The Quest for Wealth.New York : 1956
First edition, first printing, in an attractive binding. Heilbroner places the acquisitive instinct as the major driving force in human history. Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 129320
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ROBBINS, Lionel. The Economic Problem in Peace and War.London : 1947
First edition, first impression, of this important work, marking Robbins's conversion to Keynesianism. The book prints the lectures Robbins gave at Cambridge in spring 1947, under the auspices of the Marshall foundation. Learn More£45.00Stock Code: 129174
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BLITH, Walter. The English Improover, or a new Survey of Husbandry.London : 1649
One of two 1649 editions, of unestablished priority. Walter Blith (1605-1654) has been called by Robert Trow-Smith "the greatest of the mid-seventeenth century writers" in the field of agriculture (English Husbandry, 1951). In this work, Blith advocates draining and making water meadows, inclosure, the use of manures, and plantations. "In spite of the... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 129024
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GRAHAM, James. Corn and Currency; in an Address to the Land Owners.London : 1826
First edition. James Graham (1792-1861) inherited his father's neglected 25,000-acre Netherby estate in 1824, and spent huge sums improving it. "In the 1820s Graham was frequently pessimistic about the estate's survival, and sometimes considered selling. In consequence, he became extremely critical of the government's economic policy, particularly the... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 129019
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STACKELBERG, Heinrich von. Grundlagen einer reinen Kostentheorie.Vienna : 1932
First edition, offprinted from the Zeitschrift Fur Nationalokonmie, vol. III issues 3 and 4, of Stackelberg's Ph.D. thesis, which has originally been submitted in 1930 at the University of Cologne. Located by Library Hub in only three British institutions. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 127685
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COMMONS, John R. Industrial Government.New York : 1921
First edition of this collection of essays on industrial relations by the institutional economist Commons (1862-1945), based on findings of a tour of thirty progressive businesses made in the summer of 1919 by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Wisconsin, of which Commons was a member.
"In the postwar period Commons's immediate... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 127205
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[WALLACE, Robert.] A Dissertation on the Numbers of Mankind in antient and modern Times:Edinburgh : 1753
First edition. Robert Wallace (1697-1771) was an interesting figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, a founding member of the Rankenian Club during his university days and also active in the Philosophical and Select societies. His elaborate history of population was based on the extensive research in ancient history that he had originally presented to... Learn More£1,100.00Stock Code: 127137
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SANDRAS, Gatien Courtilz de. The political last testament of Monsieur John Baptist Colbert.London : 1695
First edition in English of this spurious memoir of the French statesman John Baptist Colbert, Minister of Finances under Louis XIV, generally accepted to have been written by the French novelist Gatien Courtilz de Sandras. Under Colbert ministry France's finances were rejuvenated, with bankruptcy averted and manufacturing and trade improved. The first... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 126894
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(SAMUEL, Herbert Louis.) Britain's Industrial Future.London : 1928
First edition, first impression, case-bound issue. Presentation copy from Viscount Herbert Louis Samuel, a member of the executive committee which produced the report, with his signature on a pasted address card to the pastedown. The presentation was probably to Isaac Foot, the father of Michael Foot, as the book includes a signed typed letter from... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 125328
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FELLNER, William, & Bernard F. Haley (eds.) Readings in the Theory of Income Distribution.Philadelphia : 1946
First edition, first printing, of this collection of previously-published economic essays, edited by Bernard Haley (1899-1993) and Hungarian-American economist William Fellner, the Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University from 1952 until his retirement in 1973. Learn More£30.00Stock Code: 124178
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SCHELLING, Thomas C. The Strategy of Conflict.Cambridge, Massachusetts : 1960
First edition, first printing, of the Nobel Laureate economist's most influential book, which pioneered the application of game theory of political and social analysis. According to the TLS (6 Oct 1995), Schelling's is considered one of the hundred books most influential in the West since 1945. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 123674
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JACKSON, William. Book-Keeping in the true Italian Form of Debtor and Creditor by way of double entry; or, Practical Book-Keeping exemplified from the precepts of the late ingenious D. Dowling, Author of mercantile Arithmetic.Philadelphia : 1801
First American edition, based on the Dublin printed 1765 work by Daniel Dowling. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 123620
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BEVERIDGE, William. Unemployment.London : 1931
First expanded edition, second impression, of Beveridge's "pioneering study which explored the structural complexity of the market for labour" (ODNB). This updated version of his first book includes the first part originally published in 1909 and the second part of 1930 which discusses new developments and policies. Learn More£50.00Stock Code: 121332
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(MARSHALL, Alfred.) BAGEHOT, Walter. The Postulates of English Political Economy.London : 1885
First edition with Marshall's preface of Bagehot's text discussing the transferability of capital and labour. This is the UK "student" edition, also published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in New York. It first appeared as an article in the Fortnightly Review in 1876 and was later reprinted as part of Economic Studies in 1880. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 119646
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WICKSELL, Knut. Über Wert, Kapital und Rente nach den neueren nationalökonomischen Theorien.Jena : 1893
First edition, presentation copy of Wicksell's first book, inscribed by him on the title: "Assessor C. O. Montan, vänskapsfullt från förf." An analysis of the theory of distribution, the first English translation, Value, Capital, and Rent, was published in 1954. "In Value, Capital, and Rent he performed a remarkable labour of synthesis. He adopted... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 119110
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SYMPSON, Anthony. A Short, Easy and Effectual Method to Prevent the Running of Wool, &c.London : 1741
First and only edition of this pre-Industrial Revolution essay calling for the rationalisation of wool manufacturing. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 113535
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JENNY, Adele. Early American Trade Cards,New York : 1927
First edition, deluxe issue of 50 copies printed on rag-paper and specially bound, this copy inscribed by Landauer on the front free endpaper in pencil. A selective catalogue of trade cards from the famous Landauer collection, which is reputed to have numbered over 100,000 individual specimens, and which the owner eventually donated to the New York... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 105746
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BEVERIDGE, William H. Unemployment. A Problem of Industry.London : 1909
First edition, first impression of Beveridge's first book. Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 96491
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BOTERO, Giovanni. Della Ragion di Stato, Libri Dieci. Con tre Libri Delle Cause Della Grandezza e Magnificenza Delle Città.Venice : 1589
First edition. Botero's work is in two parts. The first part is his most famous contribution to political philosophy. Entitled "The Reason of State", Botero provides an extended discussion of the moral question of acting in the state's best interests, and offers a direct rebuttal to the ideas espoused by Machiavelli. A champion of the counter-reformation,... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 124167
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DOBB, Maurice. Marx as an Economist.London : 1943
First edition, first impression. Maurice Dobb (1900-1976) was a Cambridge academic and one of the leading Marxist economists of the 20th century. Learn More£40.00Stock Code: 124267
