Die Menschliche Lunge. [The Human Lung].

HAYEK, Heinrich von. [Friedrich August von Hayek].

$2,000.00

Item Number: 107542

Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1953.

First edition of Heinrich von Hayek’s work on the human lung. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with diagrams throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by Friedrich August von Hayek on the front free endpaper, “To Ann, this book of her great uncle in admiration of her scientific achievements from her Grandfather Feb. 21, 1985.” Born in Vienna, Nobel Prize-winning political philosopher Friedrich August von Hayek was the oldest of three brothers, Heinrich (1900–1969) and Erich (1904–1986), who were one-and-a-half and five years younger than him. The present volume was his brother Heinrich’s major contribution to the study of human anatomy, which Friedrich inscribed to his granddaughter, Anne Williams, an aspiring student of medicine. In fine condition.

One of the major social theorists and political philosophers of the 20th century, Friedrich August von Hayek was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his "pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and [...] penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena." His account of how changing prices communicate information that helps individuals co-ordinate their plans is widely regarded as one of the most important achievement in economics. Hayek's most notable work, The Road to Serfdom has sold over 2 million copies worldwide and is considered on of the most important books of the 20th century.