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First Editions of Time on the Cross; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Fogel in Both Volumes
FOGEL, ROBERT WILLIAM AND STANLEY L. ENGERMAN.
Time On The Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery & Time On the Cross Evidence and Methods. Two Volumes.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1974.
First edition of this work which attracted widespread attention in the media and generated heated controversy and criticism for its methodology and conclusions. Octavo, original brown cloth, 2 volumes. Both volumes are signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist, “RW Fogel 3/18/10.” Each are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. Jacket design by Sarah L. Bindari.
Price: $800.00 Item Number: 114451
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First Edition of P.J. O'Rourke's Eat the Rich; humorously inscribed by him
O'ROURKE, P.J.
Eat The Rich: A Treatise on Economics.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press 1998.
First edition, early printing of the best-selling author’s economic treatise. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To Lucie Bon Appetite! P. J. O’Rourke 4/27/99 NYC.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Whitney Cookman and Charles Rue Woods.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 133080
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exceptionally Rare collection of notes by F.A. Hayek referencing his final thoughts on society.
HAYEK, F.A. [FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON].
F.A. Hayek Collection of 28 Index Cards with Autograph Manuscript Notes on economics and Other Subjects.
: 1970s-1980s.
Rare collection of 28 index cards from the library of F.A. Hayek with autograph manuscript notes and statements on economics, political theory, and other subjects. Many considering how economic structures drive social change and the power of free markets (“…”Men without common purposes and men which [sic] do not even know of each other can collaborate for their mutual benefit only if they freely dispose over distinct resources…”), others addressing philosophical and sociological questions (“…The error of utilitarianism is that it believes that rules of conduct were adopted because of the recognition of their utility while it was not the men who selected them but that those men who practiced them were selected…”), each written in capitals, altogether 31 pages, [1970s-1980s]. “What has led me to my conviction that socialism is not half right but all wrong[?]” These notes seem to be closely related to Hayek‘s last work of the 1980s, especially The Fatal Conceit. This late work returned to the attack on socialism that had begun with The Road to Serfdom, arguing that there is an intimate connection between the growth of civilisation and private property: “The possibility of investing in other people’s labour proved to be the innovation most productive of lives[.]” Several of the cards return to one of Hayek‘s favourite themes, the limitations of intellectual theory: “Paradoxically as it may sound, it was the partial and incomprehended effectiveness of factually false beliefs (about the consequence of wrong action) which enabled man to build so much better than he knew”. Societies may not understand the reasons for their own successes, which may lie in the hidden and unintended order of markets and price signals: “Men often do not know to which of their practices they owe their prosperity”. He also has choice words on various other subjects including the limitations of statistical analysis (“The economic quantities measured by statistics are not something you can do anything with, nor can they ever operate as causes. They may serve as useful indicators of certain general tendencies but they explain nothing.”) Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional collection of notes by Hayek referencing his final thoughts on society.
Price: $45,000.00 Item Number: 142494
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FIRST EDITION OF RICARDOS FUNDAMENTAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE SCIENCE OF ECONOMICS: ON THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY AND TAXATION
RICARDO, DAVID.
On The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation.
London: John Murray 1817.
First edition of David Ricardo’s most important work, a cornerstone of economic theory— one of only 750 copies printed.
Octavo, bound in contemporary half calf. Calf lightly rubbed, a near fine example. Rare in contemporary calf. Bookplate of John Hales Calcraft, member of Parliament in the late 18th century.
Price: $60,000.00 Item Number: 4046
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First Edition of "one of the classical works in the history of economics" and "the beginning of sociology": Frederic Morton Eden's The State of the Poor
EDEN, SIR FREDERIC MORTON.
The State of the Poor: Or an History of the Labouring Classes in England, from the Conquest to the Present Period; in Which are Particularly Considered Their Domestic Economy with Respect to Diet, Dress, Fuel and Habitation.
London: J. Davis, for B. & J. White, G. & G. Robinson, T. Payne 1797.
First edition of this classic work. Quarto, 3 volumes, bound mottled full calf, raised bands, gilt titles to the spine, gilt lined, black morocco spine labels. In excellent condition with the folding table facing p. viii of the appendix in Volume III.
Price: $7,800.00 Item Number: 20029
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"Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares": First Edition of Rosser Reeves' Reality in Advertising; Signed by Him
REEVES, ROSSER.
Reality in Advertising.
New York: Borzoi/ Alfred A. Knopf 1961.
First trade edition, published after the privately printed Ted Bates edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, slipcase. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, “With a promise that this is a very short, short book! Rosser Reeves Oct 8, 1962. Fine in the original glassine wrapper in a fine slipcase. Rare signed.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 30014
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"For it is this understanding which, in part, promotes a climate of freedom within which fruitful and genuinely new ideas- and the science of economics- can progress and prosper": First Edition of A History of Economic Theory and Method; Lengthily Inscribed by Robert Ekelund
ROBERT B. EKELUND, JR. AND ROBERT F. HEBERT.
A History of Economic Theory and Method.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1975.
First edition of this classic work. Small quarto, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by Robert Ekelund on the half-title page, “For John Rogers- For it is this understanding which, in part, promotes a climate of freedom within which fruitful and genuinely new ideas- and the science of economics- can progress and prosper. With all good regards and wishes Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. (Bob Ekelund) March 25, 2015.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 72763
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“Economics, or more properly theoretical economics, is the only one of the social sciences which has aspired to the distinction of an exact science": First Edition of Frank H. Knight's Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit
KNIGHT, FRANK H.
Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit.
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1921.
First edition of Knight’s classic treatise. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In near fine condition. First editions are scarce.
Price: $8,800.00 Item Number: 106575
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FIRST EDITION OF J.M. KEYNES' FIRST MAJOR WORK ON ECONOMICS INDIAN CURRENCY AND FINANCE
KEYNES, JOHN MAYNARD. [J.M.].
Indian Currency and Finance.
London: Macmillan & Co., Limited 1913.
First edition of Keynes’ first major work on economics. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Neat ownership inscription to the front free endpaper.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 136408