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First Edition of Nobel Prize-winning economist Vernon L. Smith's Autobiography Discovery; Inscribed by Him
SMITH, Vernon L.
Discovery: A Memoir.
Bloomington, IL: Author House, 2008.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's memoir. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the title page, "For John with kind regards, Vernon 9-16-2015." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 133721
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George Reisman's The Government Against the Economy; signed by him
REISMAN, George. Introduction by William E. Simon.
The Government Against the Economy: The Story of the U.S. Government’s On-going Destruction of the American Economic System through Price Control.
Ottawa, Illinois: Jameson Books, 1979.
First edition, early printing of Reisman's argument against regulated price controls. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by George Reisman on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 115809
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First Edition of John C. Bogle's Common Sense on Mutual Funds; Signed by Him
BOGLE, John C.
Common Sense on Mutual Funds.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
First edition of the best book on index investing ever published. Octavo, original boards. Signed by John C. Bogle on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Don Welsh. Foreword by Peter L. Bernstein.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 46255
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First Edition of John Bates Clark's Essentials of Economic Theory
CLARK, John Bates.
Essentials of Economic Theory: As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1909.
First edition of this early work by John Bates Clark. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition with light marginala.
Price: $450.00 Item Number: 67031
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First Edition of The Economics of Computers; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist William F. Sharpe
SHARPE, Willam F.
The Economics of Computers.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's early work on computers. Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To James Bill Sharpe." Near fine in a good dust jacket, name to the endpaper.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 133579
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First Edition of Edwin Lefevre's Sampson Rock of Wall Street
LEFEVRE, Edwin.
Sampson Rock of Wall Street.
New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1907.
First edition of the author's first full-length novel and third literary work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. In near fine condition. A very sharp example.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144149
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First edition of John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man; signed by him
PERKINS, John.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2004.
First edition of Perkins' bestselling exposé. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by MBV Design.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 124194
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First Edition of George Soros' The Age of Fallibility; Inscribed by Him
SOROS, George.
The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror.
New York: Public Affairs, 2006.
First edition of this work by the author of The Alchemy of Finance. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by George Soros on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 45092
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First Edition of Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Amartya Sen
SEN, Amartya.
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny.
London: Allen Lane, 2006.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original boards. Signed by the Amartya Sen on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 108931
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First Edition of Microeconomic Theory: A Mathematical Approach; Signed by Richard Quandt
HENDERSON, James M. and Richard E. Quandt.
Microeconomic Theory: A Mathematical Approach.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1958.
First edition of this classic work in microeconomic theory. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Richard Quandt on the front free endpaper. In very good condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 117652
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First edition of Our Bank: The Story of the Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. 1810-1941; signed by John M. Erskine
[ERSKINE, J. M.].
Our Bank: The Story of the Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. 1810-1941.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, n.d. [1941].
First edition of the history of The Commercial Bank of Scotland. Octavo, original cloth decorated in gilt, illustrated, frontispiece portrait of General Manager John M. Erskine. Signed by Erskine beneath his portrait, "J.M. Erskine 27/1/42." Fine in the original dust jacket which is in near fine condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 124099
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First Edition of Linear Programming and Economic Analysis; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Robert M. Solow
SAMUELSON, Paul A.; Robert M. Solow; Robert Dorfman.
Linear Programming and Economic Analysis.
New York: McGraw-Hill Company, Inc, 1958.
First edition of this classic text. Octavo, original gray cloth. Signed by Robert M. Solow on the title page. In very good condition with notes and marginalia.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 133578
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First Edition I Remember Distinctly: A Family Album of the American People, 1918-1941; Signed by Both Frederick Lewis Allen and Agnes Rogers
LEWIS ALLEN, Frederick; Agnes Rogers.
I Remember Distinctly: A Family Album of the American People, 1918-1941.
New York: : Harper & Brother Publishers, 1947.
First edition of this illustrated work of the American people in the early twentieth century. Quarto, original illustrated cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors, "For Dick Lounsbury with the best wishes of the assemblers: Agnes Rogers" and also signed by Frederick Lewis Allen. In very good condition with The Knickerbocker Club stamp in a good dust jacket with wear and tear. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 45091
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"What gets measured gets improved": First Edition of Post-Capitalist Society; Signed by Peter Drucker
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Post-Capitalist Society.
New York: Harper Collins, 1993.
First edition of one of the final works by “the world’s greatest management thinker… deserves to be measured alongside people such as Keynes or Schumpeter” (Economist). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Drucker on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by William Graef.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142025
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First edition of W.A. Appleton's Unemployment: Its Cause and Cure; from the library of John Philip Frey
APPLETON, W.A. [John Philip Frey].
Unemployment: Its Cause and Cure. An Enquiry Authorised by the General Federation of Trade Unions.
London: Philip Allan & Co. LTD, 1928.
First edition of the 1928 report on unemployment issued by the General Federation of Trade Unions. From the library of John Philip Frey with his ownership stamp to the front free endpaper. John Philip Frey was a labor activist and president of the American Federation of Labor’s Metal Trades Department during a crucial period in American labor history. In 1918, Frey became chairman of the National Bureau of Economic Research, helping to raise money and incorporate the organization in 1920. He remained chairman of the board of directors until 1927. During the presidency of AFL president William Green, Frey was…
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142359
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Photograph of Milton Friedman; Signed by Him
FRIEDMAN, Milton.
Milton Friedman Signed Photograph.
1980.
Black and white photograph of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman. Inscribed and dated by Milton Friedman in 1980 on the lower right. In fine condition. The photograph measures 8 inches by 10 inches.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 20008
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Rare First edition of Thorstein Veblen's Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times: The Case of America
VEBLEN, Thorstein.
Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times: The Case of America.
New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1923.
First edition of Veblen's last book. Octavo, original green cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 135297
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FIRST British EDITION OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMIST FRIEDRICH VON WIESER’S "SOCIAL ECONOMICS"
WIESER, Friedrich von.
Social Economics. Translated by A. Ford Hinrichs. With a Preface by Wesley Clair Mitchell.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1927.
First British edition of von Wieser's great sociological study. Octavo, original cloth. Translated by A. Ford Hinrichs. Preface by Wesley Clair Mitchell. In very good condition with the spine gilt bright.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 96798
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First edition of Martin Zweig's Winning on Wall Street; Inscribed by Him
ZWEIG, Martin E.
Winning on Wall Street.
New York: Warner Books, 1986.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "James Best of Luck Marty 4/25/86." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike Stromberg. Jacket photograph by Bob Wolfson. Written with the editorial assistance of Morrie Goldfischer.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 100037
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First Edition of George Gilder's Visible Man: A True Story of Post-Racist America; Inscribed by Him With A Full Page Inscription
GILDER, George.
Visible Man: A True Story of Post-Racist America.
New York: Basic Books, 1978.
First edition of Gilder's seminal first book. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by George Gilder with a full page inscription on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Vincent Torre.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 59027
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“Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society": Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy; In the Rare original dust jacket
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A.
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1950.
Early printing of Schumpeter’s ground-breaking work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144262
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First Edition of Value Investing: A Balanced Approach; signed by Martin J. Whitman
WHITMAN, Martin J.
Value Investing: A Balanced Approach.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original boards. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best wishes Martin J. Whitman." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144681
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First Edition of Murray Rothbard's Masterpiece The Ethics of Liberty
ROTHBARD, Murray N.
The Ethics of Liberty.
Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1982.
First edition of Rothbard's greatest contribution to the politics of freedom. Octavo, original cloth. In fine condition.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 140921
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"What gets measured gets improved": First Edition of Post-Capitalist Society; Signed by Peter Drucker
DRUCKER, Peter F.
Post-Capitalist Society.
New York: Harper Collins, 1993.
First edition of one of the final works by “the world’s greatest management thinker… deserves to be measured alongside people such as Keynes or Schumpeter” (Economist). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Peter Koomans from Peter Drucker." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by William Graef.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 147033
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First Edition of Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice; Lengthily Inscribed by Victor Fuchs
FUCHS, Victor R.
Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice.
New York: Basic Books, 1974.
First edition of "by far, the best book on the subject of medicine as it relates to economics" (Minneapolis Tribune). Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "10/7/85 To Catie and Pod, with appreciation for a lovely evening. All good wishes, Vic." Also laid in is an autographed letter signed to the same recipient Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 107631
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First Edition of Marriner S. Eccles: Private Entrepreneur; inscribed by Him
HYMAN, Sydney [Marriner S. Eccles].
Marriner S. Eccles: Private Entrepreneur and Public Servant.
Stanford: Stanford University Graduate School of Business, 1976.
First edition of this work on the former head of the Federal Reserve. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Henry Dinevosodey with highest regards from Marriner Eccles." Foreword by G.L. Bach. In near fine condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed as Eccles passed away a year after publication.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 141359
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First Edition of Two Lucky People; Signed by Milton and Rose Friedman
FRIEDMAN, Milton & Rose.
Two Lucky People.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.
First edition of this memoir by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and his wife Rose, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by both authors on the half-title page, "For Vernon Paul Rose Friedman and signed below by Milton Friedman. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 72865
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Economist Richard Thaler
THALER, Richard H. and Cass R. Sunstein.
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
First edition, early printing of this revelatory look at how we make decisions. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, "Nudge for good! Richard Thaler." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144495
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First Edition of Amarya Sen's The Argumentative Indian; Inscribed by Him
SEN, Amartya.
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
First edition of this collection of writings on Indian culture compiled by Amartya Sen; the first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Cris, Best wishes Amartya Sen." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Anna Bauer. Jacket art by Kailash Raj. Author photograph by Jon Chase.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 137438
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First Edition of Marriner S. Eccles: Private Entrepreneur; inscribed by Him
HYMAN, Sydney [Marriner S. Eccles].
Marriner S. Eccles: Private Entrepreneur and Public Servant.
Stanford: Stanford University Graduate School of Business, 1976.
First edition of this work on the former head of the former Federal Reserve. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Gordon Sorensen with highest regards from Marriner Eccles." Foreword by G.L. Bach. In near fine condition. Uncommon signed and inscribed as Eccles passed away a year after publication.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 120723
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First Edition of Age Of Diminished Expectations: Signed By Nobel Prize-winning Economist Paul Krugman
KRUGMAN, Paul.
The Age of Diminished Expectations: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990.
First edition of Krugman's straightforward treatise on the position of the American economy in the 1990s. Octavo, original blue cloth. Inscribed by Paul Krugman on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Christopher Volet. Uncommon signed.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 135228
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First Edition of Shiing-Shen Chern: Selected Papers
CHERN, Shiing-Shen.
Shiing-Shen Chern: Selected Papers.
New York: Springer-Verlag, 1978.
First edition of this work by the legendary mathematician. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece of Chern. In very good condition with some dampstaining to the front and rear endpapers. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 146057
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“There are no atheists in foxholes or ideologues in a financial crisis": First Edition of Too Big To Fail; Inscribed by Andrew Ross Sorkin and Gary Parr
SORKIN, Andrew Ross.
Too Big To Fail.
New York: The Viking Press, 2009.
First edition of Ross Sorkin's first book. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ilya Andrew Ross Sorkin" and signed by Gary Parr. Gary Parr was Deputy Chairman and on the board of directors of Lazard, LLC. Prior to that, he was with Morgan Stanley as Vice Chairman, Head of Global Financial Institutions and Co-Head of the Global M&A Group. Label to the copyright page, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Heads of State.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 102768
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First Edition of The Shapley Value; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin Roth
ROTH, Alvin E. [Lloyd Shapley].
The Shapley Value: Essays in Honor of Lloyd S. Shapley.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
First edition of this work regarding the papers of Nobel Prize winner Lloyd Shapley. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Alvin Roth on the front free endpaper, "For James, Alvin E. Roth." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ken Vail.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 116176
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First edition of Paul Krugman's Exchange-Rate Instability; inscribed by him
KRUGMAN, Paul.
Exchange-Rate Instability.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1989.
First edition of Krugman's provocative analysis of the extraordinary exchange-rate volatility of the 1980s. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For William, Paul R. Krugman." Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 114546
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First Edition of Thomas C. Schelling's Strategies of Commitment; Inscribed by Him
SCHELLING, Thomas C.
Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
First edition of this collection of essays by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Thomas C. Schelling on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 77549
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First edition of George P. Shultz's Leaders and Followers in an age of Ambiguity; inscribed by him to American journalist William Safire
SHULTZ, George P. [William Safire].
Leaders and Followers in an Age of Ambiguity: The Charles C. Moskowitz Memorial Lectures.
New York: New York University Press, 1975.
First edition of the sixteenth book in the Charles C. Moskowitz Memorial Lecture Series. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Bill Safire with my admiration for the quality of your thought... and the courage of your convictions and with many thanks for all your help and your friendship George P. Shultz." The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter and a close friend of the then Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin. Safire joined Nixon’s campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and again in 1968.…
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 133041
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First Edition of Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now; Signed by Felix Rohatyn
ROHATYN, Felix.
Bold Endeavors: How Our Government Built America, and Why It Must Rebuild Now.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009.
First edition of this work by the legendary banker. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Felix Rohatyn on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jackie Seow.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 147196
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First Edition of The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis; Signed by Ben Bernanke
BERNANKE, Ben.
The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.
Later printing of this collection of lectures given by the former chief of the Federal Reserve. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the half-title page, "Best wishes Ben Bernanke." Also laid in is a signed business card from Bernanke. In near fine condition.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 147189
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First Edition of Growth/Productivity/Unemployment: Essays to Celebrate Bob Solow's Birthday; Signed by both Robert Solow and Peter Diamond
SOLOW, Robert. Edited by Peter Diamond.
Growth/ Productivity/ Unemployment: Essays to Celebrate Bob Solow’s Birthday.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1990.
First edition of this collection of essays compiled to celebrate the Nobel Prize-winning economist's birthday; signed by two Nobel Peace-prize winning economists. Signed by Robert Solow below his frontispiece portrait and editor Peter Diamond on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 90367
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Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Peter Diamond
DIAMOND, Peter and James A. Mirrlees.
The American Economic Review.
American Economic Review, 1971.
Octavo, original wrappers. Contains the well-known paper by Nobel Prize-winning economists, Peter Diamond and James Mirrlees, Optimal Taxation and Public Production II. Boldly signed by Peter Diamond on the front free endpaper.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 5732
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“DEMOCRACY IS ESSENTIALLY A MEANS, A UTILITARIAN DEVICE FOR SAFEGUARDING INTERNAL PEACE AND INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM”: THE ROAD TO SERFDOM
HAYEK, Friedrich August von [F.A.].
The Road to Serfdom.
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1944.
Seventh printing of the first edition of one of the most influential and popular expositions of classical liberalism. Octavo, original cloth. Foreword by John Chamberlain. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $375.00 Item Number: 146177
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First Edition of Murray Rothbard's Classic Work The Mystery of Banking
ROTHBARD, Murray N.
The Mystery of Banking.
New York: Richardson and Snyder, 1983.
First edition of this work which explains the modern fractional-reserve banking system and its origins. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some light wear.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 139900
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"The wife who wants her husband to succeed must develop more of the hardy spirit of our pioneers": First edition of Dorothy Carnegie's How To Help Your Husband Get Ahead in His Social and Business Life; signed by her
CARNEGIE, Dorothy.
How To Help Your Husband Get Ahead in His Social and Business Life.
New York: Greystone Press, 1953.
First edition of Dorothy Carnegie's essential 1953 guide for the housewife, offering practical advice to help the husband succeed in the style of her husband, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Dorothy Carnegie on the front free endpaper. Near fine in the original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Uncommon signed.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 96136
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First Edition of Economist Joseph A. Schumpeter's Imperialism and Social Classes
SCHUMPETER, Joseph A.
Imperialism and Social Classes.
New York: Augustus M. Kelley, Inc, 1951.
First edition of this work by the famed economist. Octavo, original cloth. Economist Robert K. Arnold's copy with his signature to the front free endpaper. Translated by Heinz Norden. Edited with an introduction by Paul M Sweezy. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 5508
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First Edition of Rethinking International Trade; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman
KRUGMAN, Paul.
Rethinking International Trade.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990.
First edition of this early work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "To William Paul Krugman." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 87512
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First Edition of Economic Development; Inscribed by John Kenneth Galbraith in the year of publication
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth.
Economic Development.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press , 1964.
First edition of this classic work by the famed economist. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Stuart Chase with all good wishes John Gailbraith May 1964." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marcia Tate.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 146088
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First Edition of A Critical Essay on Modern Macroeconomic Theory; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Robert Solow
HAHN, Frank and Robert Solow.
A Critical Essay on Modern Macroeconomic Theory.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 45079
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First Edition of Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Andrew Ward's Firing Back; lengthily inscribed by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
SONNENFELD, Jeffrey; Andrew Ward.
Firing Back: How Great Leaders Rebound After Career Disasters.
Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007.
First edition of Sonnenfeld and Ward's collection of professional comeback stories. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Sonnenfeld on the front free endpaper with a full-page inscription, "7/24/08 To David a brilliant inspiring, candid leader and wise experienced consultant - Best wishes - Jeff Sonnendfeld." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike Fender.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 121090
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First Edition of Nobel Prize-winning economist Vernon L. Smith's Autobiography Discovery; Inscribed by Him
SMITH, Vernon L.
Discovery: A Memoir.
Bloomington, IL: Author House, 2008.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's memoir. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For John with warm regards, Vernon L. Smith Oct 29, 2014." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 107991
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First Edition of the author’s "tour de force" The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession; Inscribed by Peter Bernstein
BERNSTEIN, Peter.
The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession.
New York: Wiley, 2000.
First edition of this work on the history of gold. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For William good as gold- Peter Bernstein." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 322
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First Edition of John Maynard Keynes: Fighting For Freedom; Signed by Robert Skidelsky
SKIDELSKY, Robert.
John Maynard Keynes: Fighting For Freedom, 1937-1946.
New York: Viking, 2000.
First edition of this biography on the legendary economist. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by Robert Skidelsky on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 16014
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First Edition of Murray Rothbard's Classic Work The Mystery of Banking
ROTHBARD, Murray N.
The Mystery of Banking.
New York: Richardson and Snyder, 1983.
First edition of this work which explains the modern fractional-reserve banking system and its origins. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some light wear.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 146163
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First Edition of Ken Fisher's The Wall Street Waltz; Inscribed by Him
FISHER, Kenneth L.
The Wall Street Waltz: 90 Visual Perspectives Illustrated Lessons from Financial Cycles and Trends.
Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1987.
First edition of this work which provides a look at Wall Street and the stock market's history through dramatic charts and visuals. Oblong quarto, original boards, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed on by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Lee, When I told by 16 year old about your Dad and the flat tire he acknowledged that he wouldn't be able to top that. It was fun seeing you last week. Hope you like this. Ken Fisher 6/20/87." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Georgene Sainati.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 57645
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First edition of Structural Slumps: The Modern Equilibrium Theory of Unemployment, Interest, and Money; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund S. Phelps
PHELPS, Edmund S. In collaboration with Hiam Teck Hoon.
Structural Slumps: The Modern Equilibrium Theory of Unemployment, Interest, and Money.
Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1994.
First edition of Phelps' important contribution to understanding the business cycle. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Edmund Phelps on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gwen Frankfeldt.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 95092
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"It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world": Finely Bound set of William Cobbett's Paper Against Gold and Collective Commentaries
COBBETT, William.
Cobbett’s Paper Against Gold and Collective Commentaries.
London: John M. Cobbett, 1821-1822.
Finely bound example of the political commentaries of late sixteenth century English political figure and pamphleteer William Cobbett. Octavo, two volumes, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, black morocco spine labels, gilt titles and tooling to the spine. In very good condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 81168
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“Start with the end in mind": First Edition of The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People
COVEY, Stephen R.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.
First edition of this best-selling work, which has went on to sell more than 25 million copies. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by Barry Littmann.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 133401
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Sixteeen Issues of The Financial World: Independent Appraisals of Listed Stocks
THE FINANCIAL WORLD: INDEPENDENT APPRAISALS OF LISTED STOCKS,.
The Financial World: Independent Appraisals of Listed Stocks.
16 issues dating from November 1930-June 1933. In very good condition. Uncommon wall street ephemera from the 1930's.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 5654
