The Question of National Defense.

MORGENSTERN, Oskar.

Item Number: 108934

New York: Random House, 1959.

First edition of this work by the famed economist. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated in the year of publication by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Sam with kind regards Oskar Morgernstern Dec. 1959.” Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Stan Phillips.

Oskar Morgenstern was a German-born economist. In collaboration with mathematician John von Neumann, he founded the mathematical field of game theory and its application to economics.