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First Edition of Learning from ‘Learning by Doing’: Lessons for Economic Growth; Signed by Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Robert Solow
SOLOW, Robert.
Learning from ‘Learning by Doing’: Lessons for Economic Growth (Kenneth J. Arrow Lectures).
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert Solow on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 32004
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First Edition of Niall Ferguson's Civilization: The West and the Rest; Inscribed by Him
FERGUSON, Niall.
Civilization: The West and the Rest.
New York: The Penguin Press, 2011.
First edition of this work by the famed historian. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To John with best wishes Niall Ferguson." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 132746
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First Edition of Alvin Hansen's Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles
HANSEN, Alvin H.
Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1941.
First edition of this work by the "American Keynes." Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good price-clipped dust jacket with chipping and wear. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 2272
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"The world has lost one of the very few with the imagination, courage, and leadership needed to restore civilization and build a firm economic base for peace and happiness": The June 1946 issue of the The Economic Journal, containing a notice of Keynes' death and his posthumously printed article: The Balance of Payments of the United States
HARROD, R.F. and E.A.G. Robinson.
The Economic Journal: The Quarterly Journal of The Royal Economic Society. June 1946. [The Balance of Payments of the United States].
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1946.
The June 1946 issue of the The Economic Journal, containing a notice of Keynes' death and his posthumously printed article: The Balance of Payments of the United States. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition. Ink notation to the front panel.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 135307
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First Edition of In Defense of Globalization; Inscribed by Jagdish Bhagwati
BHAGWATI, Jaqdish.
In Defense of Globalization.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
First edition of this "outstandingly effective book" (The Economist). Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Fannie with warm regards, Professor Bhagwati." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Kathleen M. Lynch.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 107289
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First Edition of Rethinking Housing Bubbles; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Vernon L. Smith
GJERSTAD, Steven and Vernon L. Smith.
Rethinking Housing Bubbles: The Role of Household and Bank Balance Sheets in Modeling Economic Cycles.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original glossy boards. Signed and dated by Vernon Smith on the title page. In fine condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 68022
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Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions; Signed by John Kotter
KOTTER, John and Holger Rathgeber.
Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions.
Privately Printed, 2006.
First edition of the privately printed edition of this classic work. Octavo, original boards. Signed by John Kotter on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Spencer Johnson. With artwork by Peter Mueller.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 107649
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First edition of Michael A. Bernstein's The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929-1939
BERNSTEIN, Michael A.
The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929-1939.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
First edition of Bernstein's analysis of the Great Depression. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Peter Miller.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 127013
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First Edition of Martin Mayer's The Bankers; Inscribed by Him
MAYER, Martin.
The Bankers.
New York: Weybright and Talley, 1974.
First edition of this exploration of the world of modern banking. Octavo, original cloth. Warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Charlie Malloy with regards and thanks- Martin Mayer." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 70059
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First edition of Gene M. Grossman and Elhanan Helpman's Innovation and Growth in the Global Economy
GROSSMAN, Gene M. and Elhanan Helpman.
Innovation and Growth in the Global Economy.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1991.
First edition of the economists' groundbreaking work on trade theory. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Purnima Sahgal.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 128384
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"If you're truly interested in investing rationally, you must discard the illusion that analysts alternate between periods of super-human insight and bouts of astonishing obtuseness": First edition of Martin S. Fridson's Investment Classic; Inscribed by Him
FRIDSON, Martin S.
Investment Illusions: A Savvy Wall Street Pro Explodes Popular Misconceptions About the Markets.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1993.
First edition of American financial expert Martin Fridson's guide to Wall Street. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Matthew - Hoping you'll avoid these scares and have great success with your investments! Marty Fridson." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 88136
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John Kotter's The Heart of Change; Inscribed by Him
KOTTER, John.
The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations.
Cambridge: Harvard Business School, 2002.
Early printing of this organizational work by Kotter. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Tim John Kotter." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike Fender.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 107819
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First Edition of The Great Society: Lessons for the Future; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow
GINZBERG, Eli and Robert M. Solow.
The Great Society: Lessons for the Future.
New York: Basic Books, 1974.
First edition of this collection of essays regarding The Great Society. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Robert M. Solow on the title page. Review copy with the slip laid in. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 43098
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First Edition of Joseph E. Stiglitz's The Great Divide; Signed by Him
STIGLITZ, Joseph E.
The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Joseph E. Stiglitz on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 32069
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First Edition of Making the Market: Victorian Origins of Corporate Capitalism; Inscribed by Paul Johnson
JOHNSON, Paul.
Making the Market: Victorian Origins of Corporate Capitalism.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
First edition of this innovative study which reveals how and why capitalist institutions were created and the moral, economic and legal assumptions behind them. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Marilyn With best wishes Paul." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Hart McLeod.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 141813
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Rare first edition of National Bank Organization 1812-1904
National Bank Organization 1812-1904.
New York: The National City Bank of New York, 1904.
First edition of this detailed work on the organization of the National City Bank. Octavo, original cloth. In fine condition.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 124768
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First Edition of Evaluation and Measurement of Investment Performance
KIRBY, Robert G.; John W. O'Brien; Myron S. Scholes; Rodger F. Smith; Jack L. Treynor.
Evaluation and Measurement of Investment Performance.
Charlottesville: The Financial Analysts Research Foundation, 1977.
First edition of this collection of essays on investment performance. Octavo, original wrappers. In fine condition.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 117761
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First Edition of Alvin Hansen's Business Cycles and National Income
HANSEN, Alvin H.
Business Cycles and National Income.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1951.
First edition of this work by the "American Keynes." Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 4286
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First Edition of John Maynard Keynes' Two Memoirs. Dr. Melchior: A Defeated Enemy And My Early Beliefs
KEYNES, John Maynard [J.M.].
Two Memoirs. Dr. Melchior: A Defeated Enemy And My Early Beliefs.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1949.
First edition of this memoir by the famed economist. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece photograph of Keynes, Bertrand Russell and Lytton Strachey at Garsington. Introduction by David Garnett. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips and wear. Uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 135355
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First edition of John Maynard Keynes' The Means to Prosperity
KEYNES, John Maynard [J.M.].
The Means to Prosperity.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1933.
First edition of the enlarged version of four of Keynes' articles printed in The Times in March 1933, making his case for counter-cyclical public spending. Octavo, original wrappers. Library stamp.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 135403
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Ludwig von Mises' Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution; With a New Introduction by Murray Rothbard
VON MISES, Ludwig; Preface by Murray N. Rothbard.
Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution.
Auburn: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1985.
First edition of the re-issue of this classic work, the first to feature a preface by Murray N. Rothbard. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Preface by Murray N. Rothbard.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 104223
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First edition in English of Ragnar Frisch's Theory of Production
FRISCH, Ragnar.
Theory of Production.
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1965.
First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian economist's work on production theory. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 127011
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Ludwig von Mises' Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
VON MISES, Ludwig.
Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War.
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1969.
First edition of the re-issue of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, bookplate.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 120643
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First Edition of The Perpetual Dream: Reform and Experiment in the American College
GRANT, Gerald; David Riesman.
The Perpetual Dream: Reform and Experiment in the American College.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
First edition of this work by famed sociologist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "For the Institute of Advanced Study with appreciation David Riesman December, 1978." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 62018
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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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First Edition of George Gilder's Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World; signed by Him
GILDER, George.
Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing Our World.
Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2013.
First edition of Gilder's work, which introduces an all-new paradigm-shifting theory of capitalism. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by George Gilder on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by J. Henry Pereira.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 135625
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Daniel Yergin's The Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money and Power; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
YERGIN, Daniel.
The Prize. The Epic Quest For Oil, Money and Power.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
Early printing of "the best history of oil ever written" (Business Week), which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Jack- With gratitude for the opportunity to be part of the AMC '91 and appreciation for the gracious hospitality Best wishes, Daniel Yergin Jan 3, '99 Pittsburgh." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 120452
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First edition of Britain's Industrial Future. Being the Report of the Liberal Industrial Inquiry
VARIOUS AUTHORS. [KEYNES, J.M.; David Lloyd George].
Britain’s Industrial Future. Being the Report of the Liberal Industrial Inquiry.
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1928.
First edition, second impression of this collection of essays put forth by the Liberal Industrial Inquiry, members of which include David Lloyd George and John Maynard Keynes. Octavo, original wrappers In very good condition. Ownership inscription.
Price: $125.00 Item Number: 135700
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First Edition of Paul Krugman's End This Depression Now!; Signed by Him
KRUGMAN, Paul.
End This Depression Now!
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Paul Krugman on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jon Gray.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 128646
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First Edition of John Kenneth Galbraith's The Age Of Uncertainty; Signed by Him
GALBRAITH, John Kenneth.
The Age Of Uncertainty.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977.
First edition of this work by the famed economist. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by John Kenneth Galbraith on the front free endpage. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 2761
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Rare first edition of Fifty Years of Banking in Chicago 1857-1907
HARPER, William Hudson and Charles H. Ravell.
Fifty Years of Banking in Chicago 1857-1907.
np: The Merchants' Loan and Trust Company, nd.
First edition of one of the earliest works on the history of banking in Chicago. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. In fine condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 124773
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First edition of J. M. Reid's The History of The Clydesdale Bank 1838-1938
REID, J. M.
The History of The Clydesdale Bank 1838-1938.
London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1938.
First edition of Reid's authoritative history of the Clydesdale Bank. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, engraved frontispiece portrait of James Lumsden, the first chairman of the bank. Very good in the scarce original dust jacket which is in very good condition. With the Clydesdale Bank's complimentary slip laid in.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 124093
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The American Economy in Transition
FELDSTEIN, Martin.
The American Economy in Transition.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980.
First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper, "To Lee Bach With Best Wishes Martin Feldstein." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited and with an introduction by Martin Feldstein. Includes articles by Milton Friedman, Paul A. Samuelson, George P. Schultz, Alan S. Blinder, Irving Kristol and Simon Kuznets.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 102797
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In the Wake of the Crisis; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz
STIGLITZ, Joseph; Olivier Blanchard; David Romer and Michael Spence.
In the Wake of the Crisis: Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012.
Early printing of this work in which prominent economists reconsider the fundamentals of economic policy for a post-crisis world. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 10900
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First edition of Robert F. Bruner and Sean D. Carr's The Panic of 1907; lengthily inscribed by Robert F. Bruner
BRUNER, Robert F. and Sean D. Carr.
The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm.
Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2007.
First edition of Bruner and Carr's analysis of financial markets through a detailed narrative of the Panic of 1907. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by Robert F. Bruner opposite the title page, "For Terry Cabot, Old friend. Best personal regards. Whatever happens in financial markets, Don't Panic! Robert F. Bruner." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael F. Freeland.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 114682
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First edition of Alfred D. Chandler Jr.'s Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism
CHANDLER JR., Alfred D.
Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism.
Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1990.
First edition of the continuation of Chandler's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork, The Visible Hand. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Richard A. Chase.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 127043
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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
VON NEUMANN, John & Oscar Morgenstern.
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
First edition of the sixtieth anniversary edition. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Pamela Lewis Schnitter.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 140960
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First edition of Peter Howitt's The Keynesian Recovery and Other Essays
HOWITT, Peter [John Maynard Keynes].
The Keynesian Recovery and Other Essays.
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1990.
First edition of Howitt's collected essays analyzing Keynesian and Walrasian economics. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "John with best wishes Peter Howitt." Laid in is an additional note inscribed by the author which reads, "12/9/14 John, With best wishes and many thanks for the kind words. Peter." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 110737
