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First Edition of Thomas Szasz's Law, Liberty and Psychiatry; From the library of Nobel Prize-winning economist James M. Buchanan
SZASZ, Thomas S. [James M. Buchanan].
Law, Liberty and Psychiatry.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963.
First edition of this classic work, from the library of Nobel Prize-winning economist James M. Buchanan with his signature to the front free endpaper. Buchanan was an economist known for his work on public choice theory originally outlined in his most famous work co-authored with Gordon Tullock in 1962, The Calculus of Consent, then developed over decades for which he received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986. Buchanan's work initiated research on how politicians' and bureaucrats' self-interest, utility maximization, and other non-wealth-maximizing considerations affect their decision-making. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ward and Saks.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 133734
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First Edition of Richard Thaler's The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life; Signed by Him
THALER, Richard.
The Winner’s Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life.
New York: Free Press, 1989.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's groundbreaking book. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Richard Thaler on the title page. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Mike Stromberg.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 60041
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Rare First Edition of Robert M. Solow's Growth Theory; Signed by Him
SOLOW, Robert M.
Growth Theory: An Exposition.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by Robert M. Solow on the title page. In near fine condition, with a name to the front panel and front free endpaper.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 46011
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First Edition of In China; Inscribed by Eve Arnold to Henry Kissinger
ARNOLD, Eve [Henry A. Kissinger].
In China.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.
First edition of this monograph on China. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Henry Kissinger, "For Henry Kissinger in whose giant footsteps I followed in China, and it was a tough act to follow! All good wishes, Eve Arnold." Arnold is referring to the slow opening throughout the 1970s of Communist China to Westerners, an opening famously managed on the United States end by protean Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, in collaboration with Presidents Richard Nixon and President Gerald Ford. Kissinger would later write his classic work On China, detailing…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 5313
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First Edition of Nobel Prize Winning Economist's Thomas C. Schelling's First Book; Inscribed by Him
SCHELLING, Thomas C.
National Income Behavior: An Introduction to Algebraic Analysis.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1951.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed and dated by Thomas Schelling on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 44748
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FIRST EDITION OF MERTON MILLER ON DERIVATIVES: INSCRIBED BY HIM
MILLER, Merton H.
Merton Miller on Derivatives.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's work on derivatives. Octavo, original black boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Mike Lynch with best wishes, Merton H. Miller Chicago, March 19, 1998."
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 3714
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First Edition of Adam Smith's Paper Money; Inscribed by Him in the year of publication
SMITH, Adam [George Goodman].
Paper Money.
New York: Summit Books, 1981.
First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, "Fr Shecters-san! Thanks for all with best wishes Jerry 'Adam Smith' 2/2/81." Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 112445
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First Edition of Studies in the Theory of Capital Markets; Signed by Michael C. Jensen and Joseph E. Stiglitz
JENSEN, Michael C; Merton H. Miller; Myron Scholes; Fischer Black; Eugene F. Fama; John B. Long Jr; David Mayers; Martin J. Bailey; Joseph E. Stiglitz.
Studies in the Theory of Capital Markets.
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972.
First edition of this classic collection of papers on capital theory. Octavo, original green cloth, illustrated with tables, graphs, and equations. Signed and dated by Michael C. Jensen and Joseph E. Stiglitz on the front free endpaper, "Michael C. Jensen 3/28/2014 Joseph E. Stiglitz." In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 145252
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First edition of John W. Milnor's Topology From the Differentiable Viewpoint; signed by him
MILNOR, John W .
Topology From the Differentiable Viewpoint.
Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1965.
First edition of this collection of lectures delivered by Milnor at the University of Virginia in December 1963. Octavo, original half cloth over illustrated boards. Signed by John Milnor on the title page. In fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 114852
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First Edition of The Shapley Value; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning economists Alvin Roth and Robert Aumann
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 Nobel Prize-winning economists on the front free endpaper, "Best wishes to John Rogers, Alvin E. Roth Stanford, 4 Nov '13" and "For John Bob Aumann." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Ken Vail.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 132360
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First Edition of Thomas J. Sargent's Macroeconomic Theory; Inscribed by Him
SARGENT, Thomas J.
Macroeconomic Theory.
New York: Academic Press, 1979.
First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning economist's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To James Best wishes, Thomas J. Sargent." In near fine condition, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 106789
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First Edition of Rationality and Freedom; Inscribed by Amartya Sen
SEN, Amartya.
Rationality and Freedom.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press/ Belknap Press, 2002.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To John my best wishes and regards Amartya Sen Nov 3, 2015." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gwen Nefsky Frankfeldt.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144399
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“Knowledge advances when striking real-world events and issues pose puzzles we have to try to understand and resolve. The most important decisions a scholar makes are what problems to work on": First Edition of Essays in Economics; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow
TOBIN, James [Robert M. Solow].
Essays in Economics: Volume 1 Macroeconomics.
Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1971.
First edition of this collection of essays. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert M. Solow, who contributed an article in this volume. Name to the front free endpaper, in near fine condition.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 5556
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First Edition of Modern Security Analysis; Inscribed by Martin Whitman
WHITMAN, Martin J. and Fernando Diz.
Modern Security Analysis: Understanding Wall Street Fundamentals.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
First edition of this modern classic. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To John: Nice to communicate with you after all those years. Martin J. Whitman." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul McCarthy. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 144591
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"The Basis for the Standard Finance Model" First Edition of Gerard Debreu's Theory of Value
DEBREU, Gerard.
Theory of Value: An Axiomatic Analysis of Economic Equilibrium.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1959.
First edition of the groundbreaking work by Debreu, winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Economics, viewed as "one of the few classics of our period" by the prestigious American Economic Review for his revolutionary insights into the economics of "'general equilibrium"—demonstrating a "freely competitive economy can, in theory, reach a state in which supply balances demand in every market… an entire economy could, at least theoretically if not necessarily in fact, be in equilibrium" (Time). Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition, lacking the dust jacket. First editions are scarce.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 121497
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First Edition of The Nobel Prize-Winning Economist's Groundbreaking Work The Economic Growth of the United States 1790-1860; Inscribed by Him
NORTH, Douglass C.
The Economic Growth of the United States 1790-1860.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1961.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original gray cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the dedication page, "For Paul Douglass C. North." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 3035
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First edition of David Dreman's Contrarian Investment Strategy: The Psychology of Stock Market Success; inscribed by him to fellow economist John Pugsley
DREMAN, David.
Contrarian Investment Strategy: The Psychology of Stock Market Success.
New York: Random House, 1979.
First edition of Dreman's revolutionary work on the stock market success. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To John Pugsley with best personal regards David Druman 1/1/80." The recipient, John Pugsley was an American voluntaryist libertarian political, economics commentator, lecturer, and best-selling author. In the late 1960s Pugsley entered the investment business, founded a publishing company, the Common Sense Press, and wrote his first book, Common Sense Economics. It sold over 150,000 hardcover copies. His second book, The Alpha Strategy (1980), was on the New York Times bestseller list for nine…
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 133045
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First Edition of Bob Woodward's Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom; Signed by Him and Alan Greenspan
WOODWARD, Bob [Alan Greenspan].
Maestro: Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
First edition of the definitive biography on the former chairman of The Federal Chairman by the author of All the President's Men. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed "Bob Woodward 3/31/2012 on the title page. Additionally signed by Alan Greenspan on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Accordino. We have never seen another example signed by both Woodward and Greenspan.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 133825
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First Edition of Capital Ideas; Signed by Peter L. Bernstein
BERNSTEIN, Peter L.
Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street.
New York: The Free Press, 1992.
First edition of the author's most well-known work. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Peter Bernstein on the front free endpaper. With a signed postcard to the author from Bernstein's editor laid in. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Michael Langenstein.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 115654
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First Edition of Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey; Signed by Howard Raiffa
LUCE, R. Duncan and Howard Raiffa.
Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Publishers, 1957.
First edition of this classic introduction to game theory. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Howard Raiffa on the front free endpaper. From the library of Harvard economist Sidney S. Alexander with his name to the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 127657