‎Sciences economiques‎

‎Verhandlungen des Vereins zur Beförderung des Gewerbefleißes in Preußen. Jahrgang 7. Redakteur: (Ernst Ludwig) Schubarth.‎

‎Berlin, A. Petsch, 1828. 4to. VI, 308 S. Mit 42 Kupfertafeln u. 13 Textholzschnitten. Marmorierter Pappband d. Zeit (berieben, Ecken u. Kanten bestoßen). [2 Warenabbildungen]‎

‎Siebter Jahrgang der von 1822 bis 1930 erschienenen Zeitschrift. U.a. über Fabrikation von Spielkarten, Strohhüten und Glasdächern, über gußeiserne Schleusentore im Clodnitz-Kanal, die Weidendammerbrücke in Berlin (mit 3 Tafeln), Brennkraftmesser, die Dampfschiffahrt auf Mittel- und Niederrhein, Seidenbau, Uhrenöl, Papierfabrikation in Frankreich, den Tunnel unter der Themse (4 Tafeln), die Kettenbrücken von Aber-Conwy, Hammersmith und über die Meerenge Menai (8 Tafeln) u.a.m. - Kirchner 3945; Kirchner, Dt. Zeitschriftenwesen II, 49 f. - Tafeln meist gebräunt oder stockfleckig, Text weniger betroffen. Titel beidseitig mit alten Stempeln. Exlibris.‎

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‎Voice of the Millionaire Volume I: a Quantitative Analysis of High-Net-Worth Client Financial Behavior‎

‎Washington DC: Corporate Executive Board 1998. From the VIP Forum/Corporate Executive Board. Profile of the High-Net-Worth client Scorecard on Marketplace Offerings; Levers to Enhance Client Performance; Detailed Segment Analysis. Contents include: Profile of the High-Net-Worth Client; Scorecard on Marketplace Offerings; Levers to Enchance Client Preference; Current Comprehensive Relationship Benchmarks; Detailed Segment Analysis. 270 bright white pages. Ex-corporate library with only a label inside front cover. Edgewear light crease on top of front cover. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. Corporate Executive Board Paperback‎

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‎VOYAGE de Robertson aux Terres Australes, traduit sur le manuscrit anglois.‎

‎Amsterdam (France), 1767. (4), 474 pp. Small 8vo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, green label with gilt lettering. Hartig 59; Trousson pp. 161-162; Gove p. 356; INED 3858; cf.: Negley 979. Rare second issue of the first edition (1766) of this utopian novel in which, in the vein of Rousseau, the newly discovered people of an (Australian) island are praised for their political and social institutions (thereby condamning the European counterparts). Utopian account of which it is suggested that it is a translation from the English. The work is evidently inspired by the Physiocratic ideas and draws also inspiration from Rousseau's Contrat Social. Contains also political, economical and moral ideas, points to the importance of agriculture and population, and pleads for the nationalization of the trade. The Encyclopedists appear as the 'Pansophistes' and are criticized (pp. 146 and ff.) The main story is that the hero has sailed with Sir Francis Drake to South America and, through his narrative, to have inspired William Penn to found an ideal city in North America. For an extensive description of this interesting work see: Van Wijngaarden, Les Odyssées philosophiques en France entre 1616 et 1789, pp. 216-225.‎

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‎Was schwere Auflagen schwerer mache. Neckers Wort mit einem Vorworte von Adam Graf von Moltke.‎

‎Kiel Verlag der academischen Buchhandlung 1818. . Neckers Verwaltung der Finanzen Frankreichs. - Jacques Necker 1732-1804 Genfer Bankier u. Politiker Finanzminister Ludwigs XVI. - Adam Wilhelm von Moltke 1785-1864 dänischer Politiker 1831-1848 Finanzminister 1848-1852 Ministerpräsident. - Stellenw. stockfleckig Kiel, Verlag der academischen Buchhandlung, 1818. unknown‎

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‎Werden und Wirken. Henkel & Cie Düsseldorf 1876-1926.‎

‎Düsseldorf Hausdruckerei 1926. . Festschrift zum 50jährigen Bestehen von Henkel. Über den Werdegang der Firma die Produktion von Seifen Scheuerpulvern Ata Waschpulver Persil und Bleichsoda Wasserglas Ätznatron Klebstoffen u.a. Die Wäscher und das Waschen Vorbehandlung Persil und seine Wirkung die Organisation der Firma u.a. Labor technische Abteilung Werbung Fabrikfeuerwehr und die Wohfahrtspflege u.a. Henkelstiftung und das Henkelhaus auf der GeSoLei Große Ausstellung Düsseldorf 1926 für Gesundheitspflege soziale Fürsorge und Leibesübungen. - Gutes sauberes Exemplar (Düsseldorf, Hausdruckerei, 1926). unknown‎

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‎Work, Employment and Society: A Journal of the British Sociological Assciation: Volume 20, Number 2 June 2006‎

‎pages are clean, bright and tight‎

‎WÖRTERBUCH DER VOLKSWIRTSCHAFT. Herausgegeben von Ludwig Elster. 2., völlig umgearbeitete Auflage. 2 Bde.‎

‎Jena, Fischer, 1906/07. IV, 1160; 1444 S. Tabellen. Hlwd.‎

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‎Yale Review : Old Series May 1892-Feb. 1911 Set Reprints of Economic Classics Ser.‎

‎Fairfield NJ U.S.A.: Augustus M. Kelley Publishers 1969. Reprint . Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. In 20 volumes. Three of the volumes have boards with light rubbing. Otherwise very tight clean copies. Extra postage required. <br/> <br/> Augustus M. Kelley Publishers hardcover‎

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‎Zu was dient die Lebensversicherung? Ein Wort an Jedermann.‎

‎Hannover, Riemschneider, 1870. 16 S. Bedruckter Originalumschlag (etwas verstaubt u. stockfleckig).‎

‎Werbeschrift der "Caisse Générale des Familles Lebens-Versicherung-Gesellschaft" Paris. - Stark gebräunt, 1 Bl. mit Stempel "Betriebs-Director der Caisse des Familles ... F. Holst Hannover". Vermutlich fehlt 1 Tabelle.‎

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‎ÉTUDES ÉCONOMIQUES ET SOCIALES:. Publ. a l'occasion du XXVe anniversaire de la fondation de la faculté des sciences économiques et sociales de l'université de Genève. Préface de M. Eugéne Pittard. Mit Beiträgen von A. Babel, C. Burky etc.‎

‎Genf, Georg, 1941. 449 S. Kart.‎

‎Publication de la Faculté des Sciences Économique et Sociales de l'Universite de Genève, 3. - U. a. mit dem Beitrag von Jean Piaget "Essai sur la théorie des valeurs qualitatives en sociologie statique ('synchronique')".‎

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‎"(BANG, F.L.) - ""DEN DANSKE MØNTREVOLUTION""‎

‎Betænkninger i Anledning af det vigtige Rygte om en nye Mynt = Indretning i Holsteen.‎

‎Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendals Forlag, 1787. Uden omslag. (4),29 pp.‎

‎Originaltrykket af det skrift som startede ""Pjecekrigen"" . Det var F.L. Bang, som med sit anonyme skrift ""Betænkninger i Anledning af det vigtige Rygte om en ny Møntindretning i Holsten"" 1786, åbnede ""Pjecekrigen"" om den nye møntindretning i Holsten og oprettelsen af banken i Altona. - ""Pjecekrigen"" kan med en vis ret betegnes som grundlæggende for dansk økonomisk teori.Bibl. Danica II:862.‎

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‎"(CANTILLON, RICHARD).‎

‎Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en général. Traduit de l'anglois. - [THE FOUNDATION OF ECONOMIC THEORY]‎

‎A Londres, Chez Fletcher Gyles, dans Holborn, 1755. 12mo (17x10 cm). Bound in a nice, contemporary full mottled calf binding with five raised bands to richly gilt spine. All edges of boards with a single gilt line-decoration. Beautiful marbled edges. Very neat and professional restorations to hinges and upper capital. A single tiny worm-hole to middle of spine and a supeficial, barely noticeable, crack down the middle. Old paper-label to lower compartment of spine. One corner a bit worn. Small ex libris to inside of front board, ex libris stamp to half-title. Contemporary owner's name crossed out at title-page. Internally exceptionally nice and clean. Small worm-hole to inner margin of about 60 leaves towards the end, only just touching the edge of a very few letters, otherwise not affecting lettering at all. (4), 430, (6, -Table des Chapitres) pp.‎

‎First edition of one of the most important works in the history of economic thought. Cantillon’s work is a pioneering attempt to describe the economy as an interdependent system governed by underlying laws of cause and effect. The author is considered a pioneer of economic theory who anticipated and influenced the likes of Smith, Malthus, Turgot, Quesnay, Mirabeau, etc., etc. and this, his only published work, is considered the first actual work of theoretical economics, an absolutely ground-breaking work which by Jevons was characterized as the ""Cradle of Political Economy"". Cantillon introduces the concept of the entrepreneur as a central economic agent, provides the first analytical model of the circular flow of income and articulates what later became known as the “Cantillon Effect” - the uneven impact of monetary expansion on prices and wealth distribution. Richard Cantillon (1680-1734), though his name is probably of Spanish descent, was an Irishman, and he spent most of his life in France. He was a man of secrecy, and little is known about his life and work. He wrote his only published book, the seminal ""Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général"" between 1730 and 1734 but never saw it published, as he was murdered in 1734 (when he was robbed and his house was set on fire, presumably by his former cook whom he had dismissed ten days earlier), and the book had to await posthumous publication. There is evidence that Cantillon wrote much more than this single work, but the ""Essai"" seems to be the only one that survived the fire in his house on the night of his death. The work was finally published for the first time in French, anonymously, in 1755, and it is not known whether Cantillon actually wrote the manuscript in French and that the mention of translation on the title-page is false (e.g. to avoid French censorship), or whether he wrote the manuscript in English and translated it into French himself"" in all cases, the work circulated in French manuscript form, before it was published, and an English manuscript has never been found. ""In any case, the ""Essai"" is a work of genious, and it was undoubtedly written by Cantillon"" (Brewer, p. 19). After having had an immense influence on the Physiocrats and the French School, directly influencing Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot , François Quesnay, Jean-Baptiste Say, Victor de Riquetti marquis de Mirabeau, Adam Smith, etc., the ""Essay…"" soon sank into obscurity only to be rediscovered by Jevons in the 1880'ies, and throughout the late 19th and the 20th century it has become increasingly evident that the present work is indeed a pioneering work, which directly and indirectly influenced almost all later economic theory. ""Richard Cantillon was a key figure in the early development of economics. He was one of the first to see economy as a single inter-connected system and to try to explain how it worked, and the first to present a coherent theory of prices and income distribution. He made major contributions to monetary theory and to the theory of balance of payments adjustment. The Physiocrats, writing only a few years after the (delayed) publication of Cantillon's one surviving work, the ""Essai sur la nature du commerce en general"", took many of their ideas very directly from it. Adam Smith probably learnt from Cantillon's ""Essai"" , as well as from the Physiocrats. There is thus a direct line of intellectual descent from Cantillon's ""Essai"" to Smith's ""Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"", and to modern economics."" (Brewer, p. 1). ""Cantillon predated the Physiocrats in two ways. First, he used the term ""entrepreneur"" and emphasized the role of this figure in economic life. Business people, Cantillon said commit themselves to definite payments in expectation of uncertain receipts"" this risk taking is remunerated by profit, which competition tends to reduce to the normal value of the entrepreneurs' services. Second, writing a generation before Quesnay constructed his ""Tableau Economique"", Cantillon stated: ""Cash is therefore necessary, not only for the Rent of the landlord... but also for the City merchandise consumed in the country... The circulation of this money takes place when the Landlords spend in detail in the City the rents which the farmers have paid them in lump sums, and when the Entrepreneurs of the Cities, Butchers, Bakers, Brewers, etc. collect little by little the same money to buy from the Farmers in lump sums Cattle, Wheat, Barley, etc."" Cantillon developed a theory of value and price. His emphasis on the role of land and labor, on supply and demand, and on the fluctuations of price around intrinsic value makes him a direct forerunner of classical economists... Cantillon anticipated classical economic thought in several other ways. For example, he stated, ""Men multiply like mice in a barn if they have unlimited Means of Subsistence."" The classical economist Thomas Malthus held a similar view. Also, Cantillon analyzed interest as a reward for the risk taken in lending, based on profits that the entrepreneurs can make by borrowing and investing... In addition, Cantillon focused on the productivity of a nation's resources..."" (Brue, pp. 59-60). See: Anthony Brewer, Richard Cantillon: Pioneer of Economic Theory, 1992 Stanley L. Brue, The Evolution of Economic Thought. Sixth Edition, 2000 Kress: 5423.Einaudi 846. Goldsmiths’ 8989 Higgs, Bibliography of Economics, 938.‎

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‎"(MELON, J. F.)‎

‎Essai politique sur le commerce.‎

‎Amsterdam, Changuion, 1735. 8vo. In contemporary full sprinkled calf with five raised bands with richly gilt spine. Gilt frame to boards and edges of boards gilt. Small paper label pasted on to upper compartment of spine. Extremities with wear, boards with scratches and missing small part of the leather. Internally very fine and clean. (14), 251 pp.‎

‎This unoffical second edition was published the year after the first edition (1734) and a year before the official second edition (published in 1736). Here Melon discusses various economic principles and policies, focusing on the role of commerce and trade in the prosperity of nations: “""His Essai' is noteworthy not only because it constitutes the first systematic presentation of mercantilist doctrines to appear in France but also because it adumbrates the transition to physiocracy"" (ESS X, 305). Melon's ""Essai politique sur le commerce"" is considered a significant work in the history of economic thought, particularly for its advocacy of free trade and its insights into the functioning of markets. It contributed to the development of liberal economic ideas that would later influence thinkers such as Adam Smith and the classical economists.‎

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‎"[AFRICA].‎

‎Acte Général de la conférence de Berlin. - [THE GENERAL ACT OF THE BERLIN CONFERENCE 1885]‎

‎Amsterdam, K.N.A.G., 1885. 8vo. In recent paper wrappers with brown title label pasted on the front wrappers. As extracted from ""Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap"". Vol. II. Very fine and clean. Pp. 213-228.‎

‎"[BRETTON WOODS].‎

‎International Monetary Fund and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. - [FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE BRETTON WOODS SYSTEM]‎

‎Washington, U. S. Treasury, 1944. 8vo. Bound with the original wrappers in later half cloth. White library numbering to top left corner of front boards and front wrapper. ""Withdrawn"" stamp to front wrapper. Soiling to top right corner of front wrapper affecting first 20 leaves. Front wrapper creased. X, 88 pp.‎

‎"[EMPEROR ZHU YUANZHANG (MING TAIZU), 1328-1398]‎

‎1 kuan note. 14th century Ming Dynasty banknote. Original cash value of a string of 1,000 copper coins, or 1 kuan [Kwan]. - [KUAN PAPER-MONEY FROM EARLY MING DYNASTY - THE EARLIEST OBTAINABLE COMMERCIAL PRINTING ON PAPER]‎

‎[China, Hung-wu era, Printed during the reign of the first Ming emperor, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang (Ming Taizu) (1368-98)] Folio (340 x 225 mm). Woodblock printed on grey mulberry paper. Uncirculated condition (UNC). Ornamentation and text faded, which happens naturally over time with mulberry paper, but legible. Lower left corner slightly rounded, which is also due to the quality of the paper and not due to use.1. Two red (vermilion) seal handstamps, one at each side, are located on the note. These stamps are typically not so clear, because they naturally fade over time. The seals of the notes are what signatures are to modern notes.The red imperial seal is applied on the reverse.2. At the top are six chinese characters ""Ta Ming t'ung Hsing Pao Cha's (Treasure Note of the Great Ming) in regular (K'ai Shu) style. Text is in black.3. The outer frame is ornated with dragon patterns surrounding the text. Ornamentation is in black.4. The upper center is printed with the face value ""1 Kuan"" (One string) in regular (K'ai Shu) style. ""One String"" was at this time equivalent to 1000 copper cash or one tael of purse silver or one-fourth tael of gold.5. The middle center is printed with diagram of ten piles containing ten copper coins, each coin representing the value of 10 cash (this equals 1000 copper cash).6. On both sides of the center are eight chines characters ""Ta Ming Pao Ch'ao, Tien Hsia T'ung Hsing"" (The Great Ming note, circulates everywhere) in real (Chuan Shu) style.7. The lower center is written in chinese and could be translated to ""This Ta Ming Pao Cha'o is printed with the approval of the Emperor through the Hu Pao and used side by side with the copper cash. Those who counterfeit Ta Ming Pai Cha'o will be beheaded while an informant will be rewarded with 250 taels of silver with confiscated property of the convicts into the bargain"".The size of the 1 Kuan note is the largest paper-money ever issued.‎

‎Uncirculated condition, and by far the best preserved specimen we have ever handled, of this Ming dynasty 1 kuan note - the earliest obtainable commercial printing on paper, and nearly the earliest obtainable printing of anything - a full lifetime before Gutenberg. The oldest paper-money that are preserved until today are those from early Ming dynasty, dated year 1375. These notes are the earliest numismatic printings. Only a small number of these paper-money are still available for the numismatic or printing collector. The significance of the first 1 kuan banknote was emphasized by the fact that it featured as one the world-changing inventions in the British Museum project, A History of the World in 100 objects, selected by the Museum's Director, Neil MacGregor (Broadcasted by BBC 4 in 2010). No copies of the 1 kuan note was known until around 1900 where a cache of notes in the base of an overthrown statue of Buddha was discovered. The second find was made in Peking in 1936, when a pile of notes was uncovered during the demolition of one of the city walls. The beginning of the 15th century saw a high rise in inflation, primarily of the over-printing of notes. Because of the inflation and the silver bullion obtained through Chinese trade with the Spanish in Manila, the use of paper money gradually diminished. The first banknotes were not issued in the Western world until 1661, when Sweden printed kreditivsedlar (credit notes) as an alternative to their massive copper coins.‎

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‎"[GOULD, NATHANIEL].‎

‎A Defence of an Essay on the Publick Debts of this Kingdom, &c. In Answer to a Pamphlet, entitled A State of the National Debt, &c. - [THE NATIONAL DEBT OF ENGLAND]‎

‎London, J. Peele, 1727. 8vo. Without wrappers. A fine and clean copy. 72 pp.‎

‎Scarce first edition of Gould's influential treatise in which he declared that the interest on government securities should be kept near ""the natural interest of money,"" as defined by Locke. Gould's essay is the very first work commenting on England's massive debt burden in the 18th century and it anticipates the major economic debate on the role of national debt and The Sinking Fund by 50 years. Gould documented that since 1716 the national debt had been greatly reduced and he argued that in time, by the application of the principle of compound interest, the sinking fund would pay off all of the national debt. To support this argument he showed that one million pounds, accumulating at four percent compound interest, would amount in 105 years to 1575 millions. ""The English public was in fact so nervous [by the massive national debt] that the Pitt government in 1786 resumed, on a larger scale and more seriously, the policy of paying an annual sum into a Sinking Fund. The plan adopted is usually attributed to the suggestion of Richard Price, [1772]. Sir Nathaniel Gould had published similar views before [in the present publication]. (Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, 327).""Gould appears, in fact, to have been the first person to have employed those arguments on behalf of the policy of simultaneously borrowing and repaying which subsequently became an accepted element in financial theory. [...] Gould had complete confidence in the permanence of and the efficacy of the sinking fund"". (Wormell, National Debt in Britain. P. 41)Kress 3695Goldsmith 6548Hanson 3737Hollander 932Houkes: p. 405(Not in Einaudi, but lists it. See Einaudi Vol. p. 400)‎

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‎"[LEGROS, CHARLES FRANCOIS] [JEAN-CHARLES-FRANÇOIS LE GROS]‎

‎Analyse et Examen du Systeme des Philosophes Économistes. - [RARE EARLY CRITIQUE OF THE PHYSIOCRATIC SCHOOL]‎

‎Geneve, Barde & Compagnie, 1787. 8vo. In a fine contemporary half calf binding with five raised bands, red leather title label with gilt lettering and gilt ornamentations to spine. Boards recently repaired An extraordinarily fine copy. VI, 294 pp.‎

‎The rare first printing of abbé Legros's fierce critique of physiocratic doctrines. The physiocratic school and the dawning liberalism dictated that the economic order should espouse as closely as possible the concatenation of causes which make up the order of Nature and that everything is interconnected in the human world as it is in nature. In his own early critique of this physiocratic political economy, the traditionalist Legros developed attacks which can equally well apply to Quesnay, Spinoza, Diderot or d'Holbach: ""if this grand order, this concatenation [cet enchaînement], this general law of movement are eternal [...] if they are necessary, then they exist by themselves, by the necessity of their nature" they therefore replace the Divinity, they take its place" if the grand order is one and the only one, then there no longer is any moral order, any metaphysical order, any supernatural order."" (From the present work: Pp 142-3).Legros (1739-1790) studied theology and functioned as a priest in St.-Aebeul. He always published under the name ""d'un Solitaire"".Einaudi 3300" INED 2773 Masui P. 406.‎

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‎"[LEGROS, CHARLES FRANCOIS] [JEAN-CHARLES-FRANÇOIS LE GROS]‎

‎Analyse et Examen du Systeme des Philosophes Économistes. - [RARE EARLY CRITIQUE OF THE PHYSIOCRATIC SCHOOL]‎

‎Geneve, Barde & Compagnie, 1787. 8vo. In a fine contemporary half calf binding with five raised bands, red leather title label with gilt lettering and gilt ornamentations to spine. Boards recently repaired An extraordinarily fine copy. VI, 294 pp.‎

‎"[MARX, KARL], KARLA MARKSA‎

‎Kapital. Kritika Politicke Ekonomije. - [FIRST SERBIAN TRANSLATION OF MARX'S ""DAS KAPITAL""]‎

‎Beograd, Izdavacka Knjizarnica Gece Kona, 1924. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Spine renewed, preserving most of the original spine. Ink stain to front wrapper. Previous ower's name to top of title-page. First leaves with a few underlignings, otherwise internally fine and clean. 198, (4) pp.‎

‎"[THE ECONOMIST - HITLER CALLING FOR AN ""EXPORT BATTLE""].‎

‎The Real Threat to Our Export. [The Economist, Weekly Commercial Times, Bankers' Gazette, and Railway Monitor: A Political Literary, and General Newspaper].‎

‎London, The Economist Office, 1939. Small folio. Bound with the original wrappers in comtemporary half cloth. Entire volume 134, January - March, 1939, of The Economist. Binding with minor wear, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. VIII, 660, 17-24.‎

‎"ANONYM -‎

‎Discours imellem En fremmet Reisende, En Officeer og en Borger ved navn den Tænkende. Handlende 1. Om de høie Priser paa Brød og Fødevarer. 2. Om det Fattiges Væsen. 3. Om Stifter. 4. Om Procuratorers Antal for Underretterne. 5. Om Gade Løgter. 6. Om ...‎

‎Kiøbenhavn, uden trykker, 1771. Indlagt i sener papomslag med exlibris og stempel fra ""Bergens offentlige Bibliothek"". Stemplet ""Utgått"" på bagsiden af titelbladet. 22 pp.‎

‎Bibl. Danica II: 983.‎

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‎"AVERCH, HARVEY (+) LELAND L. JOHNSON.‎

‎Behaviour of the Firm under Regulatory Constraint. - [THE AVERCH-JOHNSON EFFECT]‎

‎[No place], The American Economic Association, 1955. Lex8vo. In the original printed wrappers. In ""The American Economic Review"", Vol. VII, December, No. 5. Entire issue offered. Light wear to extremities, otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 1052-69. [Entire issue: (5), 996-1258 pp. + advertisement].‎

‎First printing of Averch and Johnson's seminal paper in which they introduced in what was to become known as the ""Averch-Johnson effect"". The paper was one of the most cited and influential papers in microeconmocs during the 60ies. ""The Averch-Johnson effect is produced when fair rate of return regulation encourages a firm to invest more than is consistent with the minimization of its costs. This can happen when the allowed rate of return exceeds the cost of capital, since the difference between the two represents pure profit. Detailed descriptions of actual regulatory processes may be useful in suggesting guides for action, since actual outcomes depend as much on political and bureaucratic necessity as they do on economic analysis and 'rational' benefit-cost estimates."" (The New Palgrave).""Averch and Johnson's famous paper from the early 1960s asks the simple question: If we assume that regulation acts to instantaneously adjust prices so as to maintain a constant target return on a firm's capital stock, what incentives does the firm have to choose an efficient combination of inputs? Averch and Johnson show, using fairly straightforward maths, that if the regulator sets the regulatory rate of return above the firm's true cost of capital, the regulated firm has an incentive to choose too much capital relative to labour - that is, there will be an inefficient capital-labour ratio. This observation sparked off a large empirical and theoretical literature exploring what came to be known as the 'Averch-Johnson' or 'A-J' effect.The Averch-Johnson model assumed an extreme form of what is known as 'rate of return' or 'cost of service' regulation in which prices are continuously and rapidly adjusted so as to yield the desired return on capital stock. In reality, rate of return regulation as it was historically practiced in the US always involved an element of 'regulatory lag' - that is, a period of time before prices were adjusted to reflect changes in costs. This regulatory lag gives rise to some desirable incentives, as discussed furtherbelow. Even in 1962 it was recognised that allowing higher ex post rates of return was necessary to induce desirable incentives. Averch and Johnson note: ""We have been told by representatives in both the industry and in regulatory agencies that justification exists for allowing a return in excess of cost to give firms an incentive to develop and adopt cost-saving techniques. If the firm is left only indifferent as among a wide range of activities it has no positive incentive to minimize costs for any given activity.""Averch and Johnson's paper was, for a while at least, very widely cited, often incorrectly. The A-J effect later came to be synonymous with 'gold-plating' and with general inefficiency of the regulated firm. But these ideas cannot be strictly attributed to Averch and Johnson. Averch and Johnson only highlighted a potential tendency towards an inefficient mix of capital and labour - but they made no mention of the tendency to simply spend too much on all inputs - so-called 'x-inefficiency' as discussed further below."" (biggar, The Fifty Most Important Papers in the Economics of Regulation).‎

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‎"BANG, F.L. - ""DEN DANSKE MØNTREVOLUTION""‎

‎Nyere Betænkninger grundede paa Hr. Etatsraad Zöegas Forsøg ec. fra Forfatteren af Betænkninger i Anledning af Rygtet om den nye Myntindretning i Holsteen.‎

‎Kiøbenhavn, Gyldendals Forlag, 1787. Uden omslag. 48 pp. Rødt snit. Velbevaret.‎

‎Originaltrykket. Det var F.L. Bang, som med sit anonyme skrift ""Betænkninger i Anledning af det vigtige Rygte om en ny Møntindretning i Holsten"" 1786, åbnede ""Pjecekrigen"" om den nye møntindretning i Holsten og oprettelsen af banken i Altona, og som her i disse nye betragtninger fornyer sin kritik efter Zoëgas grundlæggende kritik. - ""Pjecekrigen"" kan med en vis ret betegnes som grundlæggende for dansk økonomisk teori.Bibl. Danica II:863.‎

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‎"BERGSØE, ADOLPH FREDERIK.‎

‎Den danske Stats Statistik fremstillet. 4 Bd.‎

‎København., Forfatterens Forlag, 1844-53. 4 samt. hldrbd. med rygforgyldning. Lettere brugsspor. Stempel på titelblade. XII,563,705,690,976 pp. Med 2 kort, det ene håndkoloreret (Forchammers kort fra ""Danmark geognostisk beskrevet""). Indvendig frisk, få brunpletter.‎

‎Originaludgaven af første samlede fremstilling af Danmark i statistisk henseende. 1. Bind.: ""Om den danske Stats naturlige Beskaffenhed og befolkning"" - 2. ""Om den danske Stats Landboforhold, Agerdyrkning, Industri og Handel."" - 3. Om den danske Stats immaterielle Cultur, Statsforfatning, beskatningsvæsen, og øvrige finantsielle Forhold"" - 4. Om forskjellige Statsforvaltningsforhold, Monarkiets udvortes Forhold, de fjernere Statsdele m.m.Bind 4 indeholder længere afsnit om Island (pp. 387-475, om Færøerne (pp. 475-504), om Grønland (pp. 505-556), om De dansk Vestindiske Øer (pp. 557-711).‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 19608