‎Sciences economiques‎

‎"SMITH, ADAM.‎

‎En Undersökning av Folkens Välstånd dess Natur och Orsaker. Översättning av D:r Emil Sommarin. 2 volumes. - [FIRST SWEDISH EDITION OF ""THE WEALTH OF NATIONS""]‎

‎Lund, C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, 1909 & 1911. 8vo. Bound with the original wrappers of volume 1 in one contemporary half blue cloth binding with red leather titel label with gilt lettering to spine. A fine and clean copy. XVI,191, (4), 179 pp.‎

‎"SMITH, ADAM.‎

‎Milletlerin Zenginligi. [i.e. ""Wealth of Nations""] 4 vols. - [FIRST TURKISH TRANSLATION OF 'WEALTH OF NATIONS']‎

‎Istanbul, Milli Egitim Basimevi, 1948 [Vol. 1 & 2] & 1955 [Vol. 3 & 4]. 8vo. 4 volumes in the original printed wrapper. Spines (especially on vol. 1 and 4) with wear and a bit of miscolouring, otherwise a fine and clean set. IV, 393, (8)" (6), 340 386 " 415, (2) pp.‎

‎"SMITH, ADAM.‎

‎Teoriia nravstvennykh chuvstv [...] S pis'mami M. Kondorse k Kabanisu o simpatii. [i.e. Russian ""Theory of Moral Sentiments""]. - [FIRST RUSSIAN TRANSLATION OF ""THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS""]‎

‎St Petersburg, I. I. Glazunov, 1868. 8vo. In contemporary half calf with with embossed boards. Three raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Spine with wear. Small label pasted on to top left corner of pasted down front free end-paper. Removed stamp to half-title and title-page with stamp and a a few number written to top of title-page. A few light occassional underlining in pencil, otherwise internally fine and clean. (1)-515, (1), IV pp.‎

‎"SMITH, ADAM.‎

‎Undersøgelse om National-Velstands Natur og Aarsag. Af det Engelske oversat og med nogle Anmærkninger oplyst af Dræbye. 2 Deele. [Anden Deel:] Hertil er føiet Gourvenør Pownals Brev til Forfatteren i hvilket nogle af de i dette Værk fremsatte Læresætn... - [FIRST DANISH EDITION OF ""THE WEALTH OF NATIONS""]‎

‎Kiøbenhavn [Copenhagen], 1779-80. 8vo. Two nice contemporary half calf bindings with four raised bands and gilt leather title label to spines. Volume one lacking one cm of upper part of spine. Volume two with a small tear to lower part of spine. Both volumes with light brown spotting throughout, however, mainly affecting first and last five leaves of both volumes. A fine set. (12), 575" " (8), 775, (3, - errata) pp.‎

‎"SOETBEER, ADOLF.‎

‎Edelmetall-Produktion und Wertverhältniss zwischen Gold und Silber seit der Entdeckung Amerika's bis zur gegenwart. Mit drei Tafeln graphischer Darstellungen.‎

‎Gotha, Julius Perthes, 1879. 4to. No wrappers. ((4),142 pp. and 3 large folded plates.‎

‎(Petermann's ""Geographischen Mittheilungen"", Ergänzungsheft No 57).‎

Référence libraire : 46764

‎"STRACCHA, BENUENUTI. [BENVENUTO STRACCA].‎

‎De mercatura, seu Mercatore tractatus. - [INTRODUCING MARITIME AND COMMERCIAL LAW]‎

‎Venetiis [Venice], Cum Preivilegio [Paolo Manuzio], 1553. 8vo. In a contemporary unrestored vellum binding with three raised bands. Later paper labels pasted on to upper and lower part of spine. ""Stracc. / de /Mercat."" written in contemporary hand to spine. Upper and lower part of front hinge slightly cracked. ""sum Marii D'Abbatis"" written in contemporary hand to pasted down front free end-paper. Early oval stamp on verso of title-page with monogram. Aldine woodcut device to title-page (Ahmanson-Murphy device no: B2). Occasional marginal annotations and very light occasional marginal water-staining. Tiny wormhole in blank outer margin not affecting text. A very nice, clean, and completely unrestored copy. (40), 287, (1) ff. (with the four blanks 5+6-8 and 2N8). As usual with the typopgraphical errors: ""63 '64', 85 '87', 87 '85', 102 '106', 165 '167', 174 '176', 176 '178'"". These errors are to be found in all published copies.‎

‎Exceedingly rare first edition of Stracca's highly important work on merchant-, economic insurance-, and insurance-law. With the present work, Stracca provided the first systematic exposition of commercial law, in particular maritime law, which he was the first to view as distinct from civil law. He was furthermore the first to consider these aspects of the law from a practical point of view, thereby breaking with the late Medieval scholastic law-tradition. Maritime law, often referred to as admiralty law, was developed in Venice in the middle of the 13th century, prompted by the extensive Mediterranean sea trade in which the republic engaged. Legal agreements concluded between consortiums were ad hoc and even though by the time of Straccha, the practice was both well-established and quite refined when one compares to the rest of Europe, no full and systematic exposition of the subject had been published, until Straccha wrote his influential treatise. The work was extremely influential and extremely popular with eight reprints in the 17th century (after the present first edition from 1553: 1555, 1556, 1558, 1575, 1576, 1595, 1599). Numerous reprints in the course of the 17th century bear witness to its longstanding influence. ""In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, continental jurists began to regard the affairs of merchants as matter of sufficient interest to warrant special attention and separate treatment in legal writing. Beginning with Benvenuto Straccha's De Mercatura, seu Mercatore Tractatus published in Venice in 1553, a substantial literature on commercial law developed."" (Rogers, The Early History of the Law of Bills and Notes, p. 151)Stracca's work deals with the merchant class and commerce in general"" mercantile contracts, maritime law, and how to deal with bankruptcy. ""His work contains information of interest to economists. He shows the usefulness of trade and navigation"" discusses the restrictions on certain branches of trade, and expresses comparatively moderate opinions on the theory of usury."" (Palgrave).The aspect of insurance was particularly important to Venetian traders, for whom the loss of a single ship could mean bankruptcy. Initially, smaller companies went into coorporation with other smaller companies and created consortiums in order to spread out the risk. Eventually, the practice of insuring oneself through such consortiums became commercialized which lead to the emergence of companies that profited from this line of business: ""A separate sector in which there were many opportunities for making profit from money was insurance. In this sector the damnum emergens [ensuing expense] had a purely hypothetical basis, not a real one. Certainly the element of risk played a plausible role in the case of transport by sea: a subject that was particularly dear to the Ancona jurist Benvenuto Stracca, author of one of the first treatises on trade law and editor of a large collection of writings on mercantile doctrine and jurisprudence."" (Palgrave).Not in BM STC Renouard 156:6. ""Ce volume imprimé en petites lettres rondes est rare."" Einaudi 5491. Kress 69. Goldsmiths 52. Adams S.1911.Ahmanson-Murphy 444Houkes p. 237‎

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‎"STIGLITZ, J. E. (+) A. K. DIXIT.‎

‎Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity - [""TRANSFORMED INTERNATIONAL TRADE THEORY"" - THE DIXIT-STIGLITZ MODEL]‎

‎Nashville, American Economic Association, 1977. Lex8vo. In the original printed wrappers. In ""The American Economic Review, June 1977"". Entire issue offered. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 297-308. [Entire volume: Pp. (4), 261-535, (25)].‎

‎"TETENS, J.N. (JOHANN NICOLAI).‎

‎Efterretning om Tilstanden af den almindelige Enke=Kasse i Kjøbenhavn ved Slutningen af Aaret 1797, samt almindelige Anmærkninger over Forsikrings=Anstalter i Livs= og Døds= Tilfælde i Almindelighed. Oversat af N. Søndergaard.‎

‎Kiøbenhavn, C.G. Prost/ B.K. Horrebow, 1802. Lille 8vo. Smukt samtidigt helldrbd. med rig rygforgyldning, forgyldte borter på permer (gevebindsudstyr). 125,(1) pp. samt 3 store foldetabeller. ren og frisk, trykt på skrivepapir.‎

‎Scarce first edition of Teten's work on the ""Widow Pension Fund"" (Wittwen-Casse), a pension- and insurance institution for which he was director. His work ""Einleitung zur Berechnung der Leibrenten und Anwartschaften, published in Leipzig in 1785 a.1786 was a landmark of actuarial science. It is recognized by actuaries for featuring the first risk measure ever (the Risico der Casse). In the offered book he applies his skills in actuarial mathematics.After his years as professor in Philosophy at the Kiel University,Tetens begun another career as a high ranking Danish civil servant: member of the Finanzcollegium in Copenhagen, then (1791) counselor of state, and (1803) co-director of the state bank and director of the widow pension funds. By this time, he was interested in pure mathematics as well as in applications. Tetens was professor of Philosophy at the University of Kiel from 1776-89. He was one of the first to discuss David Hume at lenght on the continent (he was called the German Hume). His ""Philosophische Versuche über die menschliche Natur und ihre Entwicklung"", 1777 exerted a tremendous influence on Kant while he was writing the Critique of Pure Reason, and the many similarities between their doctrines are evident. Tetens's doctrines may be compared to Kant's even in their speculative power and importance.Bibl. Danica II:773. The book was first published in Danish (the offered item) and a year later , 1803 in German with the title ""Nachricht von dem Zustande der allgemeinen Wittwen-Casse zu Copenhagen am Schluss des Jahres 1797, mit einigen Bemerkungen über Versicherungs-Anstalten auf Lebens- und Sterbens-Fälle, und die Art sie zu prüffen.""‎

Référence libraire : 47484

‎"TOBIN, JAMES.‎

‎Estimation of Relationships for Limited Dependent Variables. - [FIRST PUBLICATION OF THE TOBIT MODEL]‎

‎(Chicago, The Econometric Society. 1958). Large8vo. Bound without wrappers in light green full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Econometrica, Journal of the Econometric Society, Volume 26, 1958"". Library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper and library stamp to front free end-paper. Frontispiece of Wassily Leontief (President of the Econometric Society, 1954). Minor miscolouring to title page, otherwise a fine and clean copy. [Tobin:] Pp. 24-36. [Entire issue: VIII, 641 pp. + 1 page of advertising + frontispiece).‎

‎First publication of economist James Tobin exceedingly influential Tobit model, ""a seminal contribution to the estimation and testing of multiple"". (Buiter, James Tobin - An appreciation of his contribution to economics, P. 18). The Tobit model is today a standard economic technique within econometrics. The Tobit model regression models with limited dependent variables statistical model to describe the relationship between a non-negative dependent variable.James Tobin (1918-2002) was a highly influential economist within Keynesian Economics in the 20th century. His academic work included pioneering contributions to the study of investment, fiscal and monetary policy and financial markets. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1981.Outside of academia, Tobin was widely known for his suggestion of a tax on foreign exchange transactions, now known as the ""Tobin tax"". This was designed to reduce speculation in the international currency markets, which he saw as dangerous and unproductive. He suggested that the proceeds of the tax could be used to fund projects for the benefit of Third World countries, or to support the United Nations.The issue contain the following papers of interest:1. Deberu, Gerad. Stochastic Choice and Cardinal Utility, Pp. 440-44.1. Luce, R. Duncan. A Probabilistic Theory of Utility, P. 196-224.‎

Référence libraire : 44995

‎"TOBIN, JAMES.‎

‎Estimation of Relationships for Limited Dependent Variables. - [FIRST PUBLICATION OF THE TOBIT MODEL]‎

‎(Chicago, The Econometric Society. 1958). Large8vo. Bound without wrappers in light green full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In ""Econometrica, Journal of the Econometric Society, Volume 26, 1958"". Library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper and library stamp to front free end-paper. Frontispiece of Wassily Leontief (President of the Econometric Society, 1954). Minor miscolouring to title page, otherwise a fine and clean copy. [Tobin:] Pp. 24-36. [Entire issue: VIII, 641 pp. + 1 page of advertising + frontispiece).‎

‎"TURNER, THOMAS.‎

‎An Epitome of Book-Keeping by Double Entry: Delineated on a Scale Suited to the Faculties and Comprehension of Senior School Boys and Youth, Designed for the Mercantile Line, Comprising Systematic and Unerring Rules for the Forming Monthly Statements ... - [ONE OF THE EARLIEST WORK ON BOOKKEEPING PRINTED IN AMERICA]‎

‎Portland, Jenks & Shirley, 1804. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with gilt lettering to spine. Extremities with wear and hindges a bit weak. Previous owners names to front free end-paper. Title-page missing missing lower outer corner, not affecting text. Internally with light occassional brownspotting. (2 blank leaves), 148, (2), (3 blank leaves) pp.‎

‎Rare first edition of Turner's work on double-entry bookkeeping constituting one of the earliest work on bookkeeping printed in America (The earliest being from 1789)""It is singular that this little work should have been suffered to sink into oblivion. It contains much new and useful information"" it is written with clearness and precision, and better adapted to the purposs of instruction than any similar work which have appeared in the United States since 1800. The modern practice of double entry is clearly exemplified by Turner, and a very trifling revision would render [the present work] one of best elementary treatises on merchants accounts extant"" (Foster, The Origin and Progress of Book-keeping).‎

Référence libraire : 58459

‎"TURNER, THOMAS.‎

‎An Epitome of Book-Keeping by Double Entry: Delineated on a Scale Suited to the Faculties and Comprehension of Senior School Boys and Youth, Designed for the Mercantile Line, Comprising Systematic and Unerring Rules for the Forming Monthly Statements ... - [ONE OF THE EARLIEST WORK ON BOOKKEEPING PRINTED IN AMERICA]‎

‎Portland, Jenks & Shirley, 1804. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with gilt lettering to spine. Extremities with wear and hindges a bit weak. Previous owners names to front free end-paper. Title-page missing missing lower outer corner, not affecting text. Internally with light occassional brownspotting. (2 blank leaves), 148, (2), (3 blank leaves) pp.‎

‎"V.V. [VASILY VORONTSOV].‎

‎Sud'by kapitalizma v Rossii. [i.e.: The fate of capitalism in Russia]. - [THE EPITOME OF NARODNIK ECONOMICS AND THE FIRST SERIOUS ATTEMPT AT ANALYZING RUSSIAN CAPITALISM]‎

‎S.-Peterburg, Typografiya M.M. Ctasiulevitsa, 1882. 8vo. Bound in an elegant recent red half calf binding, in pastiche, with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Heavily underlined thoughout in blue and red. Title-page repaired at inner hinge, far from affecting text. No stamps. (4), 312 pp.‎

‎The exceedingly scarce first edition of this landmark work of Russian economics, being Vorontsov's seminal pre-revolutionary book ""The Fate of Capitalism in Russia"", which constitutes, not only the first serious attempt at analyzing Russian capitalism, but also one of the earliest (and the first Russian) theoretical statements of the assumption of economic development along non-capitalist lines. Vorontsov, together with Danielson - who was greatly inspired by the present work - is considered the major exponent of Narodnik (and pre-revolutionary) economics, of which the present work is essentially the epitome. ""In the 1880's, after the revolutionaries had clearly abandoned their indifferences to political forms, legal Populism became a distinctly separate movement with its own ideology. The common denominator linking the often very different members of this movement was the postulate of noncapitalist industrialization to be initiated and directed by the state, which would safeguard the interests of the small producers. The leading and most characteristic representative of this trend was V. P. Vorontsov (1847 - 1918). His book [the present] was the first ambitious attempt to analyze the specific features of Russian capitalism"" at the same time, it was an original statement of the theoretical assumptions of economic development along noncapitalist lines."" (Walicki, A History of Russian Thought)Vorontsov argues that that Russia's lack of an adequate internal market and the continued vitality of the peasant commune in Russia precluded any possibility that capitalism could ever supplant the agrarian economy that existed there"" the process of industrialization had been initiated in Russia but the backwardness compared to the rest of Europe meant that the industrialized mode of production would be kept in Europe, meaning Russia would have to import instead of export goods and thereby be kept on a comparatively low industrialization level due to the lack of internal market. Vorontsov, however, saw this as a not necessarily negative development. He wrote: ""The countries which are latecomers to the avenue of history have a great privilege in comparison with their foregoers, a privilege consisting in the fact that the accumulated historical experience of other countries enables them to work out a relatively true image of their next step and to strive for what others have already achieved not instinctively but consciously, not groping in the dark but knowing what should be avoided on the way."" [From the present work].Vorontsov was one of the first Russian economists to study the works of Karl Marx, the historical materialism of whom he was strongly influenced by. Vorontsov, inspired by Marx, maintained that crises are caused by production of surplus value, which becomes the real purpose of the economy under capitalist relations. The ""problem of the home market"" and the excess of production over consumption are manifestations of the fact that the capitalist class is not in a position to consume the entire surplus value produced. Vorontsov had therefore worked out a Marxist version of the underconsumption approach, which converged with the one first introduced by Malthus: Crises emanate from ""over-saving,"" or, in Marxist terms, from the inability of the capitalists to consume surplus value.""The views of the other Marxist theoreticians of the Narodnik current, first and foremost Nikolai Danielson, who in 1891 presented his theses in comprehensive form in his ""Outlines of our Social Economy after the Reform"" converged with the basic conclusions of Vorontsov's analysis: inability of the economy to absorb the product generated owing to capitalism's inherent tendency to increase production beyond society's ability to consume. Within this framework, Danielson is nevertheless to be distinguished from Vorontsov as regards the factors that cause underconsumption: contraction in the purchasing power of the popular masses (and not the inability of capitalists to consume the surplus value)."" (MILIOS, Tugan-Baranowsky and Effective Demand)The present work had a profound influence upon the Narodnik movement and is considered the movements economic background. It is commonly rendered as ""populism"" or ""peopleism"", an ideology which took ""peasant collectivism as a vehicle for non-capitalist development in Russia. The Narodnik movement developed along two paths: The intellectual, media based approach (The most influential and to which Vorontsov belonged) and the revolutionary agitation against the Tsardom. Though their movement achieved little in its own time, the Narodniks were in many ways the intellectual and political forebearers of the socialist revolutionaries, who went on to greatly influence Russian history in the 20th century.‎

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‎"VAUBAN, SEBASTIEN LE PRESTRE.‎

‎Projet d'une dixme royale. Qui supprimant la taille, Les Aydes, les Doüanes d'une Province à l'autre (...). - [""UNSURPASSED, BEFORE OR AFTER""]‎

‎(No place, nor printer), 1707. 8vo. In contemporary full calf with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Edges of boards gilt. Title-label is either missing or have never been added. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Stains and scratches to boards. Corners bumped. Internally nice and clean. VIII, 268 pp. + 3 folded tables.‎

‎One of the at least seven different issues of the 12mo edition, published same year as the first edition (in 4to), in which Vauban proposed a comprehensive tax reform plan for France. The central idea was to replace the existing tax system, which heavily burdened the lower classes while exempting the nobility and clergy, with a single tax on income and property that would be fairly distributed among all citizens, regardless of social status. Schumpeter called the work 'unsurpassed, before or after, in the neatness and cogency of the argument. Purposeful marshalling of all the available data was the essence of his analysis. Nobody ever understood better the true relation between facts and argument. It is this that makes him an economic classic in the eulogistic sense of the work, and a forerunner of modern tendencies' (Schumpeter, History of Economic analysis, p. 204). 'an erudite economic work much in advance of its time, and distinguished both by accuracy of method and breadth of view' (Palgrave), 'creditable alike to the heart and the head of its illustrious author' (McCulloch). 'Though the book was published anonymously, and only a few copies issued (for circulation among friends), Vauban had to submit to the mortification of seeing it 'pilloried' by the parliament, while he himself incurred the displeasure of the king (Louis XIV).' (Palgrave).‎

Référence libraire : 60967

‎"VEBLEN, THORSTEIN.‎

‎On the Nature of Capital (+) On the Nature of Capital: Investment, Intangible Assets, and the Pecuniary Magnate.‎

‎(Boston, Stanford University Press), 1908. 8vo. Two offprints in the original printed wrappers. Offprints from ""Quarterly Journal of Economics"", Vol. XXII, August & Vol. XXIII, November 1908. Vol. XXII: Backwrapper detached, a few small nicks to extremities. Vol. XXIII: Front wrapper detached. Fine and clean. Pp. 517-42" " Pp. 103-136.‎

‎"WHATELY, THOMAS.‎

‎Considerations on the Trade and Finances of this Kingdom and on the Measures of Administration with Respect to those great National Objects since the Conclusion of the Peace. - [""IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE"" WORK ON BRITISH TRADE AND FINANCE]‎

‎London, J. Wilkie, 1766. 4to. In the original printed wrappers. Lacking backstrip and with a small stain to back wrapper, otherwise a very fine and clean copy. 119 pp.‎

‎"WIESER, FRIEDRICH VON.‎

‎Der Natürliche Werth. - [THE FIRST FULLY DEVELOPED THEORY OF VALUE - COINING ""IMPUTATION""]‎

‎Wien, Alfred Hölder, 1889. 8vo. Uncut in the original printed yellow wrappers. Light soiling and a few minor nicks to extremities. A very fine and clean copy. XVI, 239 pp.‎

‎First edition, rarely seen in the original wrappers, of this important work in which Wieser attempts to apply marginal utility analysis to the determination of cost, thus for the first time fully developing a theory of value. The work ""ranks high as an original achievement"" and is one of the very earliest to realize the information value of prizes. It is furthermore here that the term ""imputation"" is coined.""It was only with Friedrich von Wieser's book [the present] that an attempt was made to fill the lacuna left by Menger and Böhm-Bawerk. Wieser makes it clear that without a solution to the problem of 'imputation' the new theory would remain incomplete and would be subjected to the widespread criticism that it cannot deal with production. The problem is posed as follows"" 'The statement that the productive goods receive their value from the value of their produce suffices only to evaluate [schätzen] the collaborating factors of production as a whole, but not separately. In order to be able to do also this, a rule is needed which allows one to apportion the total produce in detail.'(Wieser, 1889)."" (Steedman, Socialism & Marginalism in Economics 1870 - 1930). ""[H]e continued to work on the same problems and also on what he regarded merely as a first step toward a theory of value that was to be fully developed in [the present work]. He employed the expository device of studying value in a centrally directed economy and suggested possible applications of utility theory to public finance. The book gained him almost immediate acclaim, and it was soon translated into English"" (Frederich von Hayek in IESS).""[In the present work he] worked out the Austrian theories of cost and distribution (he coined the phrase 'Zurechnung', imputation), which Menger had not more than sketched, and this work must in spite of the latter fact and also in spite of glaring faults of technique, rank high as an original achievement. (Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis)""In this work he applied the marginal utility theory not only horizontally, i.e. to trading and exchange, but also vertically, i.e. to production processes. He defined the value of higher goods produced alongside them, thus developing his imputation theory. Wieser, who possessed a certain ""obsession with compulsive computability"" is recognized as one of the first economist to realize the information value of prices."" (Schulak, the Austrian School of Economics). Masui p. 909Menger col. 395.‎

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‎"WICKSTEED, PHILIP H.‎

‎The Alphabet of Economic Science. Part one (all that appeared). Elements of the Theory of Value or Worth. - [ECONOMICS BASED ON MATHEMATICAL METHOD]‎

‎London & Naw York, Macmillan and Co, 1888. Small 8vo. Orig. olive full cloth. Spine worn, otherwise fine. Hinges a bit weak. XIII, (3), 142, (2, -advertisements) pp. + 10 folded plates.‎

‎The rare first edition of this important work on mathematical economics, one of Wicksteed's main works, in which he sets out to solve ""some of the most crucial problems of Political Economy on which the foremost Economists have disputed unavailingly for generations for lack of applying the mathematical method. A glance at the ""Index of Illustrations"" will show that my object is to bring Economics down from the clouds and make the study throw light on our daily doings and experiences, as well as on the great commercial and industrial machinery of the world."" (Preface, p. X).Philip Henry Wicksteed (1844-1927) was en English theologian, classicist and medievalist now primarily famous for his contributions to economics. He studied classics at University College in London and Manchester New College and later on became interested in Economics, primarily in an attempt to resolve social problems with the aid of economic theories. He was one of the fist disciples of Jevons and continued his ideas of marginal utility theory. Though not highly influential in his own time, Wicksteed came to influence many great economists of the later generation, e.g. Ludwig von Mises and the ""Austrians"" of that generation. ""I wish that space permitted me to do justice to the personality of Philip Henry Wicksteed (1844-1927) as it radiated upon me, in 1906, during and hour's chat on the lawn in front of his house at Wantage - his repose that owed nothing to callousness, his benevolence that was not weakness, his simplicity that went so well with his refinement, his unassuming modesty that did not lack dignity. As it is, I can merely record that this theologian, who was a lecturer on Dante, stood somewhat outside of the economic profession - one of the reasons why his work, particularly excellent on the pedagogical side, did not leave a more discernible mark."" (Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, p. 831). His books did sell very poorly at the time of their appearance, which is why several of the early ones on economics are now so rare.He did, however, publish significant economic works, which, though to a large extent based on Jevons' theories, came to stand out as valuable and interesting in themselves. ""The general complexion of his system is Jevonian -he was in fact the only Jevonian theorist of note- but he shook off so many old things that still stuck to Jevons' exposition and added so many corrections and developments -partly under Austrian influence- that he may be said to have worked out something that, though of course a revision of the marginal utility system, was his own."" (Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, p. 832).It was due to his concern for ethics and the ideologies behind the modern commercial society that this excellent theologian turned to economics and tried to make comprehendible the inequalities of wealth and income. He became a lecturer on economics at the University of London in a program intended to teach adults who had not been able to go to university.In this fairly small but important work, Wicksteed aims ""at giving what theologians might call a ""saving"" knowledge of the fundamental proposition of the Theory of Value"" for this, but no more than this, is necessary as the first step towards mastering the ""alphabet of Economic Science"". (Chapter I, p. (1)).‎

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‎"WICKSTEED, PHILIP H.‎

‎The Alphabet of Economic Science. Part one (all that appeared). Elements of the Theory of Value or Worth. - [ECONOMICS BASED ON MATHEMATICAL METHOD]‎

‎London & Naw York, Macmillan and Co, 1888. Small 8vo. Orig. olive full cloth. Spine worn, otherwise fine. Hinges a bit weak. XIII, (3), 142, (2, -advertisements) pp. + 10 folded plates.‎

‎"WILLIAMSON, OLIVER.‎

‎Franchise Bidding for Natural Monopoly. - [NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS 2009 - INITIATING ""TRANSACTIONS-COST ECONOMICS""]‎

‎Worcester MA, The Heffernan Press, 1976. Royal8vo. In the original blue printed wrappers. In ""The Bell Journal of Economics"": Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 1976. Entire volume offered. Very light wear to extremities otherwise a very fine and crisp copy (not ex-library). Pp. 73-104. [Entire volume: 353 pp.].‎

‎( Various )‎

‎Cronache Padovane di Vita Economica‎

‎188pp + 9 coloured plates VG/none rilegatura tutta tela editoriale con lievi tracce di polvere e leggermente brunita al dorso, con scritte dorate e tasselli al dorso, tasselli al dorso ed scritte ed effige in rosso ed oro sul piatto anteriore, nel complesso in condizioni piu' che buone. Con numerose illustrazioni in b/n e nove tavole a colori f.t. applicate.‎

‎(Amsinck, Wilhelm)‎

‎Leben, Geist und Character meines verewigten Bruders, Johann Arnold Amsinck, B. R. Lt., Professors der practischen Philosophie am hiesigen Gymnasium.‎

‎Hamburg, 1783. Gestoch. Frontisp. Gestoch. Titel-, Kopf- u. Schlussvign. (v. Geyser). 2 Bl., 100 S. Pp. d. Zt. m. schw. RSch. u. RVergold.‎

‎ANGEBUNDEN: (Derselbe): Materialien zur richtigen Beurtheilung der wesentlichsten Rechtsverhältnisse zwischen Hamburg und Frankreich. Hamburgs gerechte Erwartungen überhaupt, und Frankreichs unstreitige Verpflichtung zum Ersatz der Bank insbesondere, betreffend. Von einem Freunde der Wahrheit und des Rechts. Geschrieben im Januar 1815. Hbg., Nemnich, (1815). Tit., 103 S. 2 Tle. - ad 1) nicht bei Holzm.-Boh., nicht bei Rapp. Schröder 73,3: "Nur für Freunde gedruckt". - ad 2) Holzm. Boh. 3956. Schröder 73, 6. Nicht bei Rapp. - W. Amsinck (1752 - 1831) Richter am Niedergericht, später Bürgermeister Hamburgs. - J. A. Amsinck (1750 - 1782), Studium der Rechte, Prof. d. prakt. Philosophie. - Wenig beriebn. Gutes Exemplar.‎

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‎(ARNOUX.)‎

‎Explications du Maire de Toulouse, au sujet des incidens relatifs à l'introduction de l'éclairage au gaz dans la ville. (Drop-head title.) (At end:) Toulouse, Imprimerie d'Auguste Henault, 1838. - (Followed by:) (LONGHENA, J.) Compagnie lyonnaise. Notes sur l'opposition relative à l'établissement de son usine à gaz. (At end:)‎

‎(Toulouse) Imprimerie de Lavergne, 1839. 2 parts. 45, (1 blank) & (2), 29, (1 blank) pp. 4to. Disbound. First work: Arnoux, Maire de Toulouse, justifies in this text the actions taken by him and his municipal council with regard to the public lightning of the city, negocations with various compagnies interested in the assignment (Compagnie Europeenne, Compagnie de Seynes, Compagnie Lyonnaise) and reveals the various contracts and decisions. The mayor was accused of improper behaviour and having concealed his interests in the compagnie Europeenne, dissatisfied with the results of the deliberations. Second work: The drop-head title on page 1 reads: Notes sur les Faits et Moyens libellés dans l'opposition de quelques habitants du quartier Lafayette, contre l'établissement de l'atelier pour la fabrication du gaz de la Compagnie Lyonnaise. At the end is a "Résumé" by the representative of the Compagnie Lyonnaise, J. Longhena, Avril 1839.The work contains the texts of the opponents of the establishment of the factory, with the remarks and refutations by Longhena, thus allowing the reader to follow the fears and grievances of the opponents and the arguments and refutations of the company.‎

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‎(AUGER.)‎

‎Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du droit public de la France en matière d'impôts, ou Recueil de ce qui s'est passé de plus intéressant à la Cour des Aides, depuis 1756 jusqu'au mois de Juin 1775; Avec une Table générale des Matières.‎

‎A Bruxelles, 1779. xiv, 776, (2, errata, blank), 10 pp. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red label with gilt lettering, marbled edges, some minor blemishes to binding. Kress B.175; Goldsmiths 11860; Einaudi 207; INED 137; Quérard, La France Littéraire, i, p. 126; Dupin/Camus 954bis, pointing to the fact that this work is only complete with the 10 pages supplement, as is the case here; Le Bucher bibliographique, 114. Very rare only edition and suppressed by the Cour des Aides in February 1779 because it was considered contrary to the authority of the Court, it lacked respect for its decisions and it violated the confidentiality of the decisions. This precious and scarce volume, which was not available on the market and which was suppressed in 1779, contains the work of Malesherbes during his tenure in office at the Cour des Aides, that is, the work of 25 years: the reports of the sessions of the Cour des Aides and the remonstrances. It was published with tacit permission and did not contain, in the first instance, those pleas in which Malerherbes addressed the king in quite frank language. These withheld texts were shortly thereafter nevertheless printed and inserted and they form the indispensible 10 page supplement at the end of the volume.The Court des Aides was suppressed, together with the Parliaments, by Maupeou in his attempt at reform; it played, under Malesherbes, a significient role of opposition to what the Court considered to be "royal arbitrariness" and basically shared the "constitutionalist" ideology common to most members of the Grande Robe. The Court was suppressed in 1771 and re-instated in 1774: Malesherbes was recalled to Paris with the reconstituted Cour des Aides on the accession of Louis XVI; it was at this point that he spearheaded the famous 1775 Remontrances of the cour des aides, which detailed the problems facing the regime and envisioned a total overhaul of fiscal policy. Louis XVI was so impressed with the plan -and fearful for the future of his government- that Malesherbes was appointed minister of the maison du roi in 1775. He held office as a royal minister only nine months; the Court proved intransigent in its opposition to his proposals for fiscal restraint and other reforms, including curtailing the arbitrary issuance of lettres de cachet, and he soon found himself bereft of political support. He resigned together with Turgot in 1776.- Pages 71-72 bound between pages 66-67, and with the pages 71-72 bis present, 457-8 omitted in numbering, numbers 465-66 used twice, but text complete.‎

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‎(BARBEU-DUBOURG, J.)‎

‎Petit Code de la Raison Humaine, ou Exposition succinte de ce que dicte à tous les hommes, Pour éclairer leur conduite & assurer leur bonheur. Par M.B.D.‎

‎(Paris), 1789. (iii)-xxii (misnumbered xxiv), 112 (misnumbered 114) pp. 12mo. Modern half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering. Echeverria & Wilkie 789/7; INED 218; no edition in Kress; no edition in Goldsmiths; no edition in Einaudi; not in Sabin. Final edition of this little collection of 102 maxims and reflections forming a perfect abridged statement of the philosophy of the Enlightenment.'Both signatures a and b have had the first leaf of each cancelled; no located copy still has them present' (Echeverria & Wilkie). After the half-title and title the numbering of the prelims is: vii-ix, verso of ix an unnumbered blank page, ix again, verso numbered xii, xv-xxiv. This is a copy with a5r numbered ix (see Echeverria & Wilkie). The dedication is 'A Monsieur B.F. (i.e. Benjamin Franklin). The first edition was published in 1774 and a second one was printed in 1782 in Paris on the press of Benjamin Franklin. Livingston (19) writes: 'It was again printed in 1789, a close copy, typographically, of Franklin's Passy press edition, and this is the only edition recorded in the Catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale (1914).' According to Quérard (I, 175), this edition 'est plus complète que les autres', and he adds 'ce petit traité renferme beaucoup d'idées sur le commerce maritime.' 'Éloge de la famille et du mariage, du travail, de la tolérance. Défense du droit de propriété et de l'impôt foncier. Idées agrariennes sur la population et l'agriculture' (INED). On page 87 these lines on the USA: 'La Pensylvanie est le premier pays policé de l'univers où la tolérance réciproque de tous les cultes religieux ait été garantie par une loi authentique.'The pages 89-90 are omitted in the numbering, page (91)-end contains notes to the various maxims. Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg (1709-1779) was doctor, professor, journalist and businessman: he was Diderot's doctor untill Barbeu died, and he created various commercial companies with the aim to help the American revolutionaries. - Small tear in outer blank margin of the title-page and a few unobtrusive spots, verso title-page and recto last page with strengthened inner margin.‎

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