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1947324H1607New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1947. Second Edition. Hardcover. Boldly signed and dated without inscription by Schumpeter upon front free endpaper. A revision of the 1942 first edition with new material appraising the social changes wrought by WWII. p. xiv 411. Index. Bookplate of Leo Kramer inside front board. In these emergent days of AI robotics and blockchain technology Schumpeter's concept of creative destruction introduced in this work has never rung more true. Google Scholar states that a 2016 study by Professor Elliott Green determined this book to be the third most frequently cited work in the social sciences published before 1950. Blaug p.216 Pressman p.161 Fundaburk 9545 Swedberg chapter 7 Hutchinson 735 Hazlitt p.146 Augello S.011.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Capitalism Socialism and Democracy Schumpeter Joseph A. Signed Economics Political Economy Theory Process of Creative Destruction Harvard Industrial Mutation Progress Entrepreneurial Evolutionary Radical Innovation Schumpeter's gale Austrian Scho; Signed by Authors . Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
1948443j0499New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc. Good in Good dust jacket. 1948. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Signed without inscription by author upon title page. A first printing example of "the best-selling economics textbook of all time now in its 19th edition and having sold nearly four million copies in 40 languages. In 1970 Paul Samuelson 1915-2009 became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Economic historian Randall E. Parker has called him the 'Father of Modern Economics' and the New York Times considers him to be the 'foremost academic economist of the 20th century'." - Wikipedia. Signature upon half-title appears to be that of Professor Emeritus and Rhodes Scholar G. Coleman Woodbury 1903-1994 "one of the three-person team which drafted the legislation establishing America's public housing program the Housing Act of 1937". - University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Document 1108. pp. xx 2-622. Tight clean and unmarked with moderate peripheral wear to publisher's original teale cloth brightly lettered in gilt. Few small bits of loss to edges of the rare unclipped dust jacket which otherwise bears average wear and is now in archival protection. Housed in attractive new custom two-color acid-free clamshell box with marbled paper lining and leather title label on spine. Fundaburk 2037 Pressman 2nd Edn p.243.; Sm 4to; Signed by Author . McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. hardcover
1966443h6104Princeton: Princeton University Press. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1966. Third Printing. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by Milton Friedman upon half-title. "Uses historical time series and economic analysis to argue the then-novel proposition that changes in the money supply profoundly influenced the U.S. economy especially the behavior of economic fluctuations. The implication drawn is that changes in the money supply had unintended adverse effects and that sound monetary policy is necessary for economic stability. Orthodox economic historians see this as one of the most influential economics books of the century. Friedman 1912-2006 won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Upon his death The Economist described him as 'the most influential economist of the second half of the twentieth century. possibly all of it.'" - Wikipedia. Third printing of the 1963 first edition. Inscribed to John De Jong whose name is handwritten atop front free endpaper. No other markings. Dr. De Jong 1937-2018 was a member of the New York Municipal Analysts Society and contributed to the Dow Jones-Irwin Handbook of Municipal Bonds. Moderate wear to publisher's green cloth. pp. xxiv 860. Above-average wear and soiling to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A special copy of this eminent study. Cohen 407 Pressman 2e p.242 Weems p.45. ; Sm 4to; Signed by Author . Princeton University Press hardcover
1929313a9146Germany: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky A.G. Good. 1929. First Edition. Paperback. xii 147 2 ads pp. Index. "Beitrage zur Konjunkturforschung - Herausgegeben vom Osterreichischen Institut fur Konjunkturforschung nr. 1" - front cover. Text in German. In 1933 this work appeared for the first time in English as "Monetary Theory and the Trade Cycle". Hayek went on to share the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974. Moderate wear to original brown paper wrappers. Binding sound. Small chip from top of backstrip. Top corners of last five leaves were folded. Several mostly imperceptible pencil erasures in first 66 pages. A well-preserved example of the first edition of this Hayek's first book. Masui p.1277 Cohen 184 Cody & Ostrem B-1.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Geldtheorie Und Konjunkturtheorie Monetary Theory Trade Cycle Austrian School Economics Monetary Policy . Holder-Pichler-Tempsky A.G. paperback
1961159a8097Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1961. Third Impression. Hardcover. Good in Good dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Hayek upon front free endpaper to Swedish journalist Arvid Fredborg. A National Review Panel ranked this work as the ninth best non-fiction book of the twentieth century. "A positive statement of the principles of society that in scope and breadth is more like a new Wealth of Nations. A thorough exposition of a social philosophy which ranges from ethics and anthropology through jurisprudence and the history of ideas to the economics of the modern welfare state." - Publisher. Third printing. x 570 p. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket now in glossy new archival-grade protection. An attractive signed example of this influential work. Cody & Ostrem B-12 Pressman p.180.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; LOC # 59-11618 Von Hayek Friedrich A. The Constitution of Liberty Arvid Fredborg social philosophy ethics anthropology jurisprudence history of ideas economics modern welfare State Arvid Fredborg; Signed by Author . The University of Chicago Press hardcover
1955871G0085London: Allan Wingate. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1955. First English Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper. 552 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "One of the most important autobiographies of the post-war period for there can be few personalities still alive who have been so intimately connected with the march of world events for so many years. His first great triumph was to rescue the German Mark from the inflation of 1921. As the Nazi avalanche swelled Hitler persuaded him to occupy the Presidential chair at the Reichsbank. but Schacht soon saw that the Fuhrer was driving relentlessly towards war. A quarrel resulted and he left the Government remaining under a cloud until he was arrested towards the close of the regime." - from dust jacket. Schact was aquitted of war crimes at Nuremberg. Moderate wear to book. Binding intact. Several patches and touch-ups to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Kehr & Langmaid 1217 Aldcroft & Rodger p.83.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; My First Seventy-six Years: The Autobiography of Hjalmar Schacht Biography Nazi Germany Nuremberg Trials Reichsbank Central Banker German Democratic Party Weimer Republic Hyperinflation Bankers Montagu Norman Mark Inflation; Signed by Authors . Allan Wingate hardcover
1930169H4385New York: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited. Good. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. xx853viii899 pages. Index in each volume. First printing. Reflections and recollections of Paul Warburg 1868 - 1932 considered by many to have been the main driver behind the establishment of the Federal Reserve System in 1913. Warburg was reluctant to publish this work until in the autumn of 1928 "I became convinced that the Federal Reserve System had entered upon a gravely critical period in its career and that for the discussion about to ensue it was highly important that certain vital facts in the origin and growth of the System be adequately understood." - viii v1. Gilt lettering upon spines. Average wear to publisher's navy cloth. Bookplate of prior owner a Dutch doctor inside each front board. Laid in is the original handwritten purchase receipt dated 1931 issued by an Amsterdam book dealer. Front free endpaper of volume 2 neatly removed. Bindings and hinges intact. Dust jackets not included. A sound copy of this essential chronicle of early twentieth century American central bank history. Masui p.1431 Rist p.321.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Federal Reserve System The Fed History Nelson Aldrich Jekyll Island Central Banking - United States Federal Reserve Act Owen-Glass Bill Daddy Warbucks An Adventure in Constructive Finance Carter Glass . The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited hardcover
1947169H4974Irvington-on-Hudson New York: The Foundation for Economic Education Inc. 1947. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed and inscribed by author upon front free endpaper to General R.E. Wood 1879-1969 under whose leadership Sears Roebuck was transformed from a mail-order to a retail sales behemoth. pp. 6 7-90. "Communist plotters in the United States as elsewhere are preparing for the conquest of political power. The discerning student however should consider how interventionism under various enticing labels is setting the stage for the final overthrow of the voluntary society the market economy and constitutional government. This work by a world-famous expert will prove a valuable aid to understanding in this field. It will help to explain the errors of those who believe a system based on individual freedom can be 'mixed' with socialism." - Foreword. Book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. Above-average wear to price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Greaves & McGee B-14. The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc. Hardcover
1934169H5168New York: Adelphi Company Publishers. Good. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Stable Money Association gift bookplate inside front board is signed by Irving Fisher James Rand Jr. and Frederic A. Delano. Delano 1863-1953 was uncle to FDR President of the Stable Money Association and was appointed to serve on the first Board of the Federal Reserve by Woodrow Wilson. James Rand Jr. 1886-1968 was Chairman of the Committee For the Nation and a prominent American businessman. This copy inscribed to Ethan Bates Stanley who was President of the American Laundry Machinery Company. pp. vi vii-xxiii 484. Selected bibliography. Index. Extensive footnotes. "The present book is intended to be not so much a history of monetary catastrophes due to unstable money and endured by unsuspecting millions subject to the money illusion but rather a history of the efforts of a few to remedy or prevent such catastrophies." - xxi. Pages 443-484 constitute a lengthy list of Stable Money Pioneers individuals who supported the movement. Corporate affiliations are included for most of these names thus the list reads like a corporate Who's Who of America. Dust jacket not included. Average wear to publisher's pebbled navy cloth. Binding sound. Bookseller ink stamp inside front board. 21 x 14.5cm. Rist p.379 Cohen p.186 Fisher M-2058; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Monetary Policy Irving Fisher Frederic A. Delano Ethan Bates Stanley Stable Money Movement Committee For the Nation Stable Money Federal Reserve System Gold Standard London Economic Conference Weimar Hyperinflation Wiemar Stable Money League; Signed by Authors . Adelphi Company Publishers hardcover
1977429H2943Germany: J.C.B. Mohr Paul Siebeck Tubingen. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1977. First German Edition. Hardcover. 3163402720 . Signed and inscribed by Nobel laureate Hayek to prominent German legal scholar E.W. Ernst-Wolfgang Bockenforde atop front free endpaper. XIII 1 136 1 ad pages. Text in German. Argues government monopolization of the printing and circulation of money leads to its excessive creation thus inflation. Proposes private businesses be allowed to issue their own currency. Perhaps Satoshi Nakamoto was spurred in part by this work to introduce Bitcoin to the world. It is intriguing to contemplate what Dr. Hayek would think of cryptocurrencies. Clean bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A splendid copy. Bibliographic Reference: Pressman pages 177 and 180; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Entnationalisierung des Geldes: Eine Analyse der Theorie und Praxis konkurrierender Umlaufsmittel Denationalisation Denationalization of Money; Signed by Authors . J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Tubingen hardcover
1950324H5247Glencoe Illinois: The Free Press/Macmillan. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1950. First English Edition. Hardcover. "Ranks with Smith's Wealth of Nations Ricardo's Principles Marx's Capital Marshall's Principles and Keynes' General Theory as one of the six most important books ever written in its influence upon the development of modern economic theory. Menger's influence was not however confined to theoretical economics. The Austrian School of which he was the founder was a fountainhead of classical liberalism in the European continent. The ideas of the school and its founder are therefore relevant to the modern debate between socialism and liberalism. Since many of the staunchest modern advocates of laissez faire such as L.M. Mises and F.A.V. Hayek find their intellectual roots in Menger's Principles the translation of his work is of interest to those concerned about the relations between government and business as well as to economic theorists." - dust jacket. The long overdue first English edition of the 1871 German first edition. Menger 1840-1921 "attacked the half-decayed fabric of economics and is to be ranked among those who have torn down the structure of a science and placed it upon entirely new foundations." - Joseph Schumpeter. "Menger's Principles are the best introduction to the understanding of the theory of value which we possess." - F.A. Hayek. Former library copy with usual markings and moderate wear to original black cloth lettered in silver. Above-average wear to undulating dust jacket which is patched on spine and now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this economic tour de force. Fundaburk 9739 Hutchinson 347 Hazlitt p.115 Blaug p.160-162 Pressman p.89-94.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Economics Carl Menger Marginalist Revolution Value Theory Austrian School Marginal Utility Theory Price Theory Marginal Utility . The Free Press/Macmillan hardcover
1962324j0218Princeton New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand Company Inc. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. "Addressed to the intelligent educated layman as well as to the economist this work is a comprehensive and systematic exposition of the principles and doctrines of economic science. Assuming no previous knowledge of economics on the reader's part the author proceeds by a deductive chain of reasoning of which every link is made explicitly evident to draw the conclusions logically implied in the fundamental axiom of human action. Particularly notable is Dr. Rothbard's brilliant refutation of the dominant economic fallacies of our age. Among the economists whose doctrines are subjected to critical scrutiny are Schumpeter Marshall Fisher Keynes and Galbraith." - dust jacket. "One of the two greatest books on free market economics of the twentieth century." - Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. "Murray Rothbard 1926-1995 was an American economist of the Austrian School and a central figure in the 20th-century American libertarian movement." - Wikipedia. From the collection of noted anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz 1922-2015 whose name and location are handwritten atop front free endpaper of each volume. Mintz was "best known for his studies of the Caribbean creolization and the anthropology of food." - Wikipedia. Both volumes clean bright tight and otherwise unmarked with light wear. Pale green 0.75" diameter sticker in lower left corner of each front fixed endpaper. Average wear and soiling to moderately spine-sunned dust jackets now preserved in glossy new archival-grade protection. A quality example of this eminent study. Fundaburk 2021. ; The William Volker Fund Series in the Humane Studies; 8vo . D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. hardcover
1944356j1775Princeton: Princeton University Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. The classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based. "Posterity may regard this book as one of the major scientific achievements of the first half of the twentieth century." - American Mathematical Society Bulletin. "The appearance of a book of this calibre is indeed a rare event." - American Economic Review. "I have sometimes wondered whether a brain like von Neumann's does not indicate a species superior to that of man." - Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe. 1944 First edition. xviii 625 p. Name Index. Subject Index. Index of Figures. Tight and unmarked with average wear to original brown cloth. Professionally cloth rebacked preserving original backstrip. Lacking dust jacket and Corrigenda slip. 9.6" x 6.6". A sound first edition example of this momentous work. Sraffa 4345 Pressman p.189. ; 8vo . Princeton University Press hardcover
1913426j0468Washington D.C.: Charles A. Lindbergh / National Capital Press Inc. Good. 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. In the hysteria of wartime 1918 federal agents forced the destruction of this book's printing plates. per page 7 of Lindbergh's "Your Country At War". "The market prices of commodities vary from day to day and often several times a day despite no radical difference in the proportion of the supply and the natural demand. This fact is conclusive proof that our system is controlled by manipulators and fundamentally wrong. I have sought to elucidate this problem within this volume and have suggested a plan which if adopted would make the people the master of the world instead of the present master - THE MONEY TRUST." - page 3. "A populist classic on the nature of so-called 'panics.' Lindbergh claims he was offered millions in bribe money not to publish this book." - A Populist Bibliography p.163. "Charles August Lindbergh 1859-1924 was a United States Congressman from Minnesota's 6th congressional district from 1907 to 1917. He opposed American entry into World War I as well as the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. In 1917 he brought articles of impeachment against Federal Reserve Board of Governors including Paul Warburg and William P. G. Harding charging that they were involved 'in a conspiracy to violate the Constitution and laws of the United States'." - Wikipedia. 318 pages. Average wear to original green cloth boldly lettered in gilt. Binding intact. Rusty paperclip impressions atop pages 29-38. Rubber stamp of prior owner atop front free endpaper which is creased at top. Dust jacket not included if one was issued. A sound copy of this rare and important piece of American monetary history. Weems p.163; Sm 8vo . Charles A. Lindbergh / National Capital Press, Inc. hardcover
1982566j0533Atlantic Highlands New Jersey: Humanities Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 0391023713 . Signed without inscription by Murray Rothbard atop front free endpaper. "Economics can help supply much of the data for a libertarian position but it cannot establish that political philosophy itself. For political judgements are necessarily value-judgements political philosophy is therefore necessarily ethical and hence a positive ethical system must be set forth to establish the case for individual liberty." - Preface. "Rothbard 1926-1995 was a central figure in the 20th-century American libertarian movement and a founder and leading theoretician of anarcho-capitalism" - Wikipedia. Clean and unmarked with moderate peripheral wear to original dark blue cloth brightly lettered in gilt. Binding tight. Light foxing to edges. No dust jacket apparently as issued. A quality signed copy of this fascinating study. ; Sm 4to; Signed by Author . Humanities Press hardcover
1944039964Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1944. First American Edition 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Good/No DJ. Xi 250 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt. First Printing 1944. Light Wear With A Single Tiny Point Of Fraying At Base Of Spine; Spine Gilt All Present And Lettering All Clear Spine Cloth A Little Faded. Covers Clean With Some Loss Of Color In A Thin Line And In A Small Spot On Front Cover. Publisher's Red Top Stain Without Spotting. Pages Just A Little Aged Even Aging To Endpapers No Foxing. No Names A Few Pencil Marks In Text.The Ultimate Academic Statement That Government Will Not Offer Protection Against Commercial Bullies Polluters Liars And Sociopaths Of All Kinds Arguing That This Passivity Is Somehow In The Best Interests Of The People; Also The Ultimate Statement That Academic Economists Are Somehow Experts In The Determination And Evaluation Of What Those Best Interests Are Otherwise They Could Not Make This Recommendation For Passivity! The Epitome Of Specious Reasoning Of Immense Appeal To Those For Whom Specious Reasoning In The Public Sphere Is Very Much In Their Best Personal Interests. However The Book Also Rightfully Directs Attention To The Sociopathy Of Government Itself And Its Pervasive Ignorance Immorality And Incompetence Which Any Review Of 10000 Years Of Human History Will Fully Support. Unfortunately Hayek Cannot Escape His Own Role As A Sophistic Academic Interpreter Of Economics For The Masses Promoting The Sole Interest Of The Ruler As Has Occurred Also For 10000 Years. <br/> <br/> University of Chicago Press hardcover
1923227j0885Philadelphia: Dorrance Publishers. Good with no dust jacket. 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. "We are too much under the influence of others - just a few - some of whom we are taught to worship while still others whom we seldom even know control the things that control us." - page 9. "Provides more of the same information as was provided in Lindbergh's 1913 'Banking and Currency and the Money Trust' with added facts about the state of affairs ten years after the adoption of the Fed." - A Populist Bibliography p.163. 8-249 pp. Index. Unmarked. Binding intact. Moderate wear to original dark maroon cloth lettered in black. No dust jacket if one was issued. A sound and rare first edition example of this classic work by Charles A. Lindbergh 1859-1924 father of the famous aviator of the same name. Weems p. 163 ; Sm 8vo . Dorrance Publishers hardcover
1924324j1569Munich: Verlag Von Duncher & Humblot. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1924. Zweite Neubearbeitete Auflage. Hardcover. "A detailed sophisticated explanation of the quantity theory of money based on the subjective marginal utility theory. Explains money's origin the development and nature of banking the cause and consequences of inflation and credit expansion the differences in the value of different moneys as well as the reason for 'cyclical' economic fluctuations. Includes a new introduction." - Greaves & McGee B2. Text in German. xv 420 p. Handsome gilt decoration and lettering upon original navy buckram. Binding tight. New full front endpaper. Small bookseller label inside front board. Faint writing to foot of backstrip. Library stamp to title page otherwise contents clean and unmarked. An attractive and well-preserved example. Rist p.322 Batson p.194 Masui p.955.; 8vo . Verlag Von Duncher & Humblot hardcover
1927313a1752London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. Good. 1927. First English Edition. Hardcover. "This is a book written by a German after a war which brought defeat to his country and a great civilized people to a condition of dependence and subordination. The German Inflation can only be understood as part of the general history of the time. May we all learn from the past and emerge from the destructive era of reciprocal hostility into a new constructive period of international well-being." - Foreward. Chapters include: The Inflation of the War Period; From the Armistice to the Invasion of the Ruhr; From the Invasion of the Ruhr to the Stabilization of the Mark; The Stabilization of the Mark; From Rentenbank to Golddiskontbank; From Currency Crisis to Economic Crisis; The Dawes Plan; The Reconstruction of German Money and Capital Markets; Foreign Credits; International Co-operation. "Schacht became one of the directors of the Reichsbank in 1916 and in 1923 became currency commissioner for the Reich. After his economic policies helped reduce German inflation and stabilize the German mark Schacht was appointed president of the Reichsbank. He collaborated with other prominent figures in economics to form the Young Plan to modify the way that war reparations were paid after Germany's economy was destabilizing under the Dawes Plan. Though on March 7 1930 six months after the beginning of the Great Depression he stepped down from the position of Reichsbank Chairman but returned on March 17 1933 after Hitler's rise to power." - Wikipedia. 247 pages. Black and white photographic frontis portrait of author. Binding intact. Unmarked with average wear. Bright gilt lettering upon black cloth backstrip. Mild foxing to endpapers. A sound copy. Aldcroft & Rodger p.83 Peterson p.367.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Schacht Dr. Hjalmar Deutsch Mark Germany Currency Inflation Weimar Republic Weimar Devaluation Debasement World War One 1 Reichsbank The Inflation of the War Period; From the Armistice to the Invasion of the Ruhr; From the Invasion of the Ruhr to the S . George Allen & Unwin Ltd. hardcover
194785730Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1947. Revised Second Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's deep brown cloth with red and gilt titles to spine. Dustjacket. xviii; 641pp. Some light scuffing to corners and a little light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends clean and bright; topstain red internally clean and fresh with some informed underlining and emphasis from a previous reader in the early part of the text; in a clean dustjacket with a portion of loss to the joint of the front and rear flaps toning most heavily to the spine panel and shallow chipping and loss to the spine ends with old tape reinforcement to the verso of the jacket. A very good handsome copy of an important book in a dustjacket that has seen some wear. Shows very well.<br /> <br /> Von Neumann and Morgenstern were the first theorists to build a framework for the analysis of strategic decision making ostensibly in "game" environments but essentially expanding that framework out over a significant portion of human interactions. The basic supporting member is that each decision maker will attempt to improve their own situation and maximize their own outcomes thus making their choices at least partially predictable and measurable. Much like Mackay's "Extraordinary Popular Delusions" "The Madness of Crowds" in 1841 "Theory of Games" is one of those works that changed enormously how we think about human interaction and the concepts of free will and independent decision making. The influence of this work has in one form or another extended into a myriad of different fields; from military intelligence via the stock market and economic to computing and how we decide to lay out supermarket shelves. Fiercely collectible since publication early printings are thin on the ground. Princeton University Press unknown
1927169H4514Garden City New York: Doubleday Page & Company. Good. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. "There is no man living who from the beginning or in the progress or at the ending of federal reserve legislation was more closely or constantly than I privy to and identified with the consideration and enactment of the law under which the federal reserve banking system was set up. Ever since the enactment of the federal reserve law it has been my intention to write some day a story of the many inside events word of which never reached beyond a closely restricted circle and had no such thing as current newspaper attention. Very likely my desire to tell the dramatic story would have abated if not for the recent publication of the 'Intimate Papers' in which the paternity of the Federal Reserve Act and its particular management are placidly ascribed to Colonel E.M. House." - Introduction. Accordingly Chapter III of this book is devoted to a scathing critique of the veracity of 'The Intimate Papers of Colonel House' first published in 1926. Colonel House was an intimate confidant of Woodrow Wilson President when the Federal Reserve Act was passed. Latter day conspiracy researchers argue House successfully advocated for the interests of the House of Rothschild during the development and passage of the Federal Reserve Act. In response to Glass's book Paul Warburg also instrumental in the founding of the Federal Reserve was "impelled to lay down in black and white my recollections of certain events in the history of banking reform." - Preface to his two-volume work The Federal Reserve System Its Origins and Growth - Reflections and Recollections published in 1930. Commenting on Glass's book James Grant of Interest Rate Observer fame notes "the story of the creation of the Fed by its chief progenitor Carter Glass makes you doubt he would recognize today's Federal Reserve were he brought back to life to inspect it. He explodes in indignation at any who would impugn the proposed Federal Reserve note as mere fiat money. In fact he considered the currency to be as good as gold - or better." Clearly Glass's recollections herein represent a profoundly important chronicle of the origins and founding of the Federal Reserve System. Frontispiece photo portrait of Woodrow Wilson. x 2 423 pages. Index. Former university library copy with usual markings. Sturdily rebound in navy buckram.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Senator Carter Glass Federal Reserve Act - history Federal Reserve Paul Warburg Henry Parker Willis Central Bank - United States Edward M. House The Intimate Papers of Colonel House Edward Mandell House The creature from jekyll Island . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
1931313a9147Germany: Verlag Von Julius Springer. Good. 1931. First German Edition. Paperback. xv 1 124 3 ads pp. Index. Text in German. "Beitrage zur Konjunkturforschung - Herausgegeben vom Osterreichischen Institut Fur Konjunkturforschung Nr. 3" - front cover. "A collection of four lectures covering theories of the influence of money on prices the conditions of equilibrium between the production of consumers' goods the working of the price mechanism in the course of the credit cycle and the case for and against an 'elastic' currency." - Jacob Cohen. Unread as most pages uncut. Average wear to original brown wrappers which are partially separated from textblock. Bit of writing at base of spine. 1939 New York Times Book Review of Schumpeter's 'Business Cycles' laid in. A sound copy of this Hayek's second book. Machlup B-2 Cody & Osrem B-2 Hutchinson 912 Cohen 183 Sraffa 2422.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Preise Und Produktion Common English Title: Prices and Production Beitrage zur Konjunkturforschung - Herausgegeben vom Osterreichischen Institut Fur Konjunkturforschung Nr. 3" . Verlag Von Julius Springer paperback
1973324G4612USA: Arlington House. Good in Good dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 0870001426 . 240 pages. Index. Signed and inscribed by Henry Hazlitt upon front free endpaper. "Man throughout history has been searching for the cure for poverty and all that time the cure has been before his eyes. That cure Hazlitt shows is free enterprise." - from dust jacket. Henry Hazlitt was one of America's foremost economic journalists. Moderate wear to clean and unmarked book which bears quarter-inch notch where foot of spine meets front board. Dust jacket bears average wear with pronounced sunning to spine and top half inch of back panel and is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Poverty Economics Theory USA; Signed by Authors . Arlington House hardcover
1903443j2092London: C.W. Daniel. Fair with no dust jacket. 1903. First British Edition. Hardcover. "It is a deplorable fact and one to which is accountable the continuance of a system which has been a failure many times during the last century that not one person in ten thousand has any really intelligent idea of the science of money - a subject which is usually treated as one of profound mystery and which only a banker is capable of understanding. To one not blinded by custom and prejudice the money question is quite comprehensible. But because of the prevalence of false and contradictory theories students find the subject hopelessly involved in ambiguities and intricacies. It is with the hope that it my evoke a spirit of inquiry leading to a clearer understanding of this most important subject that this work is published." - Preface to the British Edition. First published in the U.S. in 1894. xxvi 231 p. "Arthur Kitson 1859-1937 was a British monetary theorist and inventor. He formed the Economic Freedom League with Frederick Soddy and was active in this venture through the 1920s. He became convinced Jewish bankers were the cause of his bankruptcy and most of the world's miseries. He sent Ezra Pound a copy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion even before Pound changed from a money radical to a notorious anti-Semite. By the time of his death Arthur Kitson was the second most influential fascist in Britain the first being Oswald Mosley. In his late years he was brought to Germany to consult with Nazi Party economists." - Wikipedia. Binding intact. Prior owner's name inside front board. Former library copy with minor evidence where all related markings have been removed. Above-average wear to original red cloth lettered in gilt upon spine. No dust jacket presumably as issued. A sound and rare example of this highly-regarded analysis of the money question. Masui p.248 ; 8vo . C.W. Daniel hardcover
1937652j1221Edmonton Alberta: Alberta Government Telephones AGT. 1937. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. A large and wonderful collection of the AGT publication "Alberta Calls" spanning forty years of the company's history. "Alberta Government Telephones now known as Telus was the telephone provider in most of Alberta from 1906 to 1991." - Wikipedia. Includes these issues: Dec '37entitled "The Silent Partner Aug '38 Apr '41 Dec '41 Feb '42 Aug '43 Feb '45 June '45 June '46 Aug '46 Dec '46 Feb '47 June '47 Dec '48 Aug '50 Dec '50 Dec '51 Feb '53 June '53 Aug '53 Oct '53 Dec '53 Feb '54 Apr '54 June '54 Aug '54 Oct '54 Dec '54 Feb '55 Aug '55 June '56 Mar '57 July '57 Sept '66 Jan '67. Most issues 10" x 6.75". The latest five are in a larger 10.75" x 8.25" format. Most issues range from twenty to thirty pages. A sampling of the content includes: Historic Blockhouse Near Wetaskiwin To Be Preserved Aug '38; Long Distance Traffic Statistics back covers of many issues; Photos of employee's sons on active military service Apr '41; A nice article with Lethbridge content Dec '41; A. M. Mitchell Appointed Deputy Minister and General Manager Aug '43; Photo of AGT hockey team which played The Northern Alberta Railways team Feb '45; Organization Chart Feb '45; Photos of linemen at work in the early '20s June '46; Opening of Toll Service to Grande Prairie - Peace River Area Aug '46; Photo of Norman MacIver and pals after his 240 yard hole-in-one Dec '46; Great group photo of annual picnic at Sarcee in 1917; Photo of the 1917 AGT baseball team June '47; Retirement of R. Molloy June '47; Group photo of Claresholm staff Dec '48; Wonderful centerfold photo of Edmonton staff picnic attendees Aug '50; Leduc Hotel explosion Dec '50; Retirement of longest serving employee Fred R. Daniels Dec '51; New Taber Exchange June '53; Obituary of A.M. Allen Aug '53; Jasper Place Exchange Oct '53; Footballer Alex Yakunin; England Travelogue of Miss Dorothy Buckley; Reminiscences of Field Plant Inspector 'Stu'; Retirement of Frank Jackson Traffic Engineer; New Killarney Exchange finally brings phones to 2800 Calgarians Aug '54; Article by Miss Agnes Shade a successful employee and pure Blackfoot Indian who describes "Progress For Our Original Canadians"; Eight photos of a Pole Top Rescue demonstration Dec '54; Nice photo of Lethbridge employees in 1921 Feb '55; Mrs. A. Kropp and the Leduc Telephone Office - nice article with photos Aug '55; Caroline fire June '56; Rural Mutual Telephone Companies in Alberta Mar '57; The Tower Trail - Construction of the Trans-Canada Microwave System - with great photos July '57; Processing the coins from 3200 payphones in Alberta Sept '66; Article and photos of Bob McLellan traversing muskeg to maintain equipment around Lac La Biche Jan '67. Most issues contain abundant employee social family and sporting news and photos. Several issues describe functions of the Telephone Pioneers. Speaking of which this collection appears to have been assembled by former AGT employee William E.J. Russ who is mentioned on page 15 of the June '53 issue and whose initials and address appear on several other issues. In addition this collection includes two of Mr. Russ's certificates of membership in the Telephone Pioneers of America dated 1953 and 1935. Minor markings in only one issue. All issues complete and intact aside from the June '53 issue in which the middle pages are loose but present. An extraordinary repository of AGT company and employee history.; Sm 4to . Alberta Government Telephones (AGT) unknown
