Business Cycles by Schumpeter, Joseph A - 1939

McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc, 1939. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/NONE. 8th printing as noted by VIII on copyright page. 448 clean, unmarked, tight pages; a few tiny spots inside front and back covers; cover is clean and sturdy with mild fraying at ends of spine, slightly worn corners, and a pale dashed line along the front near the spine; no dj

New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1939. First Edition; Sixth Impression. Hardcover. Volumes are unirormly bound in red cloth with printed black spine labels and gilt spine lettering. Heavy, extra for international postage.; 6" x 9"; xvi, 448+ix,[449]-1095 pp; Volumes are lighty rubbed esp at spine top/bottom and corners (Volume I a bit more), solid and square bindings, no inscriptions. Scattered underlining in Volume I (much in pencil, some ink as well), a few pages with faint marginal toning at upper right corner. Volume II is clean and unmarked within. .

New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1939. Fourth Inpression of the 1939 First edition. Two volumes in original red cloth, black labels and gilt lettering at spines. Very Good, Vol.II with tears to cloth at spine, light rubbing at the tips, contents clean and unmarked. Although initially viewed less favorably than John Maynard Keynes, Schumpeter is now viewed as one of the greatest economists of modern times. He introduced the concept of the entrepreneur and the influence of entrepreneurship on economic systems, and the theory of dynamic economic growth known as creative destruction. . Fourth Impression. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York 1939 first edition, fourth impression McGraw Hill. Hardcovers. Two volumes. Large octavos, 1095p., reddish-brown cloth with black spine labels and gilt spine letterings. VG plus, faint smudge of color on spine of one volume, faint even toning to text. Set in excellent condition. Sought-after Economics Classic. Almost no wear. no djs. No ownership marks. .

New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc., 1939. Book. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xvi, 448, x, 449-1095 pages. Index. Graphs. Issued without dust jackets. VIII upon copyright page presumably indicates this set to be from the eighth printing. Former library copy with most associated markings removed. Bindings intact. A sound vintage copy of this classic work in which Schumpeter "recommends no policy, limiting his study to scientific analysis of the economic process. Schumpeter's theory of business cycles is consistent with his theory of economic development and presents some alternatives to Mitchell's approach, which was different in many ways." - Hutchinson 734. Pressman p.162, Swedberg p.240, Aldcroft & Rodger p.8..

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1939. Schumpeter’s theory of business cycles puts its emphasis on industrial innovations rather than banking. Schumpeter starts his account of business cycles at the top rather than the bottom of the cycle. "The reader needs only to make the experiment. If he comes to survey industrial history from, say, 1760 onwards, he will discover two things; he will find that very many booms are unmistakably characterized by revolutionary changes in some branch of industry which, in consequence, leads the boom, railways, for instance in the forties, or steel in the eighties, or electricity in the nineties.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1939. Schumpeter’s theory of business cycles puts its emphasis on industrial innovations rather than banking. Schumpeter starts his account of business cycles at the top rather than the bottom of the cycle. "The reader needs only to make the experiment. If he comes to survey industrial history from, say, 1760 onwards, he will discover two things; he will find that very many booms are unmistakably characterized by revolutionary changes in some branch of industry which, in consequence, leads the boom, railways, for instance in the forties, or steel in the eighties, or electricity in the nineties.