Search Results: Economics from Twin City Antiquarian Books

New York: The Viking Press, 1945 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Rust cloth, black titles on spine and device on front board, top edge dyed black, [vii], 445 pp, footnotes. Spine ends bumped, some slight fading and soil to cloth, owner's name stamped on front paste-down and title page. This late work (Veblen's last book to be published in his lifetime) was first published in 1923 by B. W. Huebsch, which was merged in The Viking Press shortly after the latter's founding in 1925. In his introductory chapter, Veblen states by way of summary that "the absentee owners large and small have come to control the ways and means of prouction and distribution, at large and in detail, in what is to be done and what is to be left undone. And the business interests of these absentee owners no longer coincide in any passable degree with the material interests of the underlying population, whose livelihood is bound up with the due work of this… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black cloth, orange titles on spine, [vi], 188 pp, index. Rubbed & bumped, edges foxed, owner's name rubber-stamped on front paste-down and title page. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). Later printing. . VG/No dj. 19½ X 13½ cm.

New York, Chichester, Brisbane, Toronto, Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1996 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, foil titles on spine, xiii, 383 pp, notes, bibliography, name index, subject index. Owner's name & address stamped on fpd, half-title & title pages, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Bernstein discusses our understanding of risk and risk management from ancient times to the present in a highly readable manner. He tells the stories of merchants who shared risk by financing shares of many ventures rather than risking all their wealth in a single voyage, the origins of insurance, mathematicians who discovered how to use statistics to measure risk, the rise of mutual funds, and the origins of derivatives, which are far more ancient than most of us would suspect. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). 6th ptg. . Near Fine/Fine. 23½ X 15½ cm.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped titles, 365 pp including numerous color and B/W illustrations, notes, index. Boards slightly faded and worn along top and bottom edges, a bit of excess glue at gutter of fep, half-title and title pages (I don't know if this is a manufacturing defect or a repair.), else fine. DJ rubbed, worn at edges, has two 2 cm closed tears and a long scratch on back panel; in Brodart archival cover. A popular history of economic ideas and their effects on society, with a heavy emphasis on the 20th Century. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. BCE. . Near Fine/VG. 25½ X 18½ cm.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped titles, 365 pp including numerous color and B/W illustrations, notes, index. Two leaves browned by piece of newspaper laid in, else fine. DJ worn at edges, has a few 1-2 cm closed tears with creasing, spine slightly faded, introductory price partially obscured by Dayton's sticker; in Brodart archival cover. A popular history of economic ideas and their effects on society, with a heavy emphasis on the 20th Century. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/VG. 25½ X 18½ cm.

Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green boards, black cloth spine with gilt titles, pale green endpapers, xviii, 616 pp, notes, bibliography, index. DJ in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "McCloskey's sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities--from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich--overturns every assumption we have about being bourgeois. ... Applying a new tradition of 'virtue ethics' to our lives in modern economies, she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults, and celebrates the bourgeois lives we actually live without supposing that they must be without ethical foundation." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1950 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, gilt titles on front board & spine, xv, 527 pp, 8 charts including fold-out chart of American business activity since 1790, bibliographies, index. Titles on spine dull, slight shelf wear, scattered neat pencil notes & underlining. Contents: part one (business fluctuations; time series & their analysis; records of business cycles; measurement & description of cycles; general pattern of a business cycle; great depressions; the war cycle); part two--theories of the cycle (innovation; real causes: the principle of acceleration, agriculture & the business cycle; psychological causes; monetary theory of the cycle; monetary overinvestment & the structure of production; underconsumption theories; saving & investment; the theories of J. M. Keynes; general conclusions); stabilization (monetary management: control… Read More

Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1992 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark mustard cloth, gilt titles on spine, x, 387 pp, charts, tables, author & subject indices. DJ spine sunned, a 1" chip at bottom of front panel near spine; in Brodart archival cover. This book is "A National Bureau of Economic Research Project Report." From the DJ: "In the increasingly global economy, domestic tax policies have taken on a new importance for international economics. This unique volume compares the tax reform experiences of Canada and the United States, two countries with the world's largest bilateral flow of trade and investment. ...[an] interesting conclusion from these investigations is that although tax policies differ, outcomes are often quite similar. For example, they generate roughly the same amounts of revenue, produce similar costs of capital, and produce comparable distributions of income." Shipping… Read More

New York: Four Wall Eight Windows, 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by Paul Haviland, foreword by Felix Rohatyn. Original title: Capitalisme contre Capitalisme. Black boards, white titles on spine, xix, 260 pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. The author was president of Assurances Générale de France. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). First US Edition. . As New/As New. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1965 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brilliant orange cloth with titles screened in black, xiii, 242 pp, 4 ff photos not in pagination, charts, tables, index. Top corners bumped, slight edge wear, else fine. DJ shows slight edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. Cochrane, a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Minnesota and previously an advisor to President Kennedy, discussed how farming had changed in the 20th century, the economic problem of chronic overcapacity and resultant low prices, and policy responses that had been proposed. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter green cloth, pale green paper-covered boards, foil titles on spine, x, 325 pp, charts, notes, index. Four pages creased during manufacturing, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Contains twelve papers comparing predictions of economic models to actual economic performance by twenty authors, including the editor, who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Science in 1980, and Robert Shiller. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). First Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 24½ X 16½ cm.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue cloth with gilt title and publisher's device on spine, xi, 201, [1] pp, 18 figures, footnotes, index. Endpapers browning a bit. Price-clipped DJ has small chips & tears (up to 1 cm) on edges and spine, and a few black ink spots on front panel; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "Keynes has shown us why business activity varies; but he has not shown why it is that the variations tend to cyclical in character. The explanation here advanced is based upon the so-called Acceleration Principle; but allowance is made for the consequences of this principle being at work in an advancing economy, of its being subject to complex lags, and of an asymmetry between its behaviour in booms and in slumps." Hicks was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 1972. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). 2nd ptg. Fine/VG+. 19 X 13 cm.

Washington, D. C: The Brookings Institution, 1949 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, xii, 397 pp, index. Slight wear to spine ends, fore-ege slightly nicked, one corner and top edge of rear board lightly bumped. DJ has slight edge wear and a couple of water spots near tail of spine; in Brodart archival cover. Combination of historical, theoretical, and policy-oriented treatment based on studies the author participated in over the previous 30 years. From the Preface: "Part I looks backward and undertakes to appraise the forces and factors which accounted for the extraordinary, and unexpected, economic progress of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and also the sources of maladjustment which restrained the rate of advancement. Part II looks forward. It indicates the economic potentialities of the century ahead and outlines the policies essential to their realization." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near… Read More

New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1966 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown cloth, gilt titles on spine, [i], 220 pp, notes, bibliography, index. Analysis of Webster's economic views as expressed mostly in his speeches in Congress. Originally published 1929. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). Reprint. . Fine/No dj. 22 X 14½ cm.

New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey boards, gilt-on-brown titles on front board & spine, xii, 516 pp, index. Top corner of ffep torn out, otherwise good, extremities rubbed & bumped, owner's name in ink on title page, scattered color pencil notations. Contents: data, variables & models; probability; random variables & probability distributions; classical statistical inference; errors in variables & nonnormal errors; covariance analysis & pooling cross-section & time-series data; trend, seasonal variation & forecasting; distributed-lag models; varying parameter models; Bayesian methods in econometrics. Appendices: matrix algebra; the linear model in matrix notation; simultaneous-equation models; exercises; tables. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 4th ptg. . Fair/No dj. 24 X 17 cm.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark grey cloth with gilt and red foil titles and decorations on front board and spine, top edge dyed grey, xvii, 334 pp, index. Very lightly rubbed at corners and spine ends, one leaf dog-eared. DJ rubbed and creased a bit at corners and spine ends, with two edge tears (the larger 4 mm long); in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "Readers will finish this book not only with a new view of how the modern economy works, but also with a new sense of what it takes to avoid its more disastrous effects. Galbraith, as may be expected, presents his powerful and even revolutionary analysis in a style that is disarmingly elegant and witty. Somehow it seems improper (though fortunate) that a work of such commanding importance and intellectual depth should be so thoroughly accessible to the average reader as well as to the professional economist." Shipping weight 3 lbs.… Read More

Washington, D. C: The Catholic University of America Press, 1948 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in stiff grey paper wraps, black titles, viii, 152 pp, footnotes, bibliography, index. Chips to bottom margins of front cover and first few dozen pages, else fine. Contents: the classical theory of value; Gray's conception of value & distribution; the need for reform; law of markets in the classical school; Gray's interpretation of the law of markets: socialist & monetary aspects; Gray's relation to Owen and the Ricardian socialists and to the continental socialists; appraisal of John Gray. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). Wraps. G+/No dj. 23 X 15½ cm.

Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1966 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown cloth, gilt titles & decorations on spine, xv, 543 pp, glossary, bibliography, index. Bookplate on ffep, else fine. DJ slightly browned about the edges; in Brodart archival cover. Collects representative material otherwise not readily available in English. Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 4 oz.). First Edition. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 24½ X 17½ cm.

Washington, D. C: Public Affairs Press, 1968 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Printed paper wraps, black titles, viii, 167 pp, notes, index. Covers lightly worn & soiled, previous owner's name on front cover. Economic analysis of one of the great marketing gimmicks of the 20th century. Contents: the stamp system; quasi-currency; consumer demand; supply through supermarkets; supply through other retailers; structure of the stamp industry; competition in the trading stamp industry; the stamp company as a retailer; prior studies of stamp book values; retail values of S & H stamps; trading stamps & retail prices; trading stamps in economic perspective. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. 23 X 15 cm.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1944 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Grey cloth with titles in gold on red ground, xiv, 465 pp, index, numerous maps, tables, and charts included in pagination. Bottom corners bumped and bottom edges rubbed, a faint smudge or two on boards. Seventeen economists analyze both pre-existing and war-time economic conditions in Latin America in general, with specific analyses for Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, Paraguay, and Venezuela. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 3rd ptg. . VG+/No dj. 23 X 15½ cm.