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Keynesian microstatics, and a capital theory along the lines of Böhm-Bawerk. By combining all these elements into a unified theoretical apparatus, Value and Capital provided the springboard from which the brilliant theorists of the next generation would jump off . . . Overall, Hicks will probably appear in the history of economics as the greatest British theorist of the century” (ibid., pp. 359, 371). Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. With 25 diagrams in text. Spine ends very lightly rubbed, else a fine and clean copy, in price-clipped jacket, extensively restored, part of publisher’s device on spine panel supplied in pen facsimile, a presentable example of an elusive jacket. ¶ Jürg Niehans, A History of Economic Theory: Classic Contributions, 1720–1980 , 1994. £2,500 [154663] 85 HIRST, Damien. Butterfly Rainbow. London: Damien Hirst, 2020 Edition of 1,497, numbered and digitally signed on a label attached to the verso. Hirst created this work to raise funds for NHS Charities Together and he Felix Project during the Coronavirus crisis in the UK. Laminated giclée print on aluminium composite panel. Sheet size: 48.2 × 100 cm. Excellent condition. £2,750 [142178]
of the House of Lords and still in force, and An Act for abolishing of Diversity of Opinions of certain Articles concerning Christian Religion, further entrenching Henry’s Reformation and introducing the Six Articles. Folio (290 × 196 mm). Early 20th-century blue quarter morocco, spine lettered in gilt (“Statutes 31 Henry VIII. 1573”), blue cloth sides. Complete with terminal blank. Pencilled notes commenting on the book to front endpapers. Spine with insect damage, but binding holding firm. Contents with light running stain at foot, gently toned, slight paper flaw affecting a couple of letters to E1, still an excellent copy, crisp with wide margins. ¶ Beale S186; ESTC S121473; STC 9400.3. £2,000 [154685] 84 HICKS, John R. Value and Capital. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1939 HIS key work, IN JACKET First edition, very scarce in the dust jacket, of the author’s most significant book – “in the field of pure theory it was probably the most influential book in the first half of the 20th century” (Niehans, p. 359). “The book’s extraordinary influence was due to the timely synthesis it offered. The general equilibrium of Walras, Pareto’s ordinal utility, and Slutsky’s analysis of comparative-static effects were all integrated with post-Wicksellian dynamics,
Also included is the Proclamation by the Crown Act, enabling the King to legislate by decree, marking the height of Henry VIII’s power, repealed in 1547. Sir William Blackstone called the Act “a statute, which was calculated to introduce the most despotic tyranny; and which must have proved fatal to the liberties of this kingdom, had it not been luckily repealed” ( Commentaries on the Laws of England , bk 1, chap. 7). Other acts include the House of Lords Precedence Act, prescribing the order of precedence of members
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