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to employment, such as how full employment should be defined, disguised unemployment, and remedies for unemployment. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. Spine ends a little rubbed. A near-fine copy in very good, toned jacket, a few nicks, slight loss at head of spine panel. ¶ Cicarelli & Cicarelli 032; Fundaburk 10055; The New Palgrave IV, pp. 212–17. £425 [124176] 138 ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques. Discours sur l’origine et les fondemens de l’inegalité parmi les hommes. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1755 The origin of inequality First edition, first issue, of Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality , an attack upon conventional society and a plea for the rights and dignity of the individual. The work is the second of two essays which Rousseau wrote for a prize at the Dijon Academy; unlike the first, the Discourse on the Arts and Sciences , it did not win, but it is today the better known. Rousseau presents, in contrast to Hobbes, an idyllic vision of a “state of nature” preceding government and civil society. It was only through the establishment of government, private property, and a material society, that humanity is corrupted and becomes marked by inequality and entrenched poverty. Rousseau’s work fed into 18th-century interpretations of the “noble savage”, and his idea of the innate goodness and perfectibility of the individual were developed into his Emile and Du contrat social , both published seven years later. Octavo (191 × 125 mm). Contemporary mottled sheep, orange morocco label, gilt foliate devices in compartments, marbled edges. Bound in at the rear is Edmé Boursault’s Esope à la Cour (Paris: Jean Mossy, 1776). Engraved frontispiece and engraved vignette to title and dedication. Joints and extremities neatly restored. Binding firm, contents clean and fresh; an excellent copy. ¶ Dufour I, 55; Goldsmiths’ 9064; Higgs 940; Kress 5470; Tchemerzine V, p. 532. £3,750 [149588]
This work contains Robbins’s famous definition of economics, which is still accepted by most economists: “Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses” (p. 15). Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Light sunning to spine but gilt bright, very light peripheral rubbing to extremities, minor ink mark to p. 49 else contents clean and fresh; an excellent copy. £2,250 [149347] 137 ROBINSON, Joan. Essays in the Theory of Employment. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1937 First edition, first impression, of Robinson’s collection of essays in which she applies Keynesian theories to specific issues related
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