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ly after completing her degree in 1937 Makower collaborated with the “father of econometrics” Jacob Marschak at the Oxford Institute of Statistics, where “she made a pioneering contribution to mod- ern asset portfolio theory and to the study of labour mobility” ( New Palgrave ). It was around this time that she became a faculty member at her alma mater, where she and Robbins crossed paths again, as they would continue to do so as prominent members of the LSE economics department. In his 1952 work A Geometry of International Trade J. E. Meade thanked both British economists for their com- ments on the manuscript, and at the close of the decade Robbins offered to teach the course which had been taught by Makower since 1952, a survey of economic analysis. During the Second World War Makower served as part of Fred- erick Lindemann’s S-Branch (Winston Churchill’s special statisti- cal branch) alongside fellow economists Roy Harrod and G. L. S. Shackle. Later, her interest in the Cowles Commission—which Marschak directed from 1943 to 1948—“led to her being one of the important links through which such techniques as activity analysis entered the academic scene in Britain. Her 1957 book [ Activity Anal- ysis ] and other papers made original contributions to the applica- tion of linear methods in economic analysis” (ibid.). Fundaburk 1729; New Palgrave III, p. 280. £250 [130762] 98 MANNING-SANDERS, Ruth. Martha-Wish-You-Ill. London: printed and published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1926 Octavo, pp. 16. Original marbled paper wrappers, titles in black to paper label to front cover. Negligible creasing to spine ends and tips, light foxing to paper label and contents; a very good copy of this fragile publication. first edition, one of an estimated 280 copies. Martha-Wish-You- Ill was the second of Manning-Sanders’s works published by the Hogarth Press, the first being her narrative poem Karn , published in 1922. Virginia Woolf, who described Manning-Sanders’s writing as “rather exciting and altogether most unexpected” with “a good deal of merit”, set the press herself for this work ( ODNB ).“In her late
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sixties Manning-Sanders ‘found her literary métier in the telling or retelling of folk-tales and legends for children” and published over 90 such works from 1958 until her death in 1988” (ibid.). Woolmer 102. £1,750 [131620] 99 [MARCET, Jane.] Conversations on Political Economy. London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816 Duodecimo (179 × 107 mm). Rebound to style in sprinkled calf, preserving original morocco label. Tiny foxing to initial and final leaves, a few faint creases to pages, small chip to corner of p. 29 not affecting text, else a near- fine copy. first edition of Marcet’s popular work on economics, designed for the use of schools, composed as a dialogue between a female teacher and her pupil, in which concepts of capital, labour, prop- erty, commerce and money are explored in a style suitable for the book’s youthful audience. At a time when the discipline was gener- ally deemed to be the preserve of men, Marcet’s work proved highly popular, undergoing numerous editions and helping to popularise the study of economics. Macaulay wrote that “every girl who has read Mrs. Marcet’s little dialogues on political economy could teach Montagu or Walpole many lessons in finance”. £2,250 [125362]
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