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“We are all Keynesians now.” 73. KEYNES, John May- nard THE GENERAL THE- ORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST AND MONEY Macmillan, 1936. First edition. 8vo. Original blue-green cloth with gilt
1936 and the international conference at Bretton Woods eight years lat- er, out of which came the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, thus permanently changing the way the world looked at the econ- omy and the role of government in society. Loosely inserted is a clipping of a newspaper review of the book from its day of publication pasted onto letter paper of Mr. A.J Tyler of the Amer- ican Steamships Lines Agency with his annotations about Keynes’s new economic ideas. PMM 423 74. JOWETT, Benjamin [translator] PLATO’S REPUBLIC The Limited Editions Club, 1944. First edition thus. Two vols. Quarter black morocco over orange paper boards, with two vignettes of Greek profiles to each cover. Gilt titles to spines. Top edge gilt, bottom untrimmed. Housed in original black slipcase. Chapter titles illustrated with woodcut medallions by Fritz Kedel. A fine set, internally bright and clean in a very good slipcase with wear to the edges. [46338] £350 A Socratic dialogue authored by Plato around 375BC. With its dis- cussion of order, justice and the character of the “just man” and “just city-state”, it is one of the world’s most influential works of philosophy and political theory.
titles to spine. Contemporary newspaper clipping of a review of the book loosely inserted. A near fine copy, with slight bumping to the corners of the lower cover. [44871] £2,500 Regarded as the most influential social science treatise of the century upon which Keynes’ “fame as the outstanding economist of his genera- tion must rest” (DNB). Inspired by the world-wide slump of 1929, as an attempt to find new methods for controlling the vagaries of the trade cycle, he “subjects the definitions and theories of the classical school of economists to a pene- trating scrutiny, and found them seriously inadequate and inaccurate” (Printing and the Mind of Man) Although The General Theory threw economists into two violently opposed camps, the book heavily influenced Roosevelt’s ‘New Deal’ of
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