Search Results: Economics from Pazzo Books

London: For the Proprietors, 1763. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Full Contemporary polished calf, corners and spine ends a little bumped, joints splitting but binding still intact. Lacking the front endpaper, otherwise complete. Scattered foxing and browning. A book with substantial importance to 18th century colonial trade - as evidenced by the 24 page subscriber list. First published in 1761. 24, xvi, 464. Howes 697, Sabin 105606 Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Economics; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 041904.

Londres (Paris), 1767. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Contemporary mottled calf, small stain to rear board, front hinge cracked and a little tender but holding, corners bumped. Bright internally - page 92/3 with a tear to the margin just touching some letters but not affecting sense. Old note on title page referencing a 1779 brochure and with two old notes in in a similar hand laid in. Engraved preface. (12), xii, 408pp Graslin is most famous for savaging the ideas of the physiocrats just before the birth of classical economics, but also advanced important ideas on taxation, the value of non-agricultural labor, and the intrinsic value of objects ( "increases and decreases with the needs of man, and disappears with him"). The imprint is almost certainly false - likey printed in Paris. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Economics; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 047119.

Paris: Libraires Associés, 1771. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Contemporary full calf, modest wear and rubbing, surface marks to cover, rear joint a little weak and binding slightly cracked in the center of the text block, but sound overall. Scattered light foxing and browning internally. With an engraved frontis and engraved instruction sheet at front. Unpaginated - privilege and ads at rear. A nice copy of Barreme's tables which were widely used and typically used up. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Economics; History. Inventory No: 045381.

Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Good Condition. Original full calf, worn at edges and hinges , slight bowing to covers. Internally with dampstains to upper corner, heavy browning to half title and final pages, and pervasive but mostly mild staining throughout not affecting legibility. Nearly very good, overall. viii, 472pp. Though largely overlooked at the time of publication, it is in the principles that Keynes found "scientific explanation of unemployment" and that "the hundred-year domination of Ricardo over Malthus had been a disaster for the progress of economics" (ODNB). Malthus's theory that spending on both public works and private luxuries could alleviate recessions and downturns by creating demand and prosperity were well ahead of his time. This is the first US edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Economics; Americana. Inventory No: 048324.

1944. Cloth. Good. Withdrawn from Harvard Univiversity with usual marks; lightly used, text unmarked. 2 volumes reproducing exhibits 1-36 before the national War Board, Steel Panel. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation et al and United Steel-Workers of America. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Economics; Inventory No: 043740.

Strasbourg: F.G. Levrault, 1819. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Very Good Condition. Quarter leather over elaborately marbled boards, spine rubbed, lettering piece damaged, small paper lifts to boards near spine; clean internally. 212pp with 20 leaves of model letters at the rear, a few folding. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Economics; Inventory No: 045118.