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Influential on Karl Marx and Nietzsche
LANGE,F.A.
J.St.Mill's Ansichten über die sociale Frage und die angebliche Umwälzung der Socialwissenschaft durch Carey. Duisberg, Berlag von Falk & Lange 1866
Octavo, uncut, original publishers printed paper green upper cover, rebacked , uncut, pp.viii, 256.
£1,800
First edition by the German philosopher and sociologist Lange's[1828-1875] highly influential work. Karl Marx read the work extensively during his research on the second volume of Das Kapital and was greatly inspired by it, especially in regard to rent theory and soil exhaustion. He prepared excerpts in his notebook kept between August 1867 and September 1868.
Nietzsche described this book in a letter to Muschacke as 'without a doubt the most significant philosophical work to have appeared in the last hundred years' Nietzsche was introduced to Darwin via Lange, which became a pivotal event in the construction of his theory of the Übermensch.
"Lange was one of the originators of "physiological… Read More

LØCHEN,ARNE. Om J.Stuart Mills logik. En kritisk studie. Kristiana, Forlagt af Huseby 1885
Octavo, contemporary quarter calf and boards, spine lettered gilt, pp.x, 319, library stamp to lower blank margin of title.
First edition of this Danish critical study of Mill's Logic
Rare, BL only in copac
£200

Octavo, contemporary cloth backed boards with loss of original paper to boards, printed paper label rubbed, pp.xii, 267, without the half title, a good copy.
Blaug: Great Economists before Keynes, pp.135-137. Seligman: On some neglected British Economists, 1903, pp.46-52. Schumpeter: History of Economic Analysis, pp.464-465. See L.S.Moss: Mountifort Longfield: Irelands first Professor of Political Economy, 1976. Kress C3771. Goldsmith 28434. Not in Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books, Cambridge University Library.

FIRST EDITION by Samuel Mountifort Longfield, who was Ireland's first Professor of the Whateley Chair of Political Economy at Trinity College, Dublin.
"Longfield's general theory of value is noteworthy in that he not only puts very lucidly the influence of cost of production upon the supply side of the equation between supply and demand, but calls attention to the demand side as well...Longfield uses profits in the sense of general returns to capital, and that his theory of profits is… Read More