Chamberlain john foreword (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is bumped and rubbed along top and bottom edges with a one inch tear at top back edge near corner and two shorter tears at bottom front edge near spine. 189 pages with index and bibliography.…

Blue Cloth. Zustand: Good. No DJ. First American Edition. Xi, 250 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. First Printing, 1944. Light Wear With A Single Tiny Point Of Fraying At Base Of Spine; Spine Gilt All Present And Lettering All Clear, Spine Cloth A Little Faded. Covers Clean With Some Loss Of Color In A Thin Line And In A Small Spot On Front Cover. Publisher's Red Top Stain Without Spotting. Pages Just A Little Aged, Even Aging To Endpapers, No Foxing. No Names, A Few Pencil Marks In Text.The Ultimate Academic Statement That Government Will Not Offer Protection Against Commercial Bullies, Polluters, Liars And Sociopaths Of All Kinds, Arguing That This Passivity Is Somehow In The Best Interests Of The People; Also The Ultimate Statement That Academic Economists Are Somehow Experts In The Determination And Evaluation Of What Those Best Interests Are ( Otherwise They Could Not Make This Recommendation For Passivity!) The Epitome Of Specious Reasoning, Of Immense Appeal To Those For Whom Specious Reasoning In The Public Sphere Is Very Much In Their Best (Personal) Interests. However, The Book Also Rightfully Directs Attention To The Sociopathy Of Government Itself, And Its Pervasive Ignorance, Immorality, And Incompetence, Which Any Review Of 10,000 Years Of Human History Will Fully Support. Unfortunately, Hayek Cannot Escape His Own Role As A Sophistic Academic Interpreter Of Economics For The Masses, Promoting The Sole Interest Of The Ruler, As Has Occurred Also For 10,000 Years.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. Third Impression. Selected by both the New York Public Library and The Times Literary Supplement [London] as one of the 100 most influential books of the 20th century. Warned the free nations that the extended collectivism toward which they were gradually veering was incompatible with democracy, and that social planning, as interpreted then, might eventually cause the end of all individual freedom, political as well as economic. xii, 250 p. Index. Third printing from October 1944, a month after the first printing. Moderate peripheral tanning to clean and unmarked contents. Binding intact. Average wear and some sunning to publisher's blue cloth. Includes new replica of the 6th printing dust jacket preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this most prescient work. Cody & Ostrem B-6, Machlup B-6, Pressman [2e] p.180. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The Road To Serfdom Liberty Freedom Lliberterian Von Mises austrian School Economics Monetary Theorist Banking Free Most Influential Books 20th Century. Illustrated by King, Kathleen (illustrator).…

Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. xii, 250 pp., printed on wartime economy paper. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine, red topstain. Very Good+ with tarnishing to spine gilt, light wear to extremities, and light mottling to cloth. Several small stains to fore edge of textblock, light foxing and offsetting to endpapers. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with diagonal creases to flaps, light foxing, toning, and soiling, and moderate wear including chipping at spine ends and 3 small holes to spine panel. The classic liberal account warning against tyrannical government control of the economy, in the scarce original dust jacket.…