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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by Irving Fisher to Senator Claude A. Swanson upon front free endpaper. "Claude Augustus Swanson (1862-1939) Virginia Democrat who served as U.S. representative (1893-1906), Governor (1906-1910), and U.S. Senator (1910-1933), before becoming U.S. Secretary of the Navy under FDR from 1933 until his death." - Wikipedia. "This little book aims to review dispassionately the whole question of our American attitude toward world affairs following the World War, and to establish certain conclusions which all who are willing to face the facts can accept." - Preface. Fisher concludes that "the United States should enter the League of Nations for many reasons of self-interest, namely i) to keep foreign markets for our goods ii) to enable Europe to repay some of its US debts iii) to maintain international goodwill iv) to avoid the need for a costly army and navy and, most importantly, v) to avoid wars." - pages 203-4. "Joseph Schumpeter described Irving Fisher (1867-1947) as 'the greatest economist the United States has ever produced', an assessment later repeated by James Tobin and Milton Friedman." - Wikipedia. xvi, 268 pp. Bibliography and index. Seven black and white illustrations. Clean, tight and unmarked with moderate wear. No dust jacket. Rubbing to backstrip gilt lettering, less so to front board. A well-preserved example with a prestigious provenance. Fisher P-735.; 8vo; Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Stable Money Association gift bookplate inside front board is signed by Irving Fisher, James Rand, Jr., and Frederic A. Delano. Delano [1863-1953] was uncle to FDR, President of the Stable Money Association and was appointed to serve on the first Board of the Federal Reserve by Woodrow Wilson. James Rand Jr. [1886-1968] was Chairman of the Committee For the Nation and a prominent American businessman. This copy inscribed to Ethan Bates Stanley who was President of the American Laundry Machinery Company. pp. [vi], vii-xxiii, 484. Selected bibliography. Index. Extensive footnotes. "The present book is intended to be not so much a history of [monetary] catastrophes, due to unstable money and endured by unsuspecting millions subject to the money illusion, but rather a history of the efforts of a few to remedy or prevent such catastrophies." - xxi. Pages 443-484 constitute a lengthy list of Stable Money Pioneers, individuals who supported the movement. Corporate affiliations are included for most of these names, thus the list reads like a corporate Who's Who of America. Dust jacket not included. Average wear to publisher's pebbled navy cloth. Binding sound. Bookseller ink stamp inside front board. 21 x 14.5cm. Rist p.379, Cohen p.186, Fisher M-2058,; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Monetary Policy, Irving Fisher, Frederic A. Delano, Ethan Bates Stanley, Stable Money Movement, Committee For the Nation, Stable Money, Federal Reserve System, Gold Standard, London Economic Conference, Weimar Hyperinflation, Wiemar, Stable Money League,; Signed by Author(s).…