Man, Economy, and State - A Treatise on Economic Principles: Complete in Two Volumes

Los Angeles: Nash Publishing. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1970. Reissue. Hardcover. 0840212232 . "The first systematic treatise of economics to be published within the last fifty years. Addressed to the intelligent, educated layman as well as to the economist, this work is a brilliant and systematic exposition of the principles and doctrines of the economics of the free society. Assuming no previous knowledge of economics on the reader's part, Rothbard (1926-1995) proceeds, by a deductive chain of reasoning in which every link is made explicitly evident, to draw the conclusions logically implied in the fundamental axiom of human action... Conclusively demonstrates that 'the workings of the voluntary principle and of the free market lead inexorably to freedom, prosperity, harmony, efficiency, and order; while coercion and government intervention lead inexorably to hegemony, conflict, exploitation of man by man, inefficiency, poverty, and chaos.'" - dust jacket. "He contributes lucidity and light... [This] is in fact the most important general treatise on economic principles since Ludwig von Mises' Human Action in 1949." - Henry Hazlitt. [vi]-xviii, 462 + [iv]-ix, [1], 463-987 pp. Both volumes clean and unmarked with light wear, tightly bound in dark blue cloth lettered in gilt upon backstrips. Average wear to teale dust jackets now preserved in clear poly. First printed in 1962 by Van Nostrand, this is a quality copy of the 1970 second printing by Nash.; 8vo .