The End of Laissez-Faire.
by KEYNES, John Maynard
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About This Item
London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press,, 1926. First edition, first impression, signed by Frances Partridge (1900-2004) on the front free endpaper. Partridge, a diarist and author, was the last surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group. From 1926, she lived with, and later married, Ralph Partridge, who had until then been in a complex relationship with Dora Carrington and Lytton Strachey. Her friendship with Keynes began through her position at Birrell & Garnett, the favoured bookshop of the Bloomsbury Group. Keynes's slender volume is based on the Sidney Ball lecture he delivered at Oxford in 1924, as well as a rewritten version given at Berlin in 1926. It offers an historical analysis of laissez-faire economic systems and the reasons they are impractical for modern societies. "Keynes's epitaph for laissez-faire is a revealing and neglected pamphlet that documents his early conversion to the idea of a managed economy. He was interested in 'possible improvements in the techniques of western capitalism by the agency of collective action.' He admitted that 'material progress between 1750 and 1850 came from individual initiative, and owed almost nothing to the direct influence of organised society as a whole,' and that 'Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of opinion - how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised as powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and through them, the events of history.' Nevertheless, he rejected the general principles of laissez-faire and recommended a formidable extension of the agenda of government" (Hartwell, pp. 12ff). Octavo. Original green quarter cloth, printed spine label, blue paper-covered sides. Light wear and sunning, minor loss to spine affecting text, faint browning to endpapers and contents: a very good copy. Moggridge C6; Woolmer 97. Ronald Max Hartwell, A History of the Mont Pelerin Society, 1995.
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- Peter Harrington (GB)
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- Title
- The End of Laissez-Faire.
- Author
- KEYNES, John Maynard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press,
- Date Published
- 1926
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