National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1945. SCARCE in the 1945 first edition and in dust jacket. Very Good, light wear to cloth at top edge, at front end page the ownership signature of Henry Oliver and the name stamp of G. J. Stolnitz, both noted economists who taught at Indiana Univerity, with marginal scholarly annotations and marking in ink by one or both men. In Good dust jacket, browned and soiled, 4" tear at spine fold, chips at spine ends and fold corners. Albert O. Hirschman (1915-2012) has been described as "one of the most original social scientists of the twentieth century" and one whose "pioneering work in development studies and his analyses of social change, the history of capitalism, and the workings of democracy" placed him squarely in the major intellectual and political debates of his times. (Albert O. Hirschman An Intellectual Biography, Michele Alacevich, Columbia University Press, 2021). Hirschman's first major publication after the end of World War II, during which Hirschman was credited with helping to save over 2,000 Jews from the clutches of Hitler's Germany. Given the billions the US is pouring into Ukraine, a subject that is as topical today as after WWII. No other copies of the 1945 FE found in current commerce. U of Calif. Press republished the book in 1981 and 2018. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.