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On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation by Ricardo,David - 1817

by Ricardo,David

On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation by Ricardo,David - 1817

On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

by Ricardo,David

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Provenance: engraved bookplate Briglands Perthshire home of J.A.Clyde, (1863-1944) advocate. He was Lord President from 1920 until 1935 with the title of Lord Clyde.

Printing & the Mind of Man 277. Kress B7029. Goldsmith 21734. Sraffa 5a.

FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT WORKS IN ECONOMICS OF THE 19TH CENTURY. The fundamental groundwork of the Principles is based on the theory that given free competition in trade, the exchange value of commodities will be determined by the amount of labour expended in production. This thesis was reinforced by Ricardo's theory of distribution in which he argued that the demand for food determines the margin of cultivation; this margin determines rent; the amount necessary to maintain the labourer determines wages; the difference between the amount produced by a given quantity of labour determines profit. Ricardo was the principle founder of the classical school of economics. His main doctrines were expounded by his disciples James Mill and McCulloch and accepted by John Stuart Mill. David Ricardo's exact mathematical approach and deductive methods have influenced succeeding generations of economists, especially in the fields of currency and banking.

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Lectures on Political Economy, delivered in Trinity and Michaelmas Terms, 1833.
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Blaug: Great Economists before Keynes, pp.135-137. Seligman: On some neglected British Economists, 1903, pp.46-52. Schumpeter: History of Economic Analysis, pp.464-465. See L.S.Moss: Mountifort Longfield: Irelands first Professor of Political Economy, 1976. Kress C3771. Goldsmith 28434. Not in Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books, Cambridge University Library.

FIRST EDITION by Samuel Mountifort Longfield, who was Ireland's first Professor of the Whateley Chair of Political Economy at Trinity College, Dublin.
"Longfield's general theory of value is noteworthy in that he not only puts very lucidly the influence of cost of production upon the supply side of the equation between supply and demand, but calls attention to the demand side as well...Longfield uses profits in the sense of general returns to capital, and that his theory of profits is… Read More
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Essai sur le Principe de Population…3me edition française,...

Essai sur le Principe de Population…3me edition française, trés-augmentée.

by Malthus,T.R.

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Third edition in French translated from the fifth English edition of 1817 by Pierre Prevost and his son G.Prevost. Previous French editions were published in 1809 and 1823.
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An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy

An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy

by STEUART,SIR JAMES

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Kress 6760. Goldsmith 10611. Higgs 4854. Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, pp.241-242. Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, p.176.

First Dublin edition. The first important English work on political economy. James Steuart (1712-1780) is represented as someone who produced a systematic treatment of economics, but in pre-Physiocratic form. Although his book was first published in 1767, the main elements of the argument were established in isolation in Germany in the late 1750’s. The Principles is dominated by a concern with a socio-economic system in a situation where different national economies have different growth rates. Both perspectives ensured that the book was largely concerned with matters of… Read More
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. New Edition in Four Volumes....
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. New Edition in Four Volumes. Embellished with an Elegant Head of the Author. Embellished with an Elegant Head of the Author.

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Autograph letter signed to John Nicolaus Trübner 1865

Autograph letter signed to John Nicolaus Trübner 1865: Mill’s instructions to his publisher to send 24 presentation copies

by John Stuart Mill

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Octavo, 10.7 x 17.0 cm, 4 pages in ink, checks and encilled x's next to some names and docketed on top of fourth page J.S. Mill Sept.13/65.£4,000 [plus VAT at 20% if applicable]Newly discovered letter by John Stuart Mill from Berlin to his publisher John Nicolaus Trübner, publisher of Auguste Comte and Positivism 1865, giving instructions to send presentation copies on publication to 23 people and 1 institute providing names and addresses:George Grote [1794-1871] banker and historian of Greece and lifelong associate of Mill. Alexander Bain [1818-1903] philosopher, first biographer of Mill. W.J.Thornton [1813-1880] author, employee of East India Co. Friend and adherent of Mill's. Theodor Gomperz [1832-1912] Austrian philosopher & philologist, supervised translation of Mill's works into German. Max Kyllmann [1832-1867] native of Germany, founder of Union & Emancipation Society. Richard Congreve [1819-1899] founded a Positivist community in London. J.E.Cairnes [1823-1875] economist, Whately Professor… Read More
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Lectures on Political Economy, delivered in Trinity and Michaelmas Terms, 1833.
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Lectures on Political Economy, delivered in Trinity and Michaelmas Terms, 1833.

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Octavo, contemporary cloth backed boards with loss of original paper to boards, printed paper label rubbed, pp.xii, 267, without the half title, a good copy.
Blaug: Great Economists before Keynes, pp.135-137. Seligman: On some neglected British Economists, 1903, pp.46-52. Schumpeter: History of Economic Analysis, pp.464-465. See L.S.Moss: Mountifort Longfield: Irelands first Professor of Political Economy, 1976. Kress C3771. Goldsmith 28434. Not in Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books, Cambridge University Library.

FIRST EDITION by Samuel Mountifort Longfield, who was Ireland's first Professor of the Whateley Chair of Political Economy at Trinity College, Dublin.
"Longfield's general theory of value is noteworthy in that he not only puts very lucidly the influence of cost of production upon the supply side of the equation between supply and demand, but calls attention to the demand side as well...Longfield uses profits in the sense of general returns to capital, and that his theory of profits is… Read More
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Essai sur le Principe de Population…3me edition française,...

Essai sur le Principe de Population…3me edition française, trés-augmentée.

by Malthus,T.R.

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Third edition in French translated from the fifth English edition of 1817 by Pierre Prevost and his son G.Prevost. Previous French editions were published in 1809 and 1823.
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An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy

An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy

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Kress 6760. Goldsmith 10611. Higgs 4854. Blaug, Great Economists before Keynes, pp.241-242. Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis, p.176.

First Dublin edition. The first important English work on political economy. James Steuart (1712-1780) is represented as someone who produced a systematic treatment of economics, but in pre-Physiocratic form. Although his book was first published in 1767, the main elements of the argument were established in isolation in Germany in the late 1750’s. The Principles is dominated by a concern with a socio-economic system in a situation where different national economies have different growth rates. Both perspectives ensured that the book was largely concerned with matters of… Read More
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. New Edition in Four Volumes....
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Vanberblue, p.13
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Autograph letter signed to John Nicolaus Trübner 1865

Autograph letter signed to John Nicolaus Trübner 1865: Mill’s instructions to his publisher to send 24 presentation copies

by John Stuart Mill

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Octavo, 10.7 x 17.0 cm, 4 pages in ink, checks and encilled x's next to some names and docketed on top of fourth page J.S. Mill Sept.13/65.£4,000 [plus VAT at 20% if applicable]Newly discovered letter by John Stuart Mill from Berlin to his publisher John Nicolaus Trübner, publisher of Auguste Comte and Positivism 1865, giving instructions to send presentation copies on publication to 23 people and 1 institute providing names and addresses:George Grote [1794-1871] banker and historian of Greece and lifelong associate of Mill. Alexander Bain [1818-1903] philosopher, first biographer of Mill. W.J.Thornton [1813-1880] author, employee of East India Co. Friend and adherent of Mill's. Theodor Gomperz [1832-1912] Austrian philosopher & philologist, supervised translation of Mill's works into German. Max Kyllmann [1832-1867] native of Germany, founder of Union & Emancipation Society. Richard Congreve [1819-1899] founded a Positivist community in London. J.E.Cairnes [1823-1875] economist, Whately Professor… Read More
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From Capitalism to Socialism: Day to Day Pamphlets No. 8
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From Capitalism to Socialism: Day to Day Pamphlets No. 8

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Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London, 1932, Very Good Softcover, 53 pages, 5" x 7.25", crease on front cover, slight edgewear, otherwise clean and tight. John A. Hobson (1858 - 1940), was an English economist, social scientist and critic of imperialism.
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Worlds Revealed - The Dawn of Japanese and American Exchange

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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Goldrush Days With Mark Twain, Illustrated with Woodcuts By Henry J. Glintenkamp

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William R. Gillis. Goldrush Days with Mark Twain (H. Glintenkamp woodcuts). Copyright 1930. Albert & Charles Boni, NY. With an into by Cyril Clemens. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS 6 woodcut illustrations included, Twain frontis (Three old friends), and 5 other historic and realistic woodcut illustrations. MEMOIRS. HISTORY OF NEVADA GOLDRUSH. Summary: Mr. Gillis was a friend of American author/humorist Mark Twain and was with him at Virginia, Nevada in the Goldrush days. In 1859 placer miners in the Great Basin discovered the largest gold and silver strike that had happened in the United States up until that time. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS. Used. Good- Condition. 264 pages. Used. Good condition. First few pages are loose. Frontis is still affixed to binding. Green cloth boards gold titling. No titles left on spine. Spine is sunned.
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The Polynesian Triangle

The Polynesian Triangle

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At the Bottom of the Ladder
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At the Bottom of the Ladder

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The Bengali Intellectual Tradition: From Rammohun Ray to Dhirendranath Sen

The Bengali Intellectual Tradition: From Rammohun Ray to Dhirendranath Sen

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Ten Pamphlets (Conservatism, Big Business, Ethics, Bankruptcy, Americanism, Free Enterprise,...
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Ten Pamphlets (Conservatism, Big Business, Ethics, Bankruptcy, Americanism, Free Enterprise, Faith and Force, New Frontier, Antitrust, Affluence)

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Each of these is an offprint pamphlet in stapled wraps of an earlier publication, speech, or lecture by the authors. Condition varies from Very Good to Near Fine depending upon degree of age toning present. All ten are housed in a Fine, green vinyl "Objectivist" binder. The titles by Rand are: Textbook of Americanism; Notes on the History of American Free Enterprise; Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World; Conservatism: An Obituary; Americas' Persecuted Minority: Big Business; The Objectivist Ethics; The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Our Age; and The Fascist New Frontier. Title by Greenspan is Antitrust and that by Reisman is The Revolt Against Affluence: Galbraith's Neo-Feudalism. The two pamphlets that were published by the Institute have had reference to it lined out and have been stamped to indicate publication by The Objectivist.
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GRAND HOTEL BY VICKI BAUM. ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. Also published in the German language as Menchen Im Hotel. Used. Good Condition. No DJ is included. Bright pages. STATED FIRST EDITION. Copyright page states: "All rights reserved. First published 1930" Geoffrey Bles Publishers, London. Original source material for the famous film of the same name.
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