Category: Economics

Revolution in Land

By: Abrams, Charles

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers : 1939

Seller ID: 103h1229

ISBN: B00085II0G

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

319 pages. List of sources. Index. "Presents a challenging analysis of the changing place of land in the American economy. Traces the development of the growing conflict between the land and industry, and sets forth the more fundamental principles which must be applied to find a real solution to the land problem." - Joseph Ackerman, Journal of Farm Economics, May, 1940. Writing, erasures and stamps upon front free endpaper which is peeled along fore-edge inside board. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Dust jacket not included. A worthy reference copy of this fascinating study.
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Money for All: Or the Economic Science of Money

By: Alexander, Jesse P.

Price: $795.00

Publisher: Kansas City, MO, Ramsey, Millett & Hudson : 1875

Seller ID: 313c5065

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

"National bank notes retired - legal tenders the only paper money - prosperity for every industry." - subtitle. "This little work makes no pretensions to literary merit. It was written, by the author, at intervals snatched from his other occupations as a farmer... The leading facts stated, and the great and fundamental truths of the science of money enunciated, are in accordance with the true principles of Political Economy when applied to the present conditions of America, and are believed to be sound and incontrovertible." - from Preface. Contains the following five essays: As long as Ame...
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The Money Game - How To Play It: A New Instrument of Economic Education

By: Angell, Norman

Price: $795.00

Publisher: London & Toronto, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd : 1931

Seller ID: 313a7837

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

176 pages. "The author of this book believes that you can teach the fundamental mechanism of money and banking as you teach bridge, "by playing it," and thinks this game will do it. As an innovation in teaching method the possibilities are so revolutionary that no educator can afford to ignore it. Moreover, the game is an exceedingly entertaining one; as good a card game as any; can be played by any number from five to ten, and so is well adapted to the family circle, to the business man's club, or as a novelty for the next little dinner party." - from dust jacket. Contents clean and unmar...
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The Story of Money

By: Angell, Norman

Price: $69.95

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Garden City Publishing Co. Inc. : 1929

Seller ID: 313g4145

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

411 pages. Bibliography. Footnotes. Index. Black and white plates. "A story, written for the layman, of man's experiences with the device of money: some of the outstanding experiments that he has tried with it, and the results of the experiments; some of the ideas he has had concerning it; some of the mistakes that he has made about it." - from Preface. Average wear. Bit of ink writing upon back free endpaper. Binding intact. A sound copy.
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The Babylonian Woe

By: Astle, David (Signed)

Price: $299.95

Publisher: Toronto, Self-Published (Van Coillie, Dries) : 1975

Seller ID: 313c9918

ISBN: B009JGZNNU

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

250 pages. Index. Exceptional bibliography. "A study of the origin of certain banking practices and of their effect on the events of ancient history, written in the light of the present day." - subtitle. "... Illustrates how, even in the earliest of times of which written record remains, the days of Babylonia or before, a so-called monetary science undoubtedly existed; being then, as in today, never more than an instrument by which its secret and cynical controllers wittingly influenced the destinies of individuals, Nations and Empires as to (temporary) glory or (final) disaster." - from d...
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The Wide World Magazine - An Illustrated Monthly, February (Feb.) 1899, Vol. 2, No. 10 - Strangest Horse Race on Earth / Gun Robbers of Fyzabad

By: Bahadur, Khan; Ibrahim, Syed; Quick, J.W.; Stuart-Glennie, J.S.; Metcalfe, A.E.; Turner, Samuel; Bone, W.H.; Et al

Price: $295.00

Publisher: London, George Newnes, Limited : 1899

Seller ID: 346h3098

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Fair

Pages 418-528. Features: The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont - Part VI; How Mohammedans Pray - photo-illustrated article; The Pirate of "The Ghost" - a stowaway saves a blockade-runner; Where Beasts are Baptized - astonishing ceremonies in Brittany - photo-illustrated article; The Story of an Alpine Adventure - Miss A.E. Metcalfe and Miss M. Cartwright take a wrong turn in the Swiss mountains; A Race up Mont Blanc, by Samuel Turner (with is photo); Fascinated by a Snake - photo-illustrated tale from Australia; Congo Money - fascinating photo-illustrated article showing grass mats, cowrie s...
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Germany Under Direct Controls: Economic Aspects of Industrial Disarmament 1945-1948

By: Balabkins, Nicholas

Price: $99.95

Publisher: USA, Rutgers University Press : 1964

Seller ID: 169h4295

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

xi, [3], 265 pages. Footnotes and index. "Primarily concerned with the effects of the industrial disarmament policy on Germany. Examines the role of direct controls in the execution of policy objectives in the American and British zones. The Soviet and French zones of occupation are not discussed." - Preface. Former library copy with usual markings and moderate wear to publisher's beige cloth. Dust jacket not included. Binding intact. A sound reference copy.
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Image for The Economic Development of Ceylon - Report of a Mission Organized By the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development at the Request of the Government of Ceylon - Complete in Two Volumes

The Economic Development of Ceylon - Report of a Mission Organized By the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development at the Request of the Government of Ceylon - Complete in Two Volumes

By: Baranyai, Leopold; Biaggi, Francantonio; De Fargues, Jean R.; Ellsworth, Paul T.; Gilmartin, William M.; Godwin, Francis W.; Kruithof, Arie; Luttman-Johnson, John D.M.; Mehta, Amolak R.; Phillips, John F.V.

Price: $499.95

Publisher: Ceylon, Ceylon Government Press : 1952

Seller ID: 871g2216

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

83 plus 448 pages. Twenty-four maps. Many dozens of tables, charts and graphs. Prepared by request of the Government of Ceylon to survey the development potentialities of the country with special consideration given to: Agriculture (particularly rice cultivation, mixed farming, dairying, colonization and resettlement), Irrigation, Fisheries, Forestry, Minerals, Power, Industrial development, Inland transport and shipping, vocational training, Health (including housing and water schemes), General Economics (including public finance, money and banking, savings and investment, balance of payme...
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Draining the Swamp - Monetary and Fiscal Policy Reform: The NESARA Story

By: Barnard, Harvey F[rancis]

Price: $3,500.00

Publisher: USA, NESARA Institute : 2005

Seller ID: 443h6062

ISBN-13: 9780965112406

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket

"Offers a new theory of money with specific proposals for replacing the nation's outdated monetary and tax policies. Calls for general prosperity without sacrifice, and is written in plain language. A mosaic of ideas - images from the realms of philosophy, economics, finance, history, sociology, morality, law and politics - arranged in unusual patterns. Just when you think you have the picture, a new image changes the scene. Be prepared to face the dark side - and possibly to see the light." - dust jacket. "Barnard (1941-2005) created the NESARA proposal in the 1980s and early 1990s, based ...
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The Worst Poverty: A History of Debt and Debtors

By: Barty-King, Hugh

Price: $49.95

Publisher: U.K., Budding Books : 1997

Seller ID: 429a5025

ISBN-13: 9781840150094

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

214 pages. Bibliography. Index. Black and white illustrations. "This topical and absorbing work charts the evolution of debt and debtors in Britain from the Middle Ages to the present day." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with minimal wear. Dust jacket preserved in Brodart cover. Excellent copy.
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Image for Bank of the United States - Non-Renewal of Charter: A Reprint of Chapter LVI from "Thirty Years' View; or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850

Bank of the United States - Non-Renewal of Charter: A Reprint of Chapter LVI from "Thirty Years' View; or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850

By: Benton, Thomas H.

Price: $149.95

Publisher: USA, Kasper and Horton : 1958

Seller ID: 313a2742

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

73 pages. Bookshop ink stamp upon first page. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Estimate printing date circa 1958.
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CUNA Emerges - A Third Credit Union Book

By: Bergengren, Roy F.

Price: $149.95

Publisher: USA, Credit Union National Association : 1936

Seller ID: 429a5272

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

289 pages. Index. Written during the depths of the great depression, this work was 'Designed primarily as a text book for the assistance of those who are interested to organize, to operate, or just to learn more about the type of cooperative credit society known in the United States as the 'credit union'... Recounts the beginnings of CUNA, the Credit Union National Association." - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. Few closed tears to dust jacket which bears average wear and is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Nice copy.
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The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath

By: Bernanke, Ben S. (Signed)

Price: $295.00

Publisher: USA, Norton : 2015

Seller ID: 443h1765

ISBN-13: 9780393247213

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Signed and inscribed by Ben Bernanke upon half-title page. "Recounts and explains the worst financial crisis and economic slump in America since the Great Depression, providing an insider's account of the policy response." - dust jacket. 610 pages. Selected Bibliography. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath TARP Bailout Too Big To Fail Banks Bear Stearns Lehman Brothers The Fed Feder...
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Capital and Interest, A Critical History of Economical Theory

By: Bhm-Bawerk, Eugen V.; Smart, William [Translator]

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co. : 1890

Seller ID: 169h5163

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Prior owner's name, "Edw. D. Jones" written atop title page - possibly the founder of Edward Jones Investments, founded in St. Louis in 1922. Prior owner's small initials (E.D.J.) and date inked atop first blank leaf. pp. [v], vi-xlv, [2], 2-431. Index. Translated from the German. "While it would be bold to affirm that Professor Bhm-Bawerk [1851-1914] has said the last word on the theory of Interest, his book must be regarded as one with which all subsequent writers will have to reckon." - Translator's Preface. Of the first edition, at p.22 Batson wrote "The first large treatise produce...
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A Self-Reliant Future for Canada

By: Biddell, J. L.

Price: $199.95

Publisher: Canada, LNC : 1993

Seller ID: 429a5572

ISBN-13: 9780921842330

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

315 pages. "...Outlines nothing less than a revolutionary strategy to resolve our national debt problem and put the unemployed back to work." - Peter C. Newman. Clean and unmarked with minimal wear. Very nice copy of this important and, unfortunately, unheeded work.
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The Case of the Tearful Tycoon: An Answer to J.V. Clyne

By: Bjarnason, Emil

Price: $79.95

Publisher: Vancouver, B.C., Trade Union Research Bureau : 1965

Seller ID: 713c6146

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

16 pages. Undated. Circa 1960s. "Labour CANNOT price itself out of the World Market" - from front cover. The trade union movement rebuts J.V. Clyne's contention that "Wages are too high". Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy.
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The Economics of Inflation: A Study of Currency Depreciation in Post-War Germany 1914-1923: Sir Halley Stewart Publications IV

By: Bresciani-Turroni, Costantino (Savers, Millicent: Translator) Robbins, Lionel: Foreward

Price: $950.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd. : 1953

Seller ID: 313a4266

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

464 pages. Index. "In the analysis of the causes and effects of the depreciation of the German mark I have used, besides German official publications and economic articles in some of the leading newspapers... personal observations made during a long stay in Germany from 1920 to 1929, first as a member of Berlin staff of the Reparations Commission; than as head of the German Exports Control, which was instituted in 1921 by the Committee of Guarantees; and lastly as economic advisor to the Agent-General of Reparations." - from Preface to the English Edition. Usual library markings, some stroke...
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The Economics of Inflation - A Study of Currency Depreciation in Post-War Germany 1914-1923 - Sir Halley Stewart Publications IV

By: Bresciani-Turroni, Costantino; Sayers, Millicent E. (Translator); Robbins, Lionel (Foreword)

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: New York, Barnes & Noble Inc. : 1937

Seller ID: 324g0645

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

464 pages. Index. Originally published in Italian in 1931. This first English edition substantially revised. Inside front board is the bookplate of M.L. Burstein, "One of the sharpest minds in economics of the last century" - from online reference. "The depreciation of the mark of 1914-1923, which is the subject of this work, is one of the outstanding episodes in the history of the twentieth century. Not only by reason of its magnitude but also by reason of its effects, it looms large on our horizon. It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and, next probably to the Great ...
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Progress and the Invisible Hand : The Philosophy and Economics of Human Advance

By: Bronk, Richard

Price: $49.95

Publisher: UK, Warner : 1999

Seller ID: 429a6093

ISBN-13: 9780751526608

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

265 pages. Index. "Argues that if the environment is to be safeguarded and poverty minimised, there remains an overriding need for the free market to be supported by a strong framework of morality, social cohesion and rational government intervention." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Quality copy.
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The Profit Parasites

By: Bronson, Harold E.

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Canada, Beat Raven Publishers : 1986

Seller ID: 313a7821

ISBN-13: 9780921231004

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

333 pages. Index. "How the robot revolution must end the profit system, enabling us to choose global prosperity rathern than global destruction." - from title page. Prior owner's name atop title page else clean and unmarked with average wear externally. Binding intact.
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Category: Economics