First edition. 8vo. xv, [1], 99, [1] pp. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, dust jacket (contents clean and unmarked; spine panel of jacket slightly faded, otherwise a very good copy). Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1980.
Originally delivered as a series of lectures to the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation in 1978, then revised and expanded for the present book edition. Tobin was awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences ‘for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices’.
