KEYNES (John Maynard). Et al.
Britain's Industrial Future being the Report of the Liberal Industrial Inquiry.
INSCRIBED BY THE VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE REPORT
KEYNES (John Maynard). Et al.
Britain's Industrial Future being the Report of the Liberal Industrial Inquiry.
With a presentation inscription from Vice-Chairman of the Report, the British industrialist and politician Ernest Simon (1879-1960), in black ink to the front free endpaper: ‘to Frank Hall Esq with compliments, thanks from E.D. Simon’. SImon’s inscription has been crossed out by a later owner, one ‘DR. Wightman’, whose ownership inscription appears above on the front free endpaper along with another later indecipherable ownership inscription.
The report was also issued in yellow paper wrappers, leading it to be known as the Liberal ‘Yellow Book’. It proposed a substantial increase in the role of the state in industry, and can be seen as part of the move by the Liberal Party, started three decades earlier, away from classical laissez-faire liberalism towards modern, interventionist liberalism. John Maynard Keynes was a central figure of the committee, and a major influence on the report.
