First edition. Small 8vo. [8], 85, [1] pp. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, dust jacket (contents clean; very slight lean to text block, else a near fine, notably bright copy). Oxford, Basil Blackwell, Yrjö Jahnsson Lectures, 1974.
A reappraisal of Keynes’s General Theory by Nobel prize winner Sir John Hicks. Originally delivered as a series of lectures to the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation in 1973, they were revised considerably for publication. ‘The most eminent economic theorist of his generation in Britain’, Hicks was the first British scholar to win the Nobel prize in economics in 1972 (ODNB).
