The Economist as Preacher and Other Essays.

STIGLER (George J.)

The Economist as Preacher and Other Essays.

INSCRIBED BY ONE NOBEL LAUREATE TO ANOTHER

First edition, first printing. 8vo. vii, [1], 259, [1] pp. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (just a hint of faint spotting to top edge, contents clean and fresh; only minor creasing to extremities, else a fine copy). Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1982.

£975.00

A fine association copy, presented from one Nobel Laureate to another, inscribed by the author to the Cambridge economist Sir Richard Stone in black ink to the front free endpaper: ‘To Dick Stone with apologies for any occasional felicity of expression George J. Stigler 12/23/82’.

A collection of essays variously responding to the relationship between economics and ethics by the great American economist George J. Stigler, recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize for economics “for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation”, and a key leader of the Chicago School along with Milton Friedman.

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