First edition. Small 8vo. 92, [4, publisher’s advertisements] pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, dust jacket (internally clean and unmarked; jacket unevenly toned and rather dust-marked minor, else a very good copy indeed) London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1964.
A short, non-technical book by the Nobel Prize winning economist James E. Meade on global inequalities in property ownership. Meade was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1977 ‘for his work on international trade as represented by the two volumes of his Theory of International Economic Policy (1951, 1955), which together have become the bible of every trade economist’ (Blaug).
