Essays in Biography.
KEYNES (John Maynard).

Essays in Biography.

First edition. 8vo. x, 318, [2] pp. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt (contents clean and fresh; only the merest hint of faint shelf wear to tips of spine and corners, else a near fine, notably bright copy). London, MacMillan & Co., Limited, 1933.

£450.00

A collection of biographical sketches of fifteen famous scientists, economists and statesmen, including Winston Churchill, Lloyd George, Edwin Montagu, Robert Malthus, Alfred Marshall, F. Y. Edgeworth, and F. P. Ramsey. Of particular note is Keynes’s essay on Thomas Robert Malthus, being the source of his infamous statement ‘Economics is a very dangerous science’.

Moggridge, A 9.1.1.

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