First edition. 8vo. viii, 328 pp. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. A very fine copy. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
The rare first edition of this collection of essays by the distinguished American economic historian Charles P. Kindleberger (1910-2003) assembled as ‘complement’ to his Financial History of Western Europe (1984), ‘one of the principal themes’ of which ‘was the dialectic between monetarism and Keynesianism’ (p. 1).