First US edition. 8vo. vi, [2], 206 pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (internally completely clean and unmarked; spine panel of jacket slightly faded, some trivial wear and a few tiny nicks to extremitites, still an excellent copy overall). Chicago, Illinois; The University of Chicago Press, 1951.
One of the principal political works by the Hungarian-born chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi (1891-1976), a collection of essays outlining his critique of centralised economic planning and his concept of a ‘free society’.
