First edition. Large 8vo. xvi, 768 pp. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (faint partial offsetting to endpapers, recent ownership inscription to half title, contents otherwise generally clean and unmarked; jacket slightly edge worn, spine panel toned with minor loss at foot, notwithstanding a very good copy indeed). London, Macmillan and Co Ltd, 1956.
A highly influential ‘text on economic theory, written in mathematical terms, which takes account of the growth of econometrics and the use of increasingly sophisticated mathematics by economists. Allen was an economic statistician, mathematical economist and econometrician of exceptional competence and breadth of knowledge’ (New Palgrave).
