First edition. 8vo. 293, [1] pp. Original light blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, dust jacket (small amount of faint spotting to edges of text block, jacket price clipped, notwithstanding a very good copy). London, Faber and Faber, 1978.
A collection of articles, speeches, and lectures concerned with economic and financial aspects of public policy by the economist, civil servant and banker Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden (1907-2005). The title essay on ‘The Uses and Abuses of Economics’ was originally delivered as the 1968 Sidney Ball Lecture.
