1962-2018 A Collection of First Edition Volumes on Economics

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Colour Plates, First Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Five volumes. First editions. This set contains: Equitable Assurances, 1962. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, twenty black-and-white plates, and one colour plate. Collated complete. The story of Life Assurance in the experience of The Equitable Life Assurance Society 1762-1962. Written by Maurice Edward Ogborn, a British economist and author. Population Malthus: His Life and Times, 1979. With a folding genealogical table. The first full-length biography of Thomas Robert Malthus, an English economist, cleric, and scholar influential in the fields of political economy and demography, exploring his best known works. Written by Patricia James, a British economist and Fellow of the Royal Economics Society. The Life of Adam Smith, 1995. A biography of Adam Smith, a Scottish economist and philosopher who was a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. Written by Ian Simpson Ross, a Scottish academic and biographer. The Price of Scotland: Darien, Union and the Wealth of Nations, 2007. An exploration of the attempt by the Company of Scotland to establish a colony at Darien in Central America, as one of the best known episodes in late seventeenth-century Scottish history. Written by Douglas Watt, a Scottish historian. John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century, 2018. Illustrated with two double-page maps and sixteen plates. Collated complete. A study of the work and life of John Law, a Scottish-French economist and financier who served as Controller General of Finances under Philippe II, Duke of Orleans. Written by James Buchan, a Scottish novelist and historian. Previously held in the library of Hamish Riley-Smith, a British dealer, retailer, and trader in rare books and manuscripts from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries.