The End of Laissez-Faire

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~Original quarter cloth, printed label to spine (intact). Blue boards, faded around edges. Wear to board corners, especially top corners. Ist and 2nd impression both published July 1926. Note printed on verso of title page: ‘The following is based on the Sidney Ball Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford in 1924, and a Lecture delivered before the University of Berlin in 1926. J.M.K.’ Printed on laid paper. One of Keynes’ most influential essays, published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf at the Hogarth Press, who were close friends of Keynes and fellow members of the Bloomsbury Group. The essay reviews the development of laissez-faire capitalism from the eighteenth century onwards and critiques the doctrine as a whole, charting a middle course between recommending total freedom of the marketplace and full state intervention. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders trackable, others on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs.